On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Ray Saintongesaintonge@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