Monday, April 11, 2016

The City of Lake Worth's Wikipedia page: Take time to visit and learn more about your City

Here is a link to the City of Lake Worth's Wikipedia page. At the bottom of the web page you can see the last time it was edited. For instance, as of today (Sunday, 4/10) it was last "modified on 6 April 2016, at 20:04."

Thankfully, there is a person or persons that are doing a very good job of keeping the page from being hijacked as it was three times or four times previously. That's old news and won't go into that again except to show one example of what to look for when you read the Wikipedia page, such as this:
It was revealed in the spring of 2015 that a committee was meeting behind closed doors to consider a proposal to build a convention center and private beach club at the beach, and to destroy the Olympic-sized municipal pool, the only oceanfront Olympic-size municipal pool in South Florida. Residents have rallied to prevent this from going forward.
This text was deleted from the page. Someone was trying to do some not-so-clever monkeywrenching. The information added was intentionally misleading and no one even took the time to source the material. Why? Because the information is completely untrue.

A big Thank You to everyone that is involved in keeping our City's Wikipedia page fresh, with interesting historical information, and all the other facts and factoids that make this little City of Lake Worth so special.