Web Two > Transcript: John Siegenthaler Discusses Wikipedia on MSNBC

Media Orchard, by the Idea Grove[Media Orchard, by the Idea Grove] As Wikipedia has grown to become one of the most popular reference sites on the Internet -- and as such, perhaps Web 2.0's greatest success story -- a backlash has emerged. This week, USA Today published the story of retired journalist John Siegenthaler Sr., whose Wikipedia biography had falsely called him a suspect in the assassinations of both John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.

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http://thetension.blogspot.com  THE TENSION: In Wikipedia, one needs to look no further than the Fox News entry to see first-hand how the wiki has gone wacko. The authors' liberal point of view is so pervasive in the text that you cannot discern the simple facts from the subjective trash. (via Cosmos)

The New Market Machines: Seigenthaler, given the way things work at Wikipedia, is entirely free to edit the crap and insinuations out of his own biography, and/or to register his protest in the discussion thread accompanying the article. The interesting thing about Mediawiki, which forms the basis of our wiki, is that they allow you to view the history of emendations to the text, alongside the discussion of the text’s development. (via Cosmos)

http://106chicago.blogspot.com  106 miles to Chicago: Wikipedia can be wrong (even maliciously wrong) because no one checks it for facts. And now people are using Wikipedia as "evidence" or a source to support what they are saying. (via Cosmos)

yelvington.comhttp://www.yelvington.com  yelvington.com: Seigenthaler was burned by a vandal who added libelous material to his Wikipedia biography. The false material sat on the site for 132 days, apparently unnoticed by anyone with a clue. When Siegenthaler discovered it and complained to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, it was removed. (via Cosmos)

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