Este artículo está buenísimo. Un tipo llamado Virgil Griffith creó una herramienta para identificar la I.P. desde donde fue cambiada una entrada de la Wikipedia. Encontró varias cosas muy, muy interesantes. Microsoft, Apple, el Vaticano, Exxon, etc... todos cambiaron las entradas para beneficiar sus intereses o afectar los de otros. Les copio aqui abajo varias entradas.
Esto nos hace pensar que tan bien van a funcionar las fuentes de información colaborativas.
En algún lugar había leído que la wikipedia al ser colaborativa, y contrariamente a lo que podemos pensar, tiene menos errores que la enciclopedia británica. El problema viene cuando hay intereses de por medio, como con las grandes corporaciones o las grandes instituciones religiosas.
- Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate
- Apple edit Microsoft entries, adding more negative comments about its rival
- Bill Gates revenge? Microsoft edits Apple entries, adding more negative comments about its rival
- The Vatican edits Irish Catholic politician Gerry Adams page
- In the 9/11 Wikipedia article, the NRA added that “Iraq was involved in 9/11”
- Exxon Mobil edits spillages and eco-system destruction from oil spillages article
- FBI edits Guantanamo Bay, removing numerous pictures
- Oil company ChevronTexaco removes informative biodiesel article and deletes a paragraph regarding fines against the company
- Scientology removes criticism and negatives article from Scientology page
- Al Jazeera TV station adds that the foundation of Iraq was just as bad as the Holocaust
- Amnesty International removes negative comments
- Dell Computers deletes negative comments on customer services and removes a passage how the company outsources work to third world countries
- MySpace removes paragraph when their website was hacked
- EA Games deletes whole paragraphs of criticism about employment practices and business methods
- Dog breeding association deletes whole paragraphs about fatal attacks by dogs on humans
- US Republican Party changes the "Post-Saddam" section of the Baath Party article to a different account of the war, changing the language from "US-led occupation" to "US-led liberation"
- Fox News removes all controversial topics against the network from the Fox News page
- News of the World deletes a number of criticism against the paper
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