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Paul Gillin's Blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise: Prankster unmasked
Paul Gillin's Blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
  Prankster unmasked
A Tennessee man has admitted to posting a spurious biography of veteran editor John Siegenthaler, Sr. on Wikipedia.org. I described the incident in a post about a week ago. There's a story about the admission here. Apparently, there was no harm intended. The story said the prankster changed the entry to play a trick on a co-worker, although why he chose Mr. Siegenthaler to be the victim isn't explained. Wikipedia got a lot of grief over the incident and event went so far as to tighten its submission rules to prevent a recurrence.
 
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