Disaster on Wikipedia: THE Wikipedia scandal

We've all heard of it Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, a great tool for anyone. Most of the time writers have good intentions and tell things the way they are. But sometimes people write about false information. Many have know that this is the case, they just didn't know to what extent. To figure that out Virgil Griffith student at the California Institute of Technology created the Wikipedia scanner. It is a program which scans articles and finds the IP addresses of people who have edited articles on Wikipedia. What was found surprised many. Employees of large companies were assigned to edit and delete information painting a bad image about the companies. People added falsified information to articles and organizations added references to themselves on articles not pertaining to them at all. An employee of Exxon Mobil deleted the entire section about the negative affects of oil on the environment from a Wiki page. Spain's royal family edited information, and one guy at fox started flaming people calling them losers and retards online. Although this may seem like a lot of bad compared to good, I can assure you Wikipedia is still trust able. I believe in time Wikipedia will replace actual encyclopedias. You can find anything on Wikipedia from the best Star trek uniform to the Roman Empire. So right now I am going to go learn something new on Wikipedia.

By: Ian