Wikipedia Knew VP Picks Before You
From, “The Fischbowl” by Karl Fisch
I think this story about Wikipedia being one of the first media outlets to post the news of John McCain’s vice president pick proves that the mission of Wikipedia is working. Wikipedia is meant to be a site where people could freely update pages according to their knowledge in a field. I know that many people do not see the website as a viable source for information but if the editors of Wikipedia are forced to site their source or else the article will be sent to the original author for restoring facts. The point of Wikipedia is to be able to provide as much possible information and by allowing people to edit and update pages to their expertise provides the website to be able to be the first ones to receive the most important news first such in this case as the vice president pick. Apparently this company, “Cyveillance” has devoted many of its resources to Wikipedia to find the open sourced information about corporate buy outs, executive hireings, and other such information important for American businesses. If this trend continues Wikipedia could start to have major economic effects when it comes to stock trading. I predict that Wikipedia will soon become a vital way to spread information on a large scale.
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