Wikipedia.org has proven itself to be more successful then any encyclopedia in the world, Encarta, Britannica, and many others. Why? The single reason for its success is that it is free. Its motto is “For the people, by the people.” The online encyclopedia is open for edition to anyone in the whole world. In this way different people all over the world congregate and put together the information on Wikipedia. Now in such an open-ended information chest the chances of credibility of articles are somewhat minimized. Now recent investigations have revealed several startling news. Reputed companies like Sony and Nintendo were caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

An IP address traced back to Sony was responsible for deleting several articles related to Everquest in order to remove controversies and alleged charges against it. The deletion   was a single paragraph refering to a St. Petersburg Times article about a man sentenced to 15 years in prison for fracturing his 9-month-old son’s ribs and leaving the child in a utility closet to die of a punctured heart while he played EverQuest.

Shocking news, though not entirely of the fault of the developer,, nevertheless does the reputation harm. Nintendo was caught deleting a paragraph proclaiming that the earlier and later versions of Gamecube were prone to disc errors. Another report of an IP owned by the Entertainment Software Association had “edited” the entries for modchips and Abandon Ware Site home of the Underdogs. “The modchip edit truncated a section describing the legality of modchips in the US as “ambiguous,” instead flatly stating that they are illegal because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The omitted text also mentioned the creation of mod chips, that would allow users to play legally purchased imported games, but still prevent the use of pirated, burned game discs.” And while in the Underdogs case the description of site’s “illustrious career” was simply changed to read “illegal career.” Amusing and seemingly childish, these however do have serious impacts upon the millions of people reading about the company’s seemingly “Illegal career”. These are just the external people responsible for devious schemes. The Wiki staff also isn’t saintly either. Small random and inconsequential information has been seen sifting about. Last but not the least, one edit traced back to an industry trade group who had added reference to a pornographic Web site to the entry for GameSpot’s sister site GameFAQs.”