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Re: The 15 biggest Wikipedia blunders


From: David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:01:49 -0400

Calling these "blunders" is a bit misleading; they're pretty much all 
instances of vandalism.  And most instances of vandalism are fixed very 
very quickly (within minutes or better).

It would be more interesting to see a list of untruths that persisted for 
(say) longer than a day.  And to see some analysis of which were 
successful vandalism and which were something else.  Otherwise, "Wikipedia 
has at various instants contained false statements!" really isn't all that 
interesting, and doesn't really tell us much...

DC
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