Reality and Wikiality

By technologyexpert

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love The Colbert Report. It’s become a nightly ritual at my house to watch it … that and The Daily Show, of course. Tonight was especially hilarious because Stephen Colbert discussed Wikiality as “The WØRD” tonight.

Basically, he said that if someone wrote about something in Wikipedia, and enough people believed it, it would become reality. Thus, he said that we should go into the article on elephants and say that the number of elephants has tripled in the last six months.

I also noticed that the section on Wikiality in the Wikipedia article changed several times as I wrote this. The article on elephants didn’t seem to change, meaning they are, unfortunately, still endangered.

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