[WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Wed Jun 24 22:02:59 UTC 2009


William King wrote:
> http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/editor-of-wired-apologizes-for-copying-from-wikipedia-in-new-book/
>
> Chris Anderson, the author, summarized the situation in two words: "Mea culpa."
>
>   
Somewhat cynical: they thought they could just cite, looked at the GFDL 
and thought "damn, doesn't work that way", and then just went ahead. 

Charles




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