Wikipedia - Wisdom of the crowds ?

Anna Nicole Smith Wikipedia entries were defaced and vandalised after the recent news of her death in a Florida

Hotel room yesterday.

Wikipedia the web largest participatory encyclopaedia - enabled a number of measures including ceasing the ability for anonymous users to edit the entry along with displaying a graphic highlighting the high volumes may result in defacing - in one day alone it received over 250 updates.

Wikipedia fundamental principle of utilizing the ‘ wisdom of the crowd ‘ in this instance highlights again the constant threat of unsavoury outcomes for a tool of genuine benefit for the masses, or does it reflect the true nature of the tool

Is this this actually a blatant case of vandalism or a speaking of the truth ?

Why not on Wikipedia ?

The growth of Wikipedia has now meant it is a trusted information source for most people, it represents our first port of call ahead of Google for fact finding - this move now gives certain expectations and responsibilities to the tool by which we do not expect infringements such as those surrounding Anna Nicole to be present.

At the end of the day Wikipedia works because of user participation , the collective and the Wisdom of the crowd - it has to be careful though not to loose this through censorship or putting into place measures by which information ' dictators ' decide on what knowledge should indeed be posted.

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