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=== Media ===

[Publicité] - a website or publication reporting about the existence of
Wikipedia is no news since many years. But this one is. In France there is a
website "Service-public.fr". It is a state website that "aims to give citizens
access to all administrative information on-line. Its objective is above all
practical: to answer questions posed by citizens to make their contact with the
civil service more user-friendly." says their website.  And they have presented
Wikipedia to their nearly two million monthly visitors and 200,000 readers of
their email newsletter. As a state e-government website this can bring FR
Wikipedia in spotlight to many less advanced internet-users.
http://www.service-public.fr/actualites/00369.html



[Virus Alert!] - a typical subject for spam. A more original was "warning from
Wikipedia"; an attempt by using the name and logo of Wikipedia to get people to
download a file that is suspected to be a virus. They also used a link to a
history page of an article to make it look more real. It was on the DE
wikipedia, and like you can except from DE.wp there admins are very gründlich
so the link was gone in a few minutes. It did has give many media inspiration
to write something negative about wikipedia. Example; the mostly read newspaper
in Belgium had on Monday a article, just above the one where the where saying
that Novell had invented Linux, that Wikipedia was hacked. 
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/80417
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6120268.stm
www DOT wikipedia-download DOT org - the fake website used by to spread the
virus. Windows users can probably better stay away from that site. 


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