Not really anything to do with security, but I find this interesting.It's something I told many times before. Now insiders within Wikipedia feel the same. They are going to start a "new" Wikipedia which will be called: Veropedia. I did like the idea of Wikipedia, but it has become more and more a place where every silly thing is written down, and a lot is inaccurate also. Quite true because there is no way you will know the information is accurate, and accurate ALL the time. A couple of times I noticed that the Wiki editors just copy/paste websites without checking the accuracy. This is what the founder of Veropedia has to say:"When we first signed on with Wikipedia our goal was to build a citadel of knowledge," says Terry Foote, another long-time Wikipedian who's working with Wool on Veropedia. "But now it's more like ancient Rome, and the Visigoths and the vandals are coming over the walls."Wool says he was reading Wikipedia's article on René Descartes the other day when he found a quote in it from the Dilbert Blog, mistakenly attributed to the French philosopher. (It has since been corrected.)"I love Dilbert," he says. "But when seventh-graders go to Veropedia, we want to make sure they get the most accurate information presented in the best possible way."
Wikipedia Untrustworthy.
By secgeeks - Posted on November 16th, 2007
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