[Foundation-l] Robert Mugabe's daughter - news story originating from Wikipedia?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 13:51:17 UTC 2007


On 30/03/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 3/29/07, Carl Fürstenberg <azatoth at gmail.com> wrote:

> > "Can the Minister confirm that [[Robert Mugabe]]'s daughter, Bona
> > Mugabe, is currently studying at the London School of Economics, and
> > if so, can he say who is paying?"

> If this did indeed play out this way, it is deeply concerning and
> reminiscent of ''The Onion's'' parody of Wikipedia:
> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
> I can only repeat what is already known; the implementation of a
> community approval method for article revisions is underway with the
> help of a contractor (some volunteers have recently jumped in).
> Progress is slower than I would like.


And even then, it won't cure phenomena such as this politician being a
bloody idiot. I mean, what on earth?


- d.



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