[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia used in the courtroom?

[Stephen Bain]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/nyregion/15myspace.html?ref=nyregion
>
>  "Judge Sciarrino's order, which managed to quote both Wikipedia and
>  'Hamlet,' meanwhile served as something of a primer for the
>  technologically challenged."

And not for the first time. In fact, we even have a whole page of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_as_a_court_source

<shameless plug> I also blogged about a similar subject last year
</shameless plug>:

http://thoughtsfordeletion.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-do-they-use-us-let-me-count-ways.html

The article doesn't seem to mention how Wikipedia was used in the
court case, but it was probably to describe the way Myspace works,
using Wikipedia essentially as a primer for the topic at hand, much as
one would reference a dictionary if, say, a particular word in a
document were significant in a court case.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com