He’s not dead!
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has tightened its submission rules following a complaint.
Prominent journalist John Seigenthaler described as “false and malicious” an entry on Wikipedia implicating him in the Kennedy assassinations.
When he phoned Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder, he was told there was no way of finding out who wrote the entry.
Wikipedia has since removed the entry and now requires users to register before they can create articles.
But visitors to the site will still be able to edit content already posted without having to register.
Just keeping folks up-to-date.
Accuracy seems to be a problem. First it was the Google ads doing all sorts of strange stuff and wiki seems to have some strange behavior. I sort of doubt that writing new rules will fix much. It’s not like anybody is making much if any money with wiki. That’s not to say that it doesn’t have potential. It’s not authoritative. Now we have all these new book scanning ideas and projects because people trust books. The 7 year old kids don’t want books, they want Apple notebooks. Let them all drop $1,500 computers because books aren’t cool. The marketing to kids has been more accurate than the marketing to adults. Apple has mastered the nag your parents tactic.
Oh no! Someone implicated me on Wikipedia! This is an outrage… … … …
I dont understand Seigenthaler, its a plainly open “forum” of a sort. One would think that as a journalist he would ignore it due to its lack of credibility.
If someone implicated me in the Kennedy assassinations… … … *smirk*
Another example of how a few people abusing freedoms will result in less or limited freedoms for everyone else.
Wikipedia is a good example of just how difficult it is to write about something without interjecting your own value system.