An Anonymous Patron writes “Wiki wars: Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry are bigger than Jesus over on WikiPedia. The 2 have become the most contentious in the history of Wikipedia, said Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales. As of October 8, Wikipedia’s President Bush entry had been tweaked 3,953 times. Its entry for Senator Kerry had been modified 3,230 times. By contrast, Wikipedia’s article on Jesus has only been edited 1,855 times since the site’s inception in 2001.
As Wikipedia has become more important, critics have attacked the reliability of Wikipedia’s system. Some users have even deliberately inserted errors into Wikipedia entries to test how quickly users can detect and remove them. The results have been mixed, with some finding their errors are fixed quickly, and others finding erroneous changes made to less popular entries persisting for longer periods of time.”
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