[WikiEN-l] The Times on Wikipedia

[George Herbert]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/12/22 WODUP <wikiwodup at gmail.com>:
>
> > The article says "The most notable instance of this was on the night
> Barack
> > Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry
> > disappeared for nearly an hour - to be replaced with the one-line entry,
> > "Barack Obama is the new SOCIALIST President of the United States of
> > America."", but the closest I could find was this
> > edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=249916284&oldid=prev>that
> > lasted for about one minute. I wonder what she saw.
>
>
> Put that in the comments section!
>
> "You realise, of course, anyone can immediately check up on it when
> you make statements like this."
>
>
> - d.
>

More likely explained by cacheing somewhere than malice...

However, explaining to the public and the reporter "No, that was your
browser, use a better one or hit refresh more often" is probably a
non-starter...


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com