As we all know, Wikipedia is pretty much our one stop spot to find out information on pretty much anything. Personally, I have heard good and bad things about this websites. Usually the good users explain how everything is on there and you can edit all the entries. Bad reviewers hate the fact you can edit the entries because it makes the information false. Virgil Griffith must have been a bad reviewer because he created a program called Wikipedia Scanner, which is a search tool to search IP addresses and turn all entries back to its orginal edit from the original creator of the entry.
Wikipedia started off as a "cool" thing. A one spot look up source that if you find something that is not true, you can easily just change it so that future users will not read false information. But, all good things go bad eventually. Big time names such as Wal-Mart and Diebold (a voting machine company) were having their entries changed from positive entries to negative ones. So, who is changing the entries? Research shows, that it was coming from users straight for the head quarters or comany computers. Their own was making them look bad!
If Wikipedia wants to keep up its status of allowing anyone to edit entries, it defintely should be monitered. Perhaps, the Wikipedia Scanner can help out a lot with phishing through unwanted entries and removing them with facts. Maybe the sources that are left can be checked out to make sure this is realiable and truthful.
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I think that the entries being monitored is a good idea. It would be helpful, by making sure that only true information was posted on the site.
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