Information or deformation?

Following up from yesterday's post, here is the latest news on the debate around online sources (in general) and wikipedia (in particular) as reliable sources of information.

The New York Times reported today about wikipedia's "impolite side": some wikipedia entries contain not only errors (we knew this already), but also pranks if not downright insults.

Again, this should not surprise us, and comes from the very openness of wikipedia. The NYT article interestingly makes a generational hypothesis, considering that in 25 years (an eternity in the internet time), everybody will have become used (or been born with) a much more fluid vision of information than the one we inherited.

Let's talk about this in a quarter of century, then.