Ah Wikipedia. A massive website with tons of information about virtually anything imaginable. But, due to the fact that anyone can change or delete information put on it, you can't trust it. It becomes a website full of hot air. Wal-Mart can make changes so that they do not seem as greedy as they are. The Democratic and Republican parties can make changes to each others' pages. Ridiculous.
Virgil Griffith created a data mining software called the "Wikipedia Scanner". This finds and tracks the locations of users who anonymously change articles on Wikipedia through their IP address. I think it is great that we can openly view who makes changes to Wikipedia entries. I will stick with my current stance on Wikipedia. Use it to locate REAL sources.
That's OK. But be cautious about "REAL sources", whatever they may be, also.
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