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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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