{"id":212,"date":"2007-08-15T20:52:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T01:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2007-08-15T20:52:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T01:52:40","slug":"surprise-wikipedia-cant-be-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Surprise. Wikipedia Can&#039;t Be Trusted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/onlinerights\/news\/2007\/08\/wiki_tracker?currentPage=all\">reports<\/a> that a cool (but extremely clunky) new tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/wikiscanner.virgil.gr\/\">WikiScanner<\/a> lets us all see who&#8217;s been making anonymous edits to wikipedia. Or, at least, which IP addresses.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, it turns out that those edits haven&#8217;t all been for the betterment and enlightenment of mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, politicans trash others and prop themselves up, companies hide their wrongdoing, journalists and news media giants from Fox to the NYT seem to make edits left and right. (Speaking of left and right, the blogs on the Right seem to notice NYT doing it, but ignore that FOX is doing it. Go figure. Prolly happens with the blogs on the Left too, but I haven&#8217;t seen that yet.)<\/p>\n<p>I hate Wikipedia. There. I&#8217;ve said it. People look at me as though I&#8217;m crazy when I admit it, but you can&#8217;t see me, so I&#8217;m telling you straight. I don&#8217;t trust it, and I don&#8217;t like that it comes up first on everything I search for, so I can&#8217;t get away from it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now I trust it less, which is kind of amazing.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, I first found out about all this from a blog I guess is supposed to be called <a href=\"http:\/\/ivo.co.za\/\">The Spike<\/a>. But I&#8217;m not sure what it&#8217;s called. I don&#8217;t agree with anything the guy says, and his page loads really slowly, but credit where credit&#8217;s due. He did post this stuff about WikiScanner and I read it there first.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired reports that a cool (but extremely clunky) new tool called WikiScanner lets us all see who&#8217;s been making anonymous edits to wikipedia. Or, at least, which IP addresses. And of course, it turns out that those edits haven&#8217;t all been for the betterment and enlightenment of mankind. Nope, politicans trash others and prop themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}