Yes, I agree with Cary ...When I said "tale of caution," I did mean that we (Wikinews) shouldn't let ourselves fall into the same trap. Since we are a sister project it can be even more tempting to use Wikipedia as reliable source. We should be diligent and dig a little deeper than just the current version of a Wikipedia page.-SVTCobra----- Original Message -----From: Cary Bass Date: Friday, May 8, 2009 12:15 pmSubject: Re: [Wikinews-l] A tale of caution and/or a story ideaTo: Wikinews mailing list Cc: Jay Walsh > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----> Hash: SHA1> > No offense, but the joke is not on Wikipedia, but on those > members of> the mainstream press who republished something from a Wikipedia> article without verifying the information was accurately sourced.> It's not some dark little secret that information on Wikipedia is> subject to the ability of people to verify it and revert it if > it gets> unsourced. There are disclaimers and disclaimers and disclaimers.> > I don't think Jimbo is going to be the least bit worried. I > know the> Foundation isn't.> > Cary> > Thorsteinn Malmjursson a écrit :> > .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage {> > font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } Whoops. Shows why we need> > to work more on verifying stuff. Wikipedia is slowly turning > into a> > joke. First Essay, then suicide threats, now hoax sh*t being used> > in obituaries. What next? Jimbo's gonna be stewing on this.> >> > Iceflow> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------> -------> > Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 23:55:36 +0000 From:> > wikinewssvt@optonline.net To: wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikinews-l] A tale of caution and/or a story idea> >> > Hoax quote on Wikipedia goes mainstream:> >> > From The Irish Times:> > > http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html?via... >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org%3E > iEYEARECAAYFAkoEWq0ACgkQyQg4JSymDYkJ/QCgnaI635LInhkFg/MLuJn2XnSz> KhgAn1gT4tyejXYnhKOF0snZcloT5owW> =Ckc9> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----> > > _______________________________________________> Wikinews-l mailing list> Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l%3E