[WikiEN-l] Another stupid article about vandalism. What can we do?

[Steve Bennett]

I read an article in a trashy free daily commuter paper ("mX"*,
probably not available online) which described how [[David Beckham]]
had apparently been replaced with the word TWAT. The article cited an
interview with a computer security expert of some kind who said
Wikipedia's servers might have been "hijacked", and it was surprising
that we didn't have any kind of "protection". Supposedly "Wikipedia
did not return mX's call."

According to the history, the TWAT change lasted three minutes.
Obviously the story is crap, but is there anything we can do to stop
these stories? Send a press release to every paper in the world
explaining what Wikipedia vandalism is and why it's not a story every
time it happens?

Steve
* Published in Melbourne, Australia