On 8/2/06, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Now Colbert isn't a journalist, certainly not a traditional one as his show is basically a farce, but I would hope he knows who Jimmy Wales is and would be intelligent enough to contact him or someone else at Wikimedia before doing a segment on it.
Why? Wikimedia just pays the bills - it doesnt run the show. Wikipedians run the show, and any Wikipedian who saw that report probably got up off the couch and strolled over to their computer just to make sure it didnt get out of hand. Wikifaith - apparently Colbert has some sense of it. Wikifunniness too maybe.
I dunno. I apparently was wrong that it's a standard practice anyway. It would have been nice if *someone* had gotten a heads up *before* Colbert told the public to come vandalise the web site (even if it was said tongue-in-cheek).
Anthony