Just like my previous post, Stephen Colbert tries to talk himself through. Quite convincing actually. Now I start to not trust Wikipedia that much. I guess it’s a double edge sword – you will have more people contributing your articles, you will also made it easier to put false information into them.
Wikipedia can still be trusted I feel, but don’t quote it that blindly. Always go to the actual source if there is one to verify how true it is. But of course, for normal geography schoolwork, you can always follow blindly. Your geography teacher knows nuts about what you write in your homework. You just need to make it sound convincing. The elephant population has increased in Africa, not because it really did increase, just because some menace is behind his computer typing nonsense into a user-contributed encyclopedia.
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Tags: geography, humor, internet, stephen colbert, television, wikipedia
Oh yes, I know that, I corrected one article in Wikipedia once myself
by Nafcom (Aug 5, 2006 at 12 AM)Nafcom: I’ve corrected it before too, I think it’s just some tiny sentence mistakes, hahaa…
by Mr. Dew (Aug 6, 2006 at 8 AM)