Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The Wisdom of Crowds

I was looking for information on the Microsoft project Acropolis. Wikipedia returned a general article on acropolises around the world (particularly the one in Athens, of course).

The first sentence on the page had half a link "For the [[cities which grew up on the surrounding lower ground." Actually, it's not just half a link, it's half a sentence.

A couple paragraphs down, we had this graffiti gem:

The term ''acropolis'' is also used to describe the central complex of overlapping structures, such as plazas and pyramids, in many [[Maya civilization|Mayan]] cities, including [[Tikal]] and [[Copán]].the acopolis was a stupied place the citys were brown.

Yes... the acopolis was a stupied place the citys were brown. Now, three spelling mistakes in a single short sentence might be construed as "stupied" but at least the author's city isn't brown, it's assumable that it is grey. As we all know, grey > brown. Yes, thank you for asserting your opinion and justifying the trustworthiness of Wikipedia.

Apparently, both the awkward intro sentence and the graffiti were the same individual. Oh, and in case you want to say that Recent Changes Patrols catch vandals, the change was made two days ago. Diff

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