On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Daniel R. Tobias <d...@tobias.name> wrote: > On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:26:41 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote: > >> I confess that when my wife and I are sitting in front of the TV, and a >> question arises from whatever we are watching, Wikipedia's relevant >> articles become a first source of information on our laptops while we're >> watching. When we do that we seldom feel the need to follow the sources. > > One time I can recall that such a situation came up was during the > Super Bowl halftime a couple of years ago; somebody I was watching it > with started wondering how old Bruce Springsteen (the feature > performer there) was, so I grabbed my iPhone and looked it up through > a Wikipedia app. Unfortunately, the page had just been vandalized to > alter his birthdate to be 10 years earlier than it really was, so I > got a wrong answer.
Probably another Superbowl watcher who's halftime entertainment was to vandalise articles about people he or she had just seen on the television. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
