Wikipedia, for those who don’t know, is the online encyclopedia that solicits entries, updates and corrections of entries from its users. I find it a useful resource, but there have been too many reports of unreliable entries, people slipping in material as a joke or politicized rewrites of controversial material for me to trust it as an article source.

And then I read in Wired magazine that some corporations and organizations are actively engaged in editing their Wikipedia entries to delete anything objectionable:Diebold, the electronic-voting machine maker, apparently deleted 15 paragraphs reflecting negatively on their machines and other edits have been made from computers owned by the CIA, Wal-Mart and Fox News.

This wasn’t a problem with World Book!

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