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Sarah Palin's Wikipedia Whitewash
We now know that Sarah Palin probably isn't baby Trig's grandma (damn!) but someone on her team seemed to think her past needed a little bit of a touch up. On Friday, just 15 minutes before rumors started circulating that John McCain was going to pick her for his VP, someone made more than 30 favorable changes to her Wikipedia page. More »

2:11 PM on Sun Aug 31 2008
By ian spiegelman
35,829 views, 141 comments

Most discussed if_i_only_had_a_heart: sarah palin is a dominionist running as a stealth candidate on a radical christian hard right agenda that means she believes, more »
urban anthropology
NYC's Wikipedia Entry Penned By Idiots, Unsurprisingly
Steve Cuozzo in the Post hates Wikipedia, that "engine of ignorance 'compiled by volunteers' and masquerading as a legitimate reference work." He's right! It gets things about New York City all wrong, as he points out—not just wrong, but "notoriously wrong-headed." More »

10:44 AM on Thu Aug 28 2008
By Sheila
6,513 views, 69 comments

Most discussed braak: Why is he complaining at all when he could just fix it? And why doesn't the City of New York have more »
Strange Tucker Max's Wikipedia page bears no evidence that he's a gigantic tool. Editing that shit looks like a full time job, bro. [Wikipedia]

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scandal
Meet the Mistress! (Just Not on Wikipedia)
Remember how Wikipedia revealed that there's a character in an old Jay McInerney book based on Rielle Hunter, the woman who allegedly gave birth to John Edwards' love child? Well some enterprising Wikipedia editor erased that nugget of TRUE and NOTABLE information. Thankfully Radar actually picked up the book itself, and they share some words of wisdom from the fictional version of John Edwards' alleged mistress. More »

3:13 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Pareene
15,680 views, 30 comments

Latest by Skirkster: @ouiserboudreaux: But great, definitely. more »
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John Edwards' Wikipedia Page Strangely Love Child-Free
After all this Mickey Kaus blathering about MSM gatekeepers censoring the news and preventing the reader from learning "what happened yesterday" (or, at this point, last week), it's wonderful to see the citizen-journalists and crowdsourced new guardians of information acting just as ridiculously about this supposed John Edwards scandal. As you'll recall, the National Enquirer caught John Edwards sneaking into a hotel late one night to visit former staffer Rielle Hunter and her child. When they confronted him on his way out, he hid in a bathroom. Fox News confirmed the visit. But none of this meets Wikipedia's high standards of notability! You won't find Rielle or the Beverly Hilton even mentioned on the Edwards entry. More »

10:29 AM on Mon Jul 28 2008
By Pareene
23,952 views, 16 comments

Latest by Jeezabub: One day someone is going to make a lot of dough from that site, leaving a lot of Wikimorons feeling more »
5wpr
Sad Flacks Secretly Edit Their Boss's Own Wikipedia Page
An IP address affiliated with America's most inept agency, 5WPR, was used to edit the Wikipedia entry about 5W's CEO, incompetent superflack and bad apologizer Ronn [sic] Torossian. This is the same IP address that the agency was using to leave fake blog comments, which it was busted for last week. Hey 5W, you guys think you could stop doing this stuff? It's really depressing to cover you. After the jump, a look at the major edit of Ronn's page, which is now flagged for sounding "like a news release.": More »

10:09 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,228 views, 38 comments

Latest by SkepticOf5W: I am going to attempt to make quiz show history and ID the folks that was posted by: RTandHandelscock4eva more »

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Wikipedia Broke Tim Russert's Death, And Nobody Noticed
Wikipedia beat everyone else to the news of Tim Russert's death last Friday (see screen capture here: the hive-minded encyclopedia reported the event at 3:01 p.m EST., about a half hour before Drudge linked to a short New York Post announcement). According to the Wikipedia's "revisions," the person who reported this sad event was someone from Internet Broadcasting (IP address: 66.187.200.74), an IT company that has in the past has done work for — wait for it — NBC. Interesting. So instead of calling the inevitable friend at the Times or wherever, a nameless scribbler with a business tie to the network rushed to his or her computer to alert the world of Russert's passing in the least noticeable way. Can Wikipedia even claim credit for the scoop since only stalkers obsessively refresh biographical entries? Obviously, the site can't propagate every newsworthy addendum that's added to its many zillions of pages because there's a) no top-down authority for fact-checking, and b) if there were, the facts would have to be checked against an established news source, totally obviating Wikipedia's claim to be the first on the scene. More »

12:46 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Michael Weiss
3,367 views, 17 comments

Latest by SilverJacket: Area Man Honored To Be One Who Added Death Date To Heath Ledger's Wikipedia Page [www.theonion.com] more »
child porn
Wikipedia Is Arguing Whether This Album Cover Is Child Porn
In the original, the teddy bear's not there; there's just a crack obscuring the girl's vagina. This 1976 album cover from the Scorpions was banned in the U.S.; the German metal band used a shot of the band for the American cover of Virgin Killer. Now Wikipedia nerds are deciding whether it's child porn, and whether they should delete it from this Wikipedia page about the album. And if you clicked that last link, you might have just broken federal law. More »

5:19 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Nick Douglas
15,501 views, 50 comments

Latest by anFlubwib: So why is the Nevermind album cover by Nirvana not child pornography then? I think the way the west looks more »
Wikipedia What's New York's biggest internet site? AOL, no longer. Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia which is my some measures the seventh most popular site on the web, has no central office. But Jimmy Wales, the site's pundit-loving leader, is moving to the city.

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rachel marsden
Former Crazy Wikipedia Muse Reduced To Looking At Mediabistro
Rachel Marsden, the former pundit on the Fox show "Red Eye" who was tossed out for being too crazy, and who then went on to date Wikipedia guru Jimmy Wales before breaking up with him and putting his clothes up for sale on eBay, is now, predictably, unemployed. So she's trawling for jobs on Mediabistro, just like you! Marsden has supposedly applied to be a senior publicist at Maxim [P6]. Negatives: She has demonstrated that she is a serial loose cannon who will probably seduce the magazine's top editors and draw them into a scandalous and embarrassing public affair. Positives: She doesn't really like the Black Crowes, either.

11:45 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,841 views, 18 comments

Latest by TallulahSkankhead: @Rachel Marsden: Perhaps Duke needs a new PR agent? more »

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