Over the last few weeks there's been numerous reports about a virus inside Wikipedia. While this doesn't harm your computer it does do alot more harm than people expect. It traces from what computer the posts were edited.
This was a crushing defeat for members of the wikipedia community simply because they had lost their anonymity and it was once again another nail in the coffin of Wikipedia's academic credibility. Last year reports began surfacing that Wikipedia was more accurate than Britannica; schoolchildren everywhere rejoiced because it gave them excuses to use the online encyclopedia for essays and projects. However those theories were quickly debunked by the various news organizations saying that Britannica had an aspect of credibility that Wikipedia could never gain. The credibility was lost again due to this virus because it showed that a variety of different organizations from Liberal Party in Australia to the CIA in America were 'cleaning up' their own Wikipedia entries....not exactly a forum of honesty.
Wikipedia is an amazing source of information. It's literally the world at your fingertips, but unfortunately it could be the internet's equivalent of Pandora's Box.
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