Monday, January 25, 2016

The City of Lake Worth's Wikipedia page: A way to learn more about this little City in Palm Beach County

The little City of Lake Worth's Wikipedia page contains quite a lot of information: demographics, geography, notable people, etc. The page didn't receive much traffic for quite some time but that all changed last year when someone or some group tried to hijack the page for their own purposes. Political mis- and disinformation was added to the page and even a fake pitch was inserted into a paragraph attempting to promote a 'church' that was damaging the City's image. All of that false data was deleted and since then much effort has gone into maintaining the City's Wiki page and these people deserve much credit.

Interestingly, if many in the press would take the five or ten minutes to read this Wiki page they would learn why so many of their news reports are inaccurate. For instance, here are two excerpts:
Although the incorporated city of Lake Worth is small geographically, as is common in Palm Beach County, a large unincorporated urbanized area with a Lake Worth postal address lies to the west of the city, and includes the census-designated place of Lake Worth Corridor.
[and. . .]
The main campus of Palm Beach State College is located in unincorporated Lake Worth.
Very near the bottom of the Wiki page you'll see a line like this: "This page was last modified on 25 December 2015, at 00:51." As of today, 1/25/16, the page was last edited on Christmas Day last year. If that information/date changes you'll know someone has made some edits to the page. Stay vigilant!