"50% of all examined case of vandalism on Wikipedia were repaired with 2 or 3 minutes." (Kohl, 170)
Haha not so in Miles City, MT, Wikipedia, not so. Somewhere around my sophomore year of highschool, two guys that I know and was going to school with at the time, decided it would be awfully funny to test Wiki's "author" boundaries. They managed to change the knowledge in the government section of the Miles City page to read their names as president and vice-president of said town, along with a few other personal touches. A print out of that page, last I know, was hanging on their walls.
Wikipedia didn't find the inaccuracy for almost a full 24 hours - probably because Miles City isn't high up in the importance department of maintenance but still. That begs the question of just how well Wikipedia is contained - and when, and which pages are more important? If someone did something like that (albeit in a subtler manner) and I read two different things in two different days, which to believe? Sigh.
I know this isn't even close to the recommended 500 words, or very "deep" persay, but thinking about that story still makes me grin. My apologies. I will do better in the morn.
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