On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Svein Halvor
Halvorsen
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:00 AM
To: Lee Capps
Cc: Thomas Dickey; Bill Moran; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the
relative
advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?))
Bill Moran wrote:
A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom:
GNOME guy)
describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected
false
information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research
And also: Where is this professor's ethics? Does he also misinform
the
students in class, only to later accuse them of not verifying the
facts?
And did he even think about the fact that others may have read his
misinformation? Why does this professor think that his agenda is more
important than Wikipedia's? Did he later correct the articles?
I hope this professor got some sort of reaction from his
University due
to his unethical attitude towards openness, knowledge and science.
I'm afraid I have to agree. The Prof was as lazy as his students.
The
world abounds in misinformation, it doesen't take a lot of effort
to find
it. The prof could have spent the hour he spent forging info in
Wikipedia,
finding already forged misinformation and having his students
research that.
He could have started at the Scientology website, for example, then
moved
on to PETA and the NRA.
I note with interest that, so far, none of us has tried to track down
this professor's possibly apocryphal research ;-)
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Lee Capps
Technology Specialist
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