Why the media can't get Wikipedia right

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3 Jan 2006

I recently had a short conversation with a woefully misinformed person about Wikipedia, wherein they claimed that "It's going to be shut down!" and "They're getting sued!" Nope, on both counts. They were discussing, without much understanding, John Seigenthaler Sr.'s USAToday op-ed piece about the popular online open-source encyclopedia.

David Weinberger analyzes the "controversy" and identifies what the media is not getting about what wikipedia is, and does, and why the hysteria is unfounded.

Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 4:18 PM | 0 TrackBacks

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