The Good

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The Good
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The Bad
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The Ugly
The Ugly
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Garbage In Garbage Out
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Quantity VS. Quality
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Collateral Misinformation

• Truth Can You Handle It? by Monica Hesse,
  Washington Post April 27, 2008

What's that??
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From UrbanDictionary.com

• 1.       collateral misinformation       
          1486 up, 259 down                When
  someone alters a Wikipedia article to win a
  specific argument, anyone who reads the false
  article before the "error" is corrected suffers
  from collateral misinformation.I changed the
  scientific classification of red foxes last night
  in order to win an argument with Judy. I hope
  some stupid High School student didn't suffer
  from collateral misinformation.tags wikipedia
  misinformation collateral damage deception high
  schoolby wildefox Calgary Mar 5, 2008 email it

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Experiment

• Of 100 history terms entered into a Google
  search.how many had Wikipedia articles as the
  first hit????
• Wikiality a reality where, if enough people
  agree with a notion, it must be true. Stephen
  Colbert

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Wikipedia

• What do we know????

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What Happens?

• From The Times (UK) 3/28/08
• WEST YORKSHIRE Police mounted a surveillance
  operation on the internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia
  after its biography of their chief constable was
  altered more than 100 times in the past month
  (Sean O'Neill writes).
• A game of online ping-pong ensued there were 26
  revisions on February 15 alone. Wikipedia
  intervened earlier this week to "lock down" the
  page, preventing further editing.

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Theres More!

• Baseball Historian Spots Fraud
• Report on death of lefty relief pitcher for the
  Sox, Bill Henry at the age of 83..
• Incorrect!
• Tampa Tribune (Fl) 9/27/2007

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John Seigenthaler

• Administrative assistant to Robert Kennedy in the
  mid 1960s
• Falsely accused of being involved in Kennedys
  assassination (Jack and Bobby)
• Error remained on Wikipedia for 6 months
• When Seigenthaler asked Wikipedia who wrote the
  article, they did not know!
• When questioned by Seigenthaler, Wikipedia,
  stated that their computers are programmed to
  copy data verbatim, never checking whether it is
  false or factual.

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Is the Editor Real?

• Touted himself as a tenured professor with
  doctorate in theology and canon law
• Who was he really?
• 24-year-old community college dropout
• Wikipedia editor who posed as professor is Ky.
  Dropout, The Courier Journal, March 26, 2007

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What About Google?

• Anybody can put anything on the Internet!

What Do You Know?
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