Real History and the British Honours System The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) [images added by this website] I recognized the page at oncemy biography in the English-language edition of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia which anyone in the world can modify at any time.
Cleansing the Wikipedia swamp: more horror-stories from the online-encyclopedia world Our increasing reliance on Wikipedia changes the pursuit of knowledge by Paul Jay, CBC News Online TURKISH historian Taner Akcam arrived at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
on Feb. 16, 2007, expecting to be picked up by a colleague en route to a lecture he was to give later that day. Instead, he says, he was detained at the border for more than three hours.
For visitors to be temporarily detained at the border is not in itself unusual but, Akcam told CBC News, the evidence the security officers showed him when he asked why they had detained him was: a page containing a tampered Wikipedia entry from December. “I recognized the page at once,” Akcam would later write on the website of the University of Minnesota, where he is a visiting professor.
“The still photo and the text beneath it comprised my biography in the English-language edition of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia which anyone in the world can modify at any time.
For the last year — most recently on Christmas Eve, 2006 — my Wikipedia biography had been persistently vandalized by anonymous ‘contributors’ intent on labelling me as a terrorist.” [Full story continues: A question of authority | mirrored here Posted Jul 8, 2007 10:16 AM PST Category: COMPUTERS/SECURITY Long-time readers will recall how my entry at Wikipedia contained numerous errors which I kept correcting, and which kept getting reset