[WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia?

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On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:26:41 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> I confess that when my wife and I are sitting in front of the TV, and a
>> question arises from whatever we are watching, Wikipedia's relevant
>> articles become a first source of information on our laptops while we're
>> watching. When we do that we seldom feel the need to follow the sources.
>
> One time I can recall that such a situation came up was during the
> Super Bowl halftime a couple of years ago; somebody I was watching it
> with started wondering how old Bruce Springsteen (the feature
> performer there) was, so I grabbed my iPhone and looked it up through
> a Wikipedia app.  Unfortunately, the page had just been vandalized to
> alter his birthdate to be 10 years earlier than it really was, so I
> got a wrong answer.

Probably another Superbowl watcher who's halftime entertainment was to
vandalise articles about people he or she had just seen on the
television.

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