Wikipedia up 10 and the trick of the century

Going through ups and downs with real-world editorial content, "war", and finally its ruling affirmation in the Internet world, Wikipedia's open encyclopedia has come to milestone "up 10".

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In its decade, Wikipedia has changed the way we access information on the Internet and participate in its own creation (Wikipedia). Almost every search result from Google is easy to identify suggestions for Wikipedia articles (there are a total of 17 million articles on Wikipedia, and 3.5 million of them in English).

Operated by Jimmy Wales, the " stubborn " man always insisted on rejecting all invitations to put up advertisements on Wikipedia, instead receiving donations from volunteer individuals and organizations. In the fundraiser at the end of 2010, the amount of donations to Wikipedia from many individuals and organizations amounted to 16 million USD.

Although the site's criteria are that anyone can change the content of the article they want, but for some classified pages that are ' particularly sensitive and easily controversial ', this feature is heavily restricted. through multiple layers of security, and only certain users that are directly related to the content in the article are allowed to proceed with the modification.

The most famous scams in Wikipedia history

Wikipedia ' may ' be the place to hold the largest human knowledge, but it is also for this reason that it is often chosen by the " fraud " world as a place to store " tabloid " stories. . The following are Wikipedia's most famous scams , selected by Networkworld .

Essjay event

The cult was such a page . Wikipedia talked about this event. In February 2007, a Wikipedia administrator known as Essjay made bogus statements about his education as well as his professional skills on his personal Wikipedia page, and through. on the face of reporter Stacy Schiff in an interview with The New Yorker.

Edward Owens

Another scam also 'honored ' to receive a Wikipedia page, ' Edward Owens ' is a completely fictional character, created by students at George Mason University in December 2008, as part of of the project specialized in creating unreal historical figures called ' Lying About The Past '.

The strategy of this group is to create a Wikipedia article about the ' Owens ' character with an excerpted biography. After a series of news agencies, including USA Today were ripped off, the class instructors of the naughty students decided to announce the truth.

Seigenthaler case

In May 2005, an administrator of Wikipedia created an article with unrealistic content, aimed at the 78-year-old American journalist John Seigenthaler, who was a suspect in the case . assassinated President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kenndy. It is worth mentioning, the serious commands of wrong commands existed for 4 months without being detected.

10th anniversary of the establishment of Wikipedia's encyclopedia

College students trick media industry all over the world

If you're a journalist, Wikipedia is a place that can provide a lot of information. But it's best to cross-check with a second source, to ensure the information you are looking for at Wikipedia is highly reliable. But an experiment by a university student in 2009 showed that many people working in the communications industry forgot about the basic principle mentioned above.

Shane Fitzgerald, a student at Dublin University, Scotland, inserted a fake sentence into the ' Quote ' list of famous composer Maurice Jarre, after his death. The sentence does not affect the reputation of the composer - verbatim: ' My life is a long piece of music. Music is my life. Music gives me life, and music is what will make me remember after my death. When I lie down, I will have a valve in my head that only I can hear . '. But it seriously affected the reputation of the major news agencies, including The Guardian of the United Kingdom, when these newspapers simultaneously posted the other non-compose-of-music phrases. Worse, everything just broke a month later , when it was . Shane decided to reveal everything.

British President Tony Blair worship . Hitler?

Writing about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wikipedia, he hung large poster posters of Adolf Hitler's fascist on the wall during his childhood years . A tabloid story of politics .