I started writing and editing articles on Wikipedia in June of 2004, mainly because I saw that some articles I looked at needed a lot of help. Most of my editing has been done on the Syracuse, New York article and basically almost everything that links from it.
On January 4, 2005, the Syracuse Post-Standard published an article about the accuracy of Wikipedia, using the Syracuse article as an example. This had been their third article on this issue, and the second that used the Syracuse article. This most recent one listed 26 "mistakes" that the Syracuse article apparently has/had. Wikipedians quickly took the word of the Post-Standard and corrected these. Many of these "mistakes" were to be found in expansions of the article that I had written, so I double checked my facts. In one instance (Blizzard of 1993 records), I had even listed a reference to an article by the Post-Standard staff from December 2003.
Other cases included facts that had been updated since my posting. For example, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra is now the 43rd-largest symphony orchestra in the United States, not the 45th. Sometimes my facts were apparently newer, as with OnTrack and the average snowfall. In any case, this does not make Wikipedia "wrong," but simply outdated, just like any paper encyclopedia would be.
On a plus note, the Post-Standard did find some mistakes that were truly mistakes, making Wikipedia more accurate.
Here are some of the photos I've taken and diagrams I've drawn for Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons. I generally license them Creative Commons 2.5 Share-Alike. Recently I have also been licensing them under the Free Art License as well.
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