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So I was trying to figure out how to spell Seder (I'm a pretty bad Jew I know!) and the Seder Wikipedia page has been vandalized with edits.

Dunno if anyone has wiki access and can fix it or knows how to get it restored. I'm not that religious but I'd like to see it fixed, for the integrity of Wikipedia as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder

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Wolf

Korea (South)3290 Posts

April 21 2011 03:46 GMT

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On April 21 2011 12:45 Jonoman92 wrote:
So I was trying to figure out how to spell Seder (I'm a pretty bad Jew I know!) and the Seder Wikipedia page has been vandalized with edits.

Dunno if anyone has wiki access and can fix it or knows how to get it restored. I'm not that religious but I'd like to see it fixed, for the integrity of Wikipedia as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder

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You can fix it yourself.

Jonoman92

United States9104 Posts

April 21 2011 03:48 GMT

Oh, I figured people had to get some approval or something to do edits.

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

April 21 2011 03:54 GMT

'Twas already fixed mine lord. The great haste of wikipedia's editors has shown its renown once again.

Arrian

United States889 Posts

April 21 2011 04:00 GMT

The integrity of wikipedia is something of a joke.

Yeah it's useful for some things, like general knowledge, but it's far too easy for somebody just to slip in the year 1562 for 1526 and nobody knowing the difference. Nobody would find that for a long time.

micronesia

United States24691 Posts

April 21 2011 04:06 GMT

Wikipedia becomes much less accurate for timely information... so something about Obama or today's holiday is likely to be messed with (they often block editing of controversial articles to veterans only). When looking up information that is not special to today then it's pretty good.

Jonoman92

United States9104 Posts

April 21 2011 04:06 GMT

On April 21 2011 12:54 Roe wrote:
'Twas already fixed mine lord. The great haste of wikipedia's editors has shown its renown once again.

To me the whole intro is blank, I guess someone removed it while they are fixing it you are saying?

Jonoman92

United States9104 Posts

April 21 2011 04:13 GMT

On April 21 2011 13:06 micronesia wrote:
Wikipedia becomes much less accurate for timely information... so something about Obama or today's holiday is likely to be messed with (they often block editing of controversial articles to veterans only). When looking up information that is not special to today then it's pretty good.

WHY IS YOUR PROFILE PICTURE SAGWA

wait... that is Sagwa right? Now I'm not sure.

micronesia

United States24691 Posts

April 21 2011 04:20 GMT

On April 21 2011 13:13 Jonoman92 wrote:

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WHY IS YOUR PROFILE PICTURE SAGWA

wait... that is Sagwa right? Now I'm not sure.

No it's Karupin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_(cat)#Himalayan_cats_in_the_media

Notice the lack of stupidity in that article XD

Froadac

United States6733 Posts

April 21 2011 04:40 GMT

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It got protected.

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

April 21 2011 05:24 GMT

#11

On April 21 2011 13:13 Jonoman92 wrote:

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WHY IS YOUR PROFILE PICTURE SAGWA

wait... that is Sagwa right? Now I'm not sure.

i love sagwa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tryummm

774 Posts

April 21 2011 05:48 GMT

#12

Wikipedia is still a good source for information in scientific areas...and most other areas. Most of the lies are rather easy to identify anyways. I really don't like the hate of wikipedia by many schoolteachers )=

micronesia

United States24691 Posts

April 21 2011 05:53 GMT

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On April 21 2011 14:48 tryummm wrote:
Wikipedia is still a good source for information in scientific areas...and most other areas. Most of the lies are rather easy to identify anyways. I really don't like the hate of wikipedia by many schoolteachers )=

The problem is when they hate it for the wrong reasons... for example someone asks me a question like "what is the difference between apogee and perigee for an orbit" and I can't remember so I go to wikipedia and type in "apogee perigee." Of course inside of a few seconds I have the answer.

Then they are like "wikipedia is no good" and I'm like "why is it no good" and they say "because anyone can change it." It makes me tilt I swear... I have to start explaining to them, schoolteachers the difference between using wikipedia as a literary/academic source and using it as an informative website.

LosingID8

CA10828 Posts

April 21 2011 06:03 GMT

#14

wikipedia is pretty amazing for biology-related (or i guess science in general) information. that's mainly what i use wiki for.

Crazyeyes

Canada1342 Posts

April 21 2011 06:32 GMT

#15

Honestly I've only ever once seen a mistake on Wikipedia, and it was fixed as soon as I refrshed it.

I have a few times tried to make the tiniest of changes to try to fuck something up where noone would notice (change two numbers in a date, add an extra I in WWII, switch two letters around in a word to create a spelling error) and those changes were too quickly changed.

However, I've 3-4 times contributed to wikipedia (fixed simple gramatical or spelling errors) and those changes remained.

As far as I'm considered, Wikipedia = the source of all human knowledge, and is good enough to be used as a source for like... everythingeverforever.

Dhalphir

Australia1305 Posts

April 21 2011 06:39 GMT

#16

Wikipedia is really good as a way of finding information and sources, but not good in and of itself as a source.

Thats a pretty good way to look at it, I think.

SgtSquiglz

United States668 Posts

April 21 2011 16:35 GMT

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On April 21 2011 15:03 LosingID8 wrote:
wikipedia is pretty amazing for biology-related (or i guess science in general) information. that's mainly what i use wiki for.

Yeah, I worked in a Biology/biochemistry research lab for a while at school, and even the professors in there frequented wikipedia whenever they needed to look something up. They said its almost always one of the best places for them to find some quick, concise info.

As for the issue of malicious editing, whenever I've seen something wrong on a wikipedia page (wrong date, or someone added in some totally wrong information), I am always shocked at how quickly it is fixed. I even had a friend in HS test it and switch up a date on some random page, and it was fixed within 5 minutes.