[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales speaks on Radio National in Australia

[Keith Old]

G'day folks,

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National has posted audio
and a podcast of Jimmy Wales speaking on 21 March.

http://abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2007/1876878.htm

Crikey advises us that one of the callers Peter from Melbourne was former
Anglican Archbishop and Governor-General of Australia. I understand that
Hollingworth didn't advise of who he was. Unfortunately, you are required to
pay a fee to access it.

Our article on Hollingworth gives some idea of the exchange.

*I have a particular question and I am very glad that Jimmy Wales is there.
It is related to the biographical entries – I would just be interested to
know how all of those things are managed because to speak personally on it.
I found an entry on me at one stage which I found offensive and inaccurate
and it had been put on there by someone I had never heard of and I purely by
accident found it when someone else told me that I should check it out. Now
I fully support the whole idea of the democratisation of knowledge that's
the best thing we can do for everybody – but there is still – is the
question how you balance this out with truth and accuracy. Now in this
particular case I think the problem arose because the person who put the
entry in simply took the information from various newspapers who had got it
wrong in the first place so you have one falsehood being reinforced by
another and another – and I am just wondering and a question to Jimmy Wales
is – do you have any responsibility for that and what would you do for
example if somebody decided to sue you for libel?*
**
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hollingworth
**
The presenter, Paul
Barclay<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Barclay&action=edit>,
challenged the caller on whether he was Hollingworth. Hollingworth admitted
he was. Wales indicated that Wikipedia had never been sued and that it was
very careful to ensure that all biographies of living people were accurate.

Regards


*Keith Old*