The Anti Wikipedia Resource

"Truth based on who edits last"

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone with an Internet connection, regardless of age, education or experience. The average person is completely unaware that what they may be reading on a Wikipedia page could be completely false or intentionally misleading. And the only way to verify the information posted to Wikipedia is to independently research the subject from a reputable source. Wikipedia is thus broken by design and "truth" is simply determined by who edits last.

The Truth According To Wikipedia (48 min)

The Cult of the Amateur (Andrew Keen, 2007)

The Faith-Based Encyclopedia (Robert McHenry, Former Editor in Chief, the Encyclopedia Britannica)
The Wikipedia FAQK (Wired)
The Wikification of Knowledge (John C. Dvorak, PC Mag)
Wikipedia: Stop citing our site (CNET News)

Controversy:
A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side (The New York Times)
- Bogus boy's departure puts trivia at risk (The Register)
- Fake Wikipedia prof altered 20,000 entries (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
- Wikipedia 'expert' lied about qualifications (The Inquirer)
- Wikipedia 'professor' is 24-year-old college dropout (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
A false Wikipedia 'biography' (USA Today)
- Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar (Canada Free Press)
A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source (The New York Times)
Appeals court smacks down judge for relying on Wikipedia (ArsTechnica)
- Asylum-Seeker Rejected Based On Wikipedia, Appeals Court Reverts (Wired)
Australian politicians 'doctor Wikipedia entries' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
- Howard row over Wikipedia edits (BBC)
CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits (Reuters)
Congress caught making false entries in Wikipedia (CNET News)
Dutch Justice Ministry to Block 30,000 Workers From Using Wikipedia (FOX News)
Dutch Royals Caught Revising Wikipedia (FOX News)
Falling exam passes blamed on Wikipedia 'littered with inaccuracies' (The Scotsman, UK)
- Wackypedia blamed for Scotland's falling exam results (The Inquirer)
Insider Editing at Wikipedia (The New York Times)
- Wikipedia founder modifies his bio (CNET News)
Judges told repeatedly to stop using Wikipedia (ArsTechnica)
- No judicial notice for Wikipedia (ZDNet)
'Knight decorated for bravery' exposed as footsoldier in call centre's front line (The Time, UK)
- Meet The Real Sir Walter Mitty (Daily Record, UK)
- Mcilwraith Entry in Wikipedia (Daily Record, UK)
Left in Control of Wikipedia (NewsMax)
Online encyclopedia offline in China (USA Today)
- China Lifts Wikipedia Ban, but Some Topics Remain Blocked (The New York Times)
- Who Did What in China’s Past? Look It Up, or Maybe Not (The New York Times)
School officials unite in banning Wikipedia (The Seattle Times)
- Wikipedia more dangerous than crack (The Inquirer)
Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits (The New York Times)
Wikipedia attacked by Nazis (The Inquirer)
- Website denigrates Wiesenthal (The Age, Australia)
Wikipedia ban for disruptive professor (The Guardian, UK)
Wikipedia banned from UCSC class (Vallejo Times Hearald)
Wikipedia brands Wikia as spam (Valleywag)
Wikipedia "broken beyond repair", co-founder says (The Inquirer)
Wikipedia Entry on Ken Lay Mighty Confused for 45 Minutes (FOX News)
Wikipedia Falsely Reports Sinbad's Death (The Washington Post)
Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems (The Register)
Wikipedia lambasted for plagiarism (The Inquirer)
Wikipedia used to spread malicious code (USA Today)
- Wikipedia gives you malware (The Inquirer)
Wikipedia 'Vandalism' Entry Vandalized (Information Week)
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales in donations row (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
- More woes for Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales (The Age, Australia)
Wikiscanner reveals source of edits (Taipei Times)

"A UN computer is identified as the source of an edit that calls a respected Italian journalist a promiscuous racist, Wikiscanner also identified a BBC computer as being used to change US President George W. Bush's middle name from "Walker" to "Wanker." A computer belonging to Reuters news service is listed as adding "mass murderer" to a Wikipedia description of Bush."

Kid Friendly:
Erik Möller, No. 2 at Wikipedia, a defender of pedophilia (Valleywag)
- Wikipedia leader Erik Möller: "Children are pornography" (Valleywag)
- Wikipedia's porn-loving No. 2 and his abiding concern for the children (Valleywag)
- Wikipedia's Erik Möller on the history of child sexual abuse: All Greek to him! (Valleywag)
- Why Sue Gardner hired a pedophilia supporter to run Wikipedia (Valleywag)
Is Wikipedia wicked porn? (WorldNetDaily)
- Wikipedia debates kiddie porn action (WorldNetDaily)
- FBI investigates 'Wikipedophilia' (WorldNetDaily)
Violent threats on Wikipedia page went unchecked (Los Angeles Times)
Wikipedia publishes suicide instructions (WorldNetDaily)

Global Warming:
Wikipedia's Zealots (Financial Post, Canada)
- The Real Climate Martians (Financial Post, Canada)
- The Opinionator (Financial Post, Canada)
Wikipropaganda On Global Warming (CBS News)

Nature's Flawed Study:
Fatally Flawed: Refuting the recent study on encyclopedic accuracy by the journal Nature (PDF) (Britannica)
Nature's Flawed Study of Wikipedia's Quality (Nicholas Carr, M.A. English literature, Harvard University)

"It is not one of the peer-reviewed, expert-written research articles for which the journal is renowned. (UPDATE: I confirmed this with the article's author, Jim Giles. In an e-mail to me, he wrote, "The article appeared in the news section and is a piece of journalism, so it did not go through the normal peer review process that we use when considering academic papers.") Rather, it's a fairly short, staff-written piece based on an informal survey carried out by a group of Nature reporters."

Nature mag cooked Wikipedia study (The Register)
Wikipedia study 'fatally flawed' (BBC)

Web 2.0:
Web 2.0 Baloney (John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine)
The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator
The Web 2.0 Company Name Generator

The Wikipedia Paradox

1. At the time that you are looking at a page how do you determine it's level of accuracy?

2. How do you determine if a page is "good editor" corrected or "bad editor" inaccurate?

3. Who decides who a "good editor" is? How are their qualifications determined?

4. What is the time frame for a "good editor" to correct a page and how is this time frame determined?

5. If more then one "good editor" wants to make completely different changes to a page who wins? Could it be the last one who edited it? But which is the truth?

6. If more then one person is "watching" a topic for changes and they both want to make completely different changes to a page who wins? Could it be the last one who edited it? But which is the truth?

7. Are there more expert or non-expert people with Internet connections on a certain subject that can edit that subject's Wikipedia page?

8. With no value assigned to level of expertise for editors per Wikipedia page how is the accuracy of the edits determined?

9. How is a "neutral point of view" determined on Wikipedia pages and who makes this decision? Could it be the person who edited it last? How is this a "neutral point of view"?

10. If Wikipedia is so accurate then why would anyone ever need to make corrections to it?