[WikiEN-l] What sparked your interest in Wikipedia? (was Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source)

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Tue Jun 16 05:01:56 UTC 2009


I found pseudoscience on Wikipedia and resolved to correct it. Took way too
much of my time..:)

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/6/15 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>
> > And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and
> > a really long thread results.
>
>
> My wife suggested in late 2003 I look something up on "Wikipedia." I
> started off in a quiet and noncontroversial manner, first editing
> stuff about neo-Nazis then editing stuff about Scientology. A few days
> later I posted to my blog "New form of online crack discovered."
>
> (Subject: line changed accordingly)
>
>
> - d.
>
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