Friday, May 29, 2015

Experiment concludes most misinformation inserted into wikipedia may persist/

wikipediocracy.com/2015/04/13/experiment-concludes-most-misinformation-inserted-into-wikipedia-may-persist/

A months-long experiment to deliberately insert misinformation into 30 different Wikipedia articles has been brought to an end ... In 63% of cases, the phoney information persisted not for minutes or hours, but for weeks and months. And at the end, his attempts to fix Wikipedia back to its previous state were halted by a Wikipedia administrator! :) Read to see why Wikipedia’s purported “self-correcting” prowess is more myth than reality.

On the day when Wikipedia's founder has been given a sycophantic uncritical interview on radio 4, agree with the commenter on this link who says "A well written and well conceived test of Wikipedia standards. Hopefully 60 Minutes will give you equal time." He has spotted whose side the media is on, not the side of fair grassroots democracy.

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