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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Bolt 29/4: "Getting on the Wik of Smearpeddler"
Andrew doesn't like Wikipedia at all, thrilling at Andrew Hansen of The Chaser asking founder Jimmy Wales -
"how do you feel about the fact that when I looked you up on Wikipedia this morning I changed your page to say that you were a teenage drug lord from Malaysia?"

Says Andy - "an excellent question", subtly calling Wales a "smearpeddler" in the heading to his post.

I doubt Wales had reason to be too bothered - Hansen's vandalism would've been reverted almost before he reloaded the page. Like with a thirty-second edit to David Beckham's entry out of which a News Ltd colleague of Bolt's (who not at all suspiciously just happened to be check it in that brief window) squeezed a whole article in MX the other week. The speed at which these "Look! I vandalised Wikipedia! See how broken it is!" attempts are cleaned up ironically tends to demonstrate the strength and resilience of the system.

Still, News Ltd journos really seem to hate Wikipedia. I suppose what galls them is that when idiots write stupid things in Wikipedia, they're corrected by sensible editors very quickly; when News Ltd journos write idiotic drivel it gets printed into newspaper form and laughed at for days.

Maybe Bolt really doesn't like his own entry, although I'm not sure to what in particular he could object. It might be the lack of referring to him by his laughable preferred title of "Australian's Most Controversial Columnist". Maybe it's the lack of adulation for his Brave Stand Against The Global Warmenizer Religion. Or perhaps he's just pissed off that one of the links leads here.

Still, if Wikipedia really was a set of "smears", I suspect Andy's entry would look very different.

ELSEWHERE Andy should check out Conservapedia.

"Members of the Armed Forces continue to protect Americans, even the ungrateful ones", it declares on its front page, in a neutral and encyclopaedic fashion.

Unlike Wikipedia (which its authors appear to hate even more than Bolt does), Conservapedia aims to overcome its rival's "liberal bias", down to such crucial areas as ensuring that all spellings are the proper, God-fearing American ones. As it notes, sadly, "Wikipedia often uses foreign spelling of words, even though most English-speaking users are American."

I understand that starting a Liberapedia might actually prompt the Rapture.

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