Links for 2006-08-03 – plasticbag.org

Stephen Colbert ‘analyzes’ Wikipedia in this You Tube clip from his US TV Show I can’t even imagine UK TV comedians talking about Wikipedia, which probably explains why the UK remains a second-class net nation. Funny but troubling piece from Colbert, though…
The history page on Wikipedia for ‘Elephants’ shows how resistant the site is to calculated attacks like the one Colbert proposed It’s more the quiet changes where factual errors seem to me to be likely to creep in – places where the edited fact seems plausible and perhaps uncontroversial. Still, Wikipedia remains my first port of call when I want to know something…

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