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note: i just made another search... he is still alive. sorry for the mistake.
as posted on google, 17 Dec 2005
Wikipedia founder 'shot by friend of Siegenthaler'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/17/ji...says_wikipedia/
Register - 2 hours ago
World mourns Lazarus for the Web 2.0 generation
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Saturday 17th December 2005 00:32 GMT
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been shot dead, according to Wikipedia, the online, up-to-the-minute encyclopedia.
Apparently, the assassin was a friend of the victim of a recent controversy which ironically, smeared former Robert F Kennedy aid John Seigenthaler as a suspect in the assassination of both Kennedy brothers. That claim, which the site carried for several months, along with the assertion that Seigenthaler had lived in Russia, was eventually proved false.
At 18:54 EST on December 12, John Seigenthaler's wife, who was infuriated at Wikipedia regarding the recent scandal regarding his role in the Kennedy Assassination, came into the house, where Jim was having dinner. Wearing a mask, he [sic] shot him three times in the head and ran, reported the online reference source.
The free-for-all, write-it-yourself website prides itself on its fact checking.
Wales made his fortune in bond trading before setting up the Bomis pornography ring. A long time devotee of Ayn Rand, Wales recently criticized the decision to grant federal funds to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, according to reports on a web discussion board.
(IMG:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/jimmy_wales_while_alive.jpg)
Right, um, seriously...
With co-founder Larry Sanger, who has since left the project, he helped kick-start the project just as the dot com boom was collapsing, and now he's the public face of Wikipedia. Before his death, Jimmy Wales had become a familiar sight on cable TV news, usually vowing to tighten up the project's editing processes in response to the public scandal that had broken that week.
His death will be mourned by many across the internet.
The news of the shooting even made the venerable London Times, yesterday. The Times noted that after the first Seigenthaler scandal broke, the now deceased Jimmy Wales had, as he has so often, promised to tighten up a few nuts and bolts in the encyclopedia's editorial processes.
He certainly had his work cut out.
A cursory search today suggested that these procedures - which require contributors to register basic details before posting articles - were being defeated by a relentless wave of vandals, apparently co-ordinating their assaults from a series of chatrooms dedicated to its demise.
The loss of credibility has caused commentators to question whether Wikipedia is destined to follow the LA Times's doomed experiment in unrestricted internet comment, Wikitorial, which had to be closed down after just two days under a bombardment of pornographic postings.
Is nothing sacred?
So is Wikipedia a source of reference, or just a great big game?
Speaking to The Register last month, former Britannica editor Bob McHenry charictarized Wikipedia as a game, one of many multiplayer shoot-em-up games that have been made popular by the spread of networked computers.
It's got the public playing the encyclopedia game, he told us recently. It's also like playing a game in the sense that playing it has no consequences. If something goes wrong, you just restart. No problem! he said.
For the record, The Register must note that the ubermeister of Wikipedia appears to be alive and well
The news of his death consisted of a random edit to his own, particularly fulsome entry on the encyclopedia he helped create. ®
(IMG:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/jimbo1.jpg)
c: google.com
http://news.google.com.my/news?tab=wn&ned=us&topic=t
edit 1: i just checked the site and i can't find what d author wrote about.... do u see the above in wiki site?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
edit 2: above is the alleged post
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Omg. Thats horrible, i love that site. I use it all the time. R.I.P
Is that the only site with the story? I cant find it anywhere else.
Also, about not being able to find the article on that John guy, it is because he phoned Jimmy Wales and asked who placed that infor there, Jimmy didnt know and so they talked and eventually it was taken down or something. At least i think part of it was.
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__ R.I.P
i love wikipedia.
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i just made another search... he is still alive.
sorry for the mistake.
Wikipedia hit by surge in spoof articles
By Simon Freeman
Wikipedia was yesterday described as being as reliable as the Encyclopaedia Britannica despite a sustained attack from vandals intent on further wrecking its reputation for accuracy.
In an online article published by the respected scientific journal Nature , articles in Wikipedia - the web-based encyclopaedia created by volunteers - compared favourably to those in the foremost repository of knowledge in the English language.
This is despite a surge in the number of spoof articles and vandal attacks which have followed the furore over a biographical Wikipedia article linking John Seigenthaler, a respected retired journalist, with the assassinations of both John F and Robert Kennedy.
In one such fake article, it was suggested today that Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's creator, was shot dead at his home by Siegenthaler's wife.
Wikipedia's founder accepts that the site's open and egalitarian nature renders it vulnerable to such attacks, but after the Seigenthaler scandal he promised to tighten up procedures to prevent misleading articles from being published.
A cursory search today suggested that these procedures - which require contributors to register basic details before posting articles - were being defeated by a relentless wave of vandals, apparently co-ordinating their assaults from a series of chatrooms dedicated to its demise.
The loss of credibility has caused commentators to question whether Wikipedia is destined to follow the LA Times's doomed experiment in unrestricted internet comment, Wikitorial, which had to be closed down after just two days under a bombardment of pornographic postings.
Today's false report of its founder's murder read: At 18:54 EST on December 12, John Seigenthaler's wife, who was infuriated at Wikipedia regarding the recent scandal regarding his role in the Kennedy Assassination, came into the house, where Jim was having dinner. Wearing a mask, he [sic] shot him three times in the head and ran.
A search for the term 'Wikipedia' revealed the one-line entry: An encyclopedia full of crap.
Subsequent searches revealed: Although it may seem factual, Wikipedia is largely a web of lies and falsehoods, and it is not to be trusted by any means. Do not use wikipedia as a source for anything; it is worthless.
And later: Editors are encouraged to uphold a policy of sticking it's head up it's ass; under which notable perspectives are summarised without an attempt to determine an objective truth.
The army of 600 volunteer editors were rapidly updating and amending the falsified entries, but the continued assault highlighted flaws in one of the best-loved and most successful websites.
The embarrassing attacks came despite the survey published in Nature which suggested that errors on Wikipedia appeared to be the exception rather than the rule after the journal used peer review to compare Wikipedia to Britannica.
Based on 42 articles reviewed by experts, the average scientific entry in Wikipedia contained four errors or omissions, while Britannica had three.
Jimmy Wales, who is still very much alive, said: We’re very pleased with the results and we’re hoping it will focus people’s attention on the overall level of our work, which is pretty good. He said that Wikipedia plans to begin testing a new mechanism for reviewing the accuracy of its articles from next month.
c: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1933568,00.html
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EDIT: That mess was so not funny.
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I knew it was false, i was looking for it everywhere and i couldnt find another article on it!
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as posted on google, 17 Dec 2005
Wikipedia founder 'shot by friend of Siegenthaler'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/17/ji...says_wikipedia/
Register - 2 hours ago
World mourns Lazarus for the Web 2.0 generation
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Saturday 17th December 2005 00:32 GMT
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been shot dead, according to Wikipedia, the online, up-to-the-minute encyclopedia.
Apparently, the assassin was a friend of the victim of a recent controversy which ironically, smeared former Robert F Kennedy aid John Seigenthaler as a suspect in the assassination of both Kennedy brothers. That claim, which the site carried for several months, along with the assertion that Seigenthaler had lived in Russia, was eventually proved false.
At 18:54 EST on December 12, John Seigenthaler's wife, who was infuriated at Wikipedia regarding the recent scandal regarding his role in the Kennedy Assassination, came into the house, where Jim was having dinner. Wearing a mask, he [sic] shot him three times in the head and ran, reported the online reference source.
The free-for-all, write-it-yourself website prides itself on its fact checking.
Wales made his fortune in bond trading before setting up the Bomis pornography ring. A long time devotee of Ayn Rand, Wales recently criticized the decision to grant federal funds to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, according to reports on a web discussion board.
(IMG:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/jimmy_wales_while_alive.jpg)
Right, um, seriously...
With co-founder Larry Sanger, who has since left the project, he helped kick-start the project just as the dot com boom was collapsing, and now he's the public face of Wikipedia. Before his death, Jimmy Wales had become a familiar sight on cable TV news, usually vowing to tighten up the project's editing processes in response to the public scandal that had broken that week.
His death will be mourned by many across the internet.
The news of the shooting even made the venerable London Times, yesterday. The Times noted that after the first Seigenthaler scandal broke, the now deceased Jimmy Wales had, as he has so often, promised to tighten up a few nuts and bolts in the encyclopedia's editorial processes.
He certainly had his work cut out.
A cursory search today suggested that these procedures - which require contributors to register basic details before posting articles - were being defeated by a relentless wave of vandals, apparently co-ordinating their assaults from a series of chatrooms dedicated to its demise.
The loss of credibility has caused commentators to question whether Wikipedia is destined to follow the LA Times's doomed experiment in unrestricted internet comment, Wikitorial, which had to be closed down after just two days under a bombardment of pornographic postings.
Is nothing sacred?
So is Wikipedia a source of reference, or just a great big game?
Speaking to The Register last month, former Britannica editor Bob McHenry charictarized Wikipedia as a game, one of many multiplayer shoot-em-up games that have been made popular by the spread of networked computers.
It's got the public playing the encyclopedia game, he told us recently. It's also like playing a game in the sense that playing it has no consequences. If something goes wrong, you just restart. No problem! he said.
For the record, The Register must note that the ubermeister of Wikipedia appears to be alive and well
The news of his death consisted of a random edit to his own, particularly fulsome entry on the encyclopedia he helped create. ®
(IMG:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/jimbo1.jpg)
c: google.com
http://news.google.com.my/news?tab=wn&ned=us&topic=t
edit 1: i just checked the site and i can't find what d author wrote about.... do u see the above in wiki site?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
edit 2: above is the alleged post
This is a tricky report! haha when I first read it, I was socked and thought things were getting way too out of hand..but its obviously fake. Nobody's dead...this article is written up to mock the credibility of Wikipedia and the so called credible sources from the Internet...but this article tricked me pretty well at first, I must say!
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^ i feel bad to have fallen for it hook, line and sinker...
just because i trusted google...
will double search next time...
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Heh. He looks pretty good in that portrait.
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since it's fake, no need to keep it open
