[cripplecreek]

Wiki spreads stupidity.

[muawiyah]

My real name .............. hmmmmm ............. thought I had one ....... once.

Does somebody want my real name?

[AmericanMade1776]

By now, wouldn't you think most people know what Wikipedia is all about. Wikipedia is a great site for some information and sometimes you get misinformation, that is corrected when it is found out. Don't we all know that?

[AmericanMade1776]

And in all fairness to Wikipedia, who would think that a professor of Quinnipiac would intentionally try to sabotage Wikipedia?

[clintonh8r]

Wikkenpedia...one of the bad things about the web.

[#1CTYankee]

Sweet, I've found some good reference material there and now I guess I won't be visiting anymore.

(Unrelated) Go IDF!

[hawkeye101]

Wikipedia does spread a bad virus; the virus of liberalism.

[groanup]

We, the great unwashed, are simply too stupid to edit and read our own encyclopedia. We need intellectual wobble heads to spoon feed us knowledge.

[AmericanMade1776]

Joel Leyden is an Israel public relations pr consultant and the publisher of the Israel News Agency, Israel's first on-line news organization. He has worked as an Israel public relations PR consultant for Ehud Olmert, the prime minister of Israel, the Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Tourism, and the Israel Defense Forces, who awarded him a commendation for his crisis communications work during Operation Defensive Shield. Joel Leyden also served as a consultant to the government when Israel astronaut Col. http://www.leyden.net/Ilan Ramon died in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Originally from New York, Leyden is a former media advisor to former New York Mayor Ed Koch, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Senator Edward Kennedy, and the Democratic Party. Professional background: Joel Leyden has practiced international public relations, pr, public affairs, crisis communications and journalism for 25 years, and has coordinated several media events with personalities including former President Ronald Reagan, President Bill Clinton, Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Nixon advisor Henry Kissinger and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel

[PhiKapMom]

University of Oklahoma doesn't allow Wikipedia to be used as a source for any paper turned into a professor at OU because the content cannot be verified.

[pollyannaish]

I've heard manure is full of germs, no matter how you spread it.

[stylin19a]

A Quinnipiac professor did an experiment. He purposefully logged on and added incorrect information. Then he waited to see how long it took Wikipedia editors to correct the errors. He says it took three hours and he was reprimanded by the site’s monitors, but if you had read his entries during that three hour timeframe, you wouldn’t have known that you read falsified facts. There’s also no guarantee that all the information is void of bias and opinions.


um...what exactly did he prove ? 3 hours to get a fix in ? as if he was the only one to make an entry in that time frame ?

[toddlintown]

Here's a totally un-scientific speculation...

If you like Wiki,
You like Rudy...

[D.P.Roberts]

Sounds like Joel is annoyed that everybody doesn't put his spin on things.

[Cicero]

I have found Wikipedia extremely useful. It has articles on just about everything, including numerous things that no one else is interested in explaining.

Obviously it has to be used with care, especially when it on political matters. But on the whole, it is easily as trustworthy as, let's say, an MSM news source. And I believe most people are familiar with its vulnerabilities.

[horse_doc]

Wikipedia has more valid information per page than the New York Times does.

[MarkL]

There’s also no guarantee that all the information is void of bias and opinions.

So I guess they're going to be checking the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, SF Chronicle, and KC Star web sites next, to see if the information they post is "void of bias and opinions?"

I'll be holding my breath...

Mark

[gogogodzilla]

Wikipedia is filled with LIES!!!

Only the Uncyclopedia is true.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


:-P

[MonicaG]

I've wondered how reliable Wikipedia could be. Thanks for posting this article.

[SauronOfMordor]

I think the Israel News Agency has an ax to grind over Wiki's treatment of an entry on "The Israel News Agency" that INA's founder inserted himself

I went over and took a look at the discussion thread at Wikipedia over the Israel News Agency article deletion. One of the relevant comments:

Keep deleted' -- There are issues at stake here that I will not discuss publicly. However, here are several questions: 1) If INA is a prominent news agency from Israel, where is their article in the Hebrew Wikipedia? 2) A review of the INA webpage content shows that it is primarily editorials--does this meet the definition of news agency that Wikipedia gives? (Witness his May 12 piece, where he insinuates a link between WP and al-Qaeda, for instance--hardly the stuff of legitimate news agencies) 3) To date, information about the INA has been provided by its founder and people associated with him only--does this meet the criteria of WP:V? Danny 09:59, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

So they are exercising some editorial judgement, and I tend to agree with what I see of their rationale.

There's also an entry about a long-term abuser called IsraelBeach:

Wikipedia:Long term abuse Jump to: navigation, search Israelbeach (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) (aka Joel Leyden) is currently under an indefinite block for revealing personal information and for making legal threats. Several users judged to be puppets of Israelbeach have been blocked, but several other accounts with similar editing patterns are still active, and new ones appear periodically. The accounts are given the benefit of the doubt and not blocked on sight, as they do occasionally contribute valid edits.