Wikipedia - Keeping the Vandals Out

Sorry, I couldn't resist posting this picture. This is a great example of the difficulty of "keeping the vandals" out of Wikipedia. As with any user-generated platform, there are significant challenges with not only ensuring the content is accurate and relevant, but ensuring that the content is clean and in good taste as well.



As indicated in the caption of the picture, Wikipedia has processes and procedures in place to ensure that graphics and article in poor taste such as the one above never get posted to the site.

Accurate, relevant articles are posted to Wikipedia because those who post the articles are typically passionate about the subject they are posting about. Most users would not go out of their way to post an article about something they do not care for. Additionally, the more and more folks that are on the 'network', the more accurate the article will become because of Wikipedia's edit functionality. Because the site is open-source and anybody can edit the articles, there are of course going to be instances where inaccurate data/articles are posted; those that are inaccurate are definitely in the minority.