October 5, 2009

WIRED by Virgil Griffith

I have never used Wikipedia as a source for school work, as much as I may have been tempted to. However, I do use it for personal knowledge or to look up something that I have a question about. I always knew that anyone can post or edit articles on Wikipedia, that is the point of the website. In the article "WIRED" by Virgil Griffith, he talks about how he invented a tool that tracks down people that post things on Wikipedia. It also said that this doesn't always work. Say you are at Starbucks editing Wikipedia, well Griffith's tool would only trace your edit back to Starbucks not to you personally. So I think that even though this tool exists, Wikipedia will never be a creditable source for school work.

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