I am like many people and use Wikipedia as a source for all things trivial. However, I have been noticing a disturbing trend that more and more listings I encounter are filled with erroneous information. I understand that the entire premise behind Wikipedia is that pages are written by human editors, be it a PhD scholar who has years of experience on the subject or a high school dropout who likes to edit pages between beer chugs.

Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, showed last year how easy it is to create his own “Wikiality” when he modified various pages during a taping of his show. He also encouraged his listeners to modify entries on elephants to state that their population had tripled in the last six months. This public demonstration of the site’s main flaw, caused Wikipedia to lock pages and terminate various accounts.

But, as Colbert might ask, what is the “Truthiness” of Wikipedia? Is a reality of facts and logic, or the reality of only those with too much free time on their hands with nothing better to do? If you are a regular user of Wikipedia, you must ask yourself, are you taking the red or the blue pill?