Unfortunately, I find this whole incident sad, from start to finish. I'm glad that there's some sort of closure, but the ramifications of this man's "joke" will have long-lasting effects for years to come. I certainly hope that he got a good laugh out of it now, because there will be little laughter for a long time to come.
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of ABCD Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 10:37 PM To: English Wikipedia Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: Google Alert - Wikipedia
On 12/10/05, Google Alerts wrote:
A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank New York Times - United States It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to ... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/business/media/11web.html
Well, it looks like the guy confessed... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l