Monday, November 20, 2006
Ryan North and Wikipedia
:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/20/2006 06:03:00 AM I'm probably the last person on the internet to blog about this but since I read about it in an actual hard copy newspaper last Friday, it actually qualifies as pretty close to news (and since it involves a made-in-Canada comic strip, this is the place where you'd expect to see it, since Sequential is compelled by law to link to every Canuck comics-related story online).
So: prankish Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North has incited a spate of Wikipedia vandalism by proposing a method to curb Wikipedia vandalism. I would say "ironically" but the term doesn't really apply. Anyway, North, whose clip-art style strip is generally smart and contemporary, as well as quite tech-savvy, suggested in one of his strips that the Wikipedia gods sacrifice a boring entry (the entry on Chickens) to people who love to mess with Wiki entries, adding false info, etc. This would, Ryan reasoned, tongue-in-cheek, leave all the rest of the entries for the truth-lovers out there. Predictably, minor nerd chaos ensued. The whole affair is written up by Ivor Tussell at the Globe and Mail.Labels: links, people
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