Thursday, September 25, 2008

The reliability of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Lots of companies and organizations have been going on and changing or deleting some of the information, to make themselves look better. Virgil Griffith offers a database that can be searched and find out who edited what on Wikipedia. With companies and organizations changing things, what accuracy does wikipedia have? Can Wikipedia ever be trusted? Wired magazine said they have 100% of the info with 90% the accuracy. On the NPR pod cast, they believed it will have a positive affect and will make it better. Now people know that it can be traced, they will most than likely not doctor up the information. When things get worked out over a period of time I believe it can be a trusted site!

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