Wikipedia's Wales Reverses Decision on Problem Admin
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
ToiletDuck writes "Wikipedia co-founder Jimbo Wales appears to have changed his mind concerning Essjay, the administrator who was caught lying about his ...

ToiletDuck writes "Wikipedia co-founder Jimbo Wales appears to have changed his mind concerning Essjay, the administrator who was caught lying about his academic credentials. Wales issued a statement today on his User Talk page requesting that EssJay voluntarily step down. Wales defended his earlier comment about EssJay, claiming 'I only learned this morning that EssJay used his false credentials ...

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A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side
New York Times, NY - 38 minutes ago
By NOAM COHEN. In a blink, the wisdom of the crowd became the fury of the crowd. In the last few days, contributors to Wikipedia, the popular online ...

Contributors to the popular collaborative encyclopedia turned against one of their own who was found to have created an elaborate false identity.

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Wikipedia's Wales fires lying 'professor'
Inquirer, UK - 25 minutes ago
By Nick Farrell: Monday 05 March 2007, 06:45. OWNED OF Wikipedia - Jimmy Wales - has performed a u-turn on whether he thinks it is a good idea for a man who ...

OWNED OF Wikipedia - Jimmy Wales - has performed a u-turn on whether he thinks it is a good idea for a man who lied about having a triple doctorate was a good person to work on his online encyclopaedia.

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Farewell, Wikipedia?
Register, UK - 11 minutes ago
By Andrew Orlowski → More by this author. Comment After pressure over the weekend from Wikipedia's Il Duce Jimmy Wales, the encyclopedia's most illustrious ...

Bogus boy's departure puts trivia at risk Comment After pressure over the weekend from Wikipedia's Il Duce Jimmy Wales, the encyclopedia's most illustrious fake professor Ryan Jordan has resigned his post at Wikia Inc.…

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Key Wikipedia 'editor' unmasked as fraud
Unison.ie (subscription), Ireland - 58 minutes ago
WIKIPEDIA has been thrown into one of its biggest crises after a student posed as a professor of religious studies and made more than 20000 alterations to ...