[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia the first draft of history - New York Times take on Joe Wilson article

[Durova]

A Wikipedian troll had a few observations too.

http://hamletprinceoftrollmark.blogspot.com/2009/09/who-writes-history.html

;)
-Durova

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:56 PM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> That's funny your link got it's final character cut off in my email box so
> it didn't work.
> Testing whether this link will work...
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_%28U.S._politician%29
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Old
> To: English Wikipedia
> Sent: Thu, Sep 10, 2009 1:38 pm
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia the first draft of history - New York
> Times take on Joe Wilson article
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> Folks,
> The New York Times reports:
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> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/the-wikipedia-battle-over-joe-wilsons-obama-heckling/
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> If journalism is the first draft of history, what is a Wikipedia entry when
> it is updated within minutes of an event to reflect changes in a person’s
> biography?
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> This is the very live issue that cropped up in a heated argument on the
> discussion page
> that
> accompanies Wikipedia’s entry on Representative Joe
> Wilson
> Wednesday
> night, just 30 minutes after the Republican from South Carolina interrupted
> President Barack Obama’s
> speech by
> shouting “You lie!” As my colleague Carl Hulse reported in a blog
> post
> published
> about 10 minutes after the fight got going on Wikipedia, Mr. Wilson’s
> outburst came in response to the president’s statement that his proposed
> changes to health insurance laws would not give coverage to illegal
> immigrants.
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> Since Mr. Wilson’s shout was made during a live television broadcast —
> nowarchived
> on YouTube by The Associated
> Press —
> in front of all of his colleagues, the fact that it happened is not in
> dispute. Afte
> r Wikipedia’s editors initially removed the first reference to
> the event
> from
> the entry on Mr. Wilson, citing concerns about sourcing and potential
> “vandalism,” the page was locked to prevent new or unregistered users from
> editing it.
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> That is when the argument among Wikipedians — which can be read in full on
> the discussion page starting
> here
> —
> really took off.
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> (More in article)
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> The Joe Wilson article is here:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_(U.S._politician)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_%28U.S._politician%29>
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> Regards
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> *Keith Old*
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