Post 1550

by billso on Monday, 30 August 2004

Tech: Alex Halavais decided to per­form an exper­i­ment on Wikipedia. He inserted incor­rect infor­ma­tion into sev­eral Wikipedia pages. The edits were fixed in a mat­ter hours by vol­un­teers who noticed the changes. I pre­sume most of these peo­ple learned of Alex’ edits through RSS. Take that, Al Fasoldt. Your fif­teen min­utes are up.

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