Wiki World

Someone should make a song up with that title.

Anyway.

Ah, blogging! Well. I have a cringe-worthy story for you that may make you think twice about ever even approaching a teacher.

I love Wiki. Wikiquote, Wikianswer, Wikipedia, Wikifur, all of it. It’s like a virtual world with just the facts, laid bare for all to see. So, innocently, I recommended it to a teacher, one who instantly drowned me in protests about the site’s inaccuracies. I, a stout fan of Wiki World, obviously denied all and defended my homework answer source. Finally, I won him over and he agreed to give it a go.

Approximately a week later, I spoke again to this teacher, who agreed that Wikipedia was certainly ‘interesting’.

I really need to learn to listen more closely to the use of that adjective.

I went on to be a tiny bit smug and, to my continuing shame, held the man up for a further five minutes by giving impressive examples as to how I had used Wiki over the years.

So. My teacher, looking at me the teensiest bit condescendingly, nodded. “Indeed?” Was all he replied to my inexplicit rant. Once I had concurred, he continued,

“So why did Wikipedia, apparently so beautifully accurate, try to tell me that Elvis Presley, two chickens and a cactus are living in a small farmhouse just off Aberdeen?”

Oh the pain. Wiki, you have let me down.