People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.
Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.
Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
The nature of rumor is known to all.
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.