[Web4lib] Another interesting Wikipedia item...

[Kathy Coorsh]

Did anybody catch the article in this weekend's NY Times:
Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar
December 4, 2005 - By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

K. Coorsh
katcoo at io.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K.G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>
To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Another interesting Wikipedia item...


> > Is anyone else amused by the irony of this article being hidden behind a
> > subscription paywall? Anyone? Hello??
> >
> > (I was able to get full text via Ebsco--so it *is* available through
> > other sources--but that took the sort of digging that the casual
> > Wikipedia user is unlikely to do.)
>
> Er, unaware of pay walls but too lazy to piece together a URL mangled by
my
> email client, I just Googled it:
>
> http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/insiderisks05.html#186
>
> But I dunno, that "pay wall" has its value at times, as do all walls.
> Sometimes they make good neighbors...
>
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
>
>
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