MightyFunk

It’s amaz­ing to think that just about ‘any­one’ can write an arti­cle about ‘any­body’ or ‘any­thing’ on Wikipedia.

Is it just me, or does that con­cept seem faulty at best? The only advan­tage of this sys­tem is that masses of infor­ma­tion can be quickly writ­ten and updated — but that does not nec­es­sar­ily mean that the peo­ple edit­ing or admin­is­ter­ing this web­site are so-called ‘experts’ in the fields they are editing.

The Wikipedia sys­tem, although extremely pop­u­lar at the moment has the word FAIL writ­ten all over it. I argue that it is a good place for ref­er­ence, but peo­ple MUST remem­ber (and must not for­get) to take the arti­cles posted there very lightly.