Sunday, June 14, 2015

Wikipedia - Handling of Facts and a Delusional Sense of Community

Wikipedia and its reliability of handling facts and a delusional sense of community


Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Built up by thousands of contributors and its tenets being safe-guarded by more than a thousand administrators. Its essence is to provide a compendium of reliable information, centered with a goal to be a one-stop site from obtaining information about a notable subject on a summarized manner backed by references from external sites. The keyword is "notable". Although the community has provided an ever-developing tenets and policies to remain a resource of such quality; how does the continuous goal to the gratification of notability and verifiability costs it in expense of proliferation of facts and ideals of a community.

Friday, June 5, 2015

Creation of Negros Island Region

Negros Island Region on OpenStreetMap

Due to Executive Order number 183 as signed by President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines on May 29, 2015, the newest region in the Philippines has been declared. Combining the whole Negros Island which comprises of provinces Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental into one region called the Negros Island Region.