[WikiEN-l] Another stupid article about vandalism. What can we do?

[David Gerard]

On 21/04/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I read an article in a trashy free daily commuter paper ("mX"*,
> probably not available online) which described how [[David Beckham]]
> had apparently been replaced with the word TWAT. The article cited an
> interview with a computer security expert of some kind who said
> Wikipedia's servers might have been "hijacked", and it was surprising
> that we didn't have any kind of "protection". Supposedly "Wikipedia
> did not return mX's call."


Wait for the atmospheric idiocy level to die down, I expect.

The last sentence strikes me as a direct lie. Just who did they call and when?


- d.