I am not really surprised about the articles I read on Wikipedia about NPR and Wired. I have always heard Wikipedia was a site that anyone could post or edit information on. Well, there is a tracking system which was put in place by Virgil Griffith, and apparently previous systems were set in place before this one. So someone says, who knows if that is the truth!! This device can track who submits or edits information and from where. This could be useful, however, someone could just go to a friends house and submit information if it was important enough to keep the source a secret.
Of course Wal-Mart and companies of that sort are entering information to make themselves look good. It is easy to do and a lot of people believe whatever they read on the Internet. At the present time Wikipedia can not be trusted and will not be able to be trusted until it is further tested and filtered.
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