Wikipediaphile

Posted by spliceanddice on October 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Information should be shared, plain and simple. Selfishness in spreading knowledge has no place in this world. At least that is what I believe in. Quite apart from that, those who want to look like geniuses by deliberately making others grovel in the darkness of ignorance should take their egocentric and elitist delusions to the underworld where they can rot without the world being informed. One way or another, the distribution and access to information should take the form of a socialist’s greatest dream, or one that is close to being just that: enlightenment without borders and bias, without restrictions set forth by no one, not even Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, the developers of Wikipedia dubbed as a “free online encyclopedia” that anyone can edit.

Anyone can edit. There you go. In its early years, Wikipedia has been home to a number of contributors who post “open” articles, which means any sane and insane web browser can freely retouch the original content of these entries. No wonder a deluge of cyber vandals were able to penetrate and corrupt the thousands of pages of articles, thereby polluting the brainchild of Wales and Sanger with mines of deceptive words and phrases.

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