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The Wikipedia Debate Continues

Posted by: Heather Green on December 20

Or rather, it got new legs. Wired sums up the latest scuttlebutt around Wikipedia.

What’s new? “Public edit logs reveal that (Jimmy) Wales (Wikipedia’s founder) has changed his own Wikipedia bio 18 times, deleting phrases describing former Wikipedia employee Larry Sanger as a co-founder of the site,” writes Wired. Wales says he made the changes to correct factual errors, Wired reports.

Rogers Cadenhead at Workbench originially pointed out these changes.

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