Ignorance is Strength

Just a couple of reasons highlighting my apprehension to use Wikipedia as a source for anything other than to find out the birth-dates of your favorite celebrity:

Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's [CIA] computers made edits to the page of Iran's president.

The site also indicates that Vatican computers were used to remove content from a page about the leader of the Irish Republican party Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams.

Staff at the US Congress have also previously been exposed for editing and removing sensitive information about politicians.

BBC News website users contacted the corporation to point out that the tool also revealed that people inside the BBC had made edits to Wikipedia pages.

One in particular is Diebold, a company which supplies electronic voting machines in the US. In October 2005, a person using a Diebold computer removed paragraphs about Walden O'Dell, Chief Executive of the company, which revealed that he had been "a top fund-raiser" for George Bush.source

The result: A database of 34.4 million edits, performed by 2.6 million organizations or individuals ranging from the CIA to Microsoft to Congressional offices, now linked to the edits they or someone at their organization's net address has made.source  

With government intelligence agencies, self-interested political parties, religious organizations, and multi-national corporations editing entries, how can anyone trust anything on that site?

Big Brother is editing the entries. 

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Or is it?