Wikipedia controversy - be careful while sharing the knowledge

March 15th, 2007 | Interesting!

Wikipedia is a free encyklopedia where people all over the world manage the content of it. You can find the answers to many questions very quickly and without paying a penny. But you need to be careful because this is not as reliable source of knowledge as Britannica.

It came out that one of the promintent editoris and administrators of Wikipedia, Essjay, was found to have posted false information on his Wikipedia userpage. “He had claimed to hold doctoral degrees in theology and canon law as a tenured professor at a private university he was in fact a community college dropout from the U.S. state of Kentucky and had relied on sources such as Catholicism for Dummies when editing articles”. He had edited over 20,000 phrases on the Wikipedia.