[WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 18:26:38 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Ray Saintonge<saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Steve Bennett wrote:
>> So, can someone fill me in on why we're laughing at this? From the article:
>>
>> That seems like a pretty reasonable concern to me. To destroy the
>> effectiveness of a test that has that kind of research background to
>> it (tens of thousands of papers!!) doesn't seem like a laughing
>> matter. Maybe it's unavoidable. Maybe it's collateral damage. But the
>> concern that publishing it on Wikipedia is different from publishing
>> it elsewhere on the web seems legitimate.
>>
>>
> It's good to know that the efforts of the jokesters seeking to remove
> this material was reported on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)'s
> National news program last night.

I'm surprised by how popular the article still is.  In some ways, our
traffic is still light enough to be pushed around significantly by
news.
   http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest-daily/wikipedia/en/

SJ



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