Wikipedia


 * "I love Wikipedia. Any site that has a longer entry on truthiness than on Lutherans has its priorities straight."
 * &mdash;Stephen Colbert

Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia anyone can edit. It brings democracy to information. Unfortunately, it is generally filled with untruthiness and ideas perpetuated by the far left in order to gain control of the world. Such ideas are "Elephants are going extinct," and "George Washington owned slaves." We all know that these have no element of truthiness to them, therefore making them wrong. And Wikipedia wrong. Well they may not be wrong, but they don't FEEL right.

Wikipedia continues to try to prevent any article with general truthiness from existing on their site, trying desperately to redirect all searches for truthiness to those on The Colbert Report.

However, recent evidence indicates that Wikipedia is, in fact, a covert operation of the NSA as directed by Vice President Dick Cheney to subvert the liberals into editing articles on Japanese toys while Texas adds the Middle East to its state holdings prior to seceding from the USA and starting its own country where Hummers are the national animal, women have no voting rights, and spend all their time bare foot and pregnant.

The main problem with Wikipedia is that they must make a choice between a free encyclopedia model where anyone can edit, and a registered administrator model where administrators and registered users only can edit. I've on trying to make an article on how I rule, but they keep on deleting it. You know what I'm talking about JT.

Sadly, because people generally and overwhelmingly suck, the option of a true free encyclopedia devolves into an anarchy of edit wars, flame wars, and general debauchery. Wikipedia has decided instead to become a community of administrators. The big problem with this model, however, is that the credentials of the administrators are practically unvetted and their power unchecked. Great examples of this can be seen all over Wikipedia. The article on the United States doesn't mention an imperialist period beginning around 1948. The article on the current president glosses over his various scandals and youthful impropreities. Any effort to change these things is scoffed at by wikipedians. The unfortunate side-effect of their nerd patrol is that they refuse to admit that there is such a thing as wikiality or even that they are a collective group of pussy nerds.

External Sources

 * Wired reviews Wikipedia