Monday, December 12, 2005
The guy who made the false Wikipedia entry on John Siegenthaler has been tracked down. Or rather, his company was located. He then came forward and admitted what he had done and resigned from his company. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia (which, by the way, is a frequent Quiz Bowl question for its name coming from the Wiki Wiki line of buses in Hawaii) seems oblivious to the danger to his creation by such manipulation of the site to plant false information. I think they could solve this if they had a system of keeping track of who posts what so that if something egregiously damaging is posted, such as was done to Mr. Siegenthaler, they could track down and find the person who did that. Such people should, at least, get barred from posting there any more. Just wait until someone less tolerant than Siegenthaler decides to take Wikipedia to court.
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