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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Max Baucus, from the Senator's <a title="Max Baucus, Senator from Montana" href="http://baucus.senate.gov/about/index.cfm" target="_blank">website</a>, <a title="Max Baucus, Fair use" href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107" target="_blank"><span class="comment">fair use doctrine</span></a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Max Baucus, from the Senator's <a title="Max Baucus, Senator from Montana" href="http://baucus.senate.gov/about/index.cfm" target="_blank">website</a>, <a title="Max Baucus, Fair use" href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107" target="_blank"><span class="comment">fair use doctrine</span></a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Jimmy Wales, by <a title="Jimmy Wales, by One Salient Oversight" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Wales_Tim_Tam_01.JPG" target="_blank">Wikipedia user "One Salient Oversight"</a>, public domain.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Jimmy Wales, by <a title="Jimmy Wales, by One Salient Oversight" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Wales_Tim_Tam_01.JPG" target="_blank">Wikipedia user "One Salient Oversight"</a>, public domain.</span></li>
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4 Responses to “ Wikipedia goes to Washington ”
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Cheryl Kohs
Better to be perpetually libeled than ignored!
And that goes for just about anyone in the public eye, these days.
Sad, but true.
Jon Awbrey
Thanks for a first-rate example of the sort of info-lit critique that we should be seeing out there — but so seldom do.
Kato
Great article.
That Lieberman incident is a really good example of Wikipedia’s negligence in practice, and shows just how avoidable these things actually are. I wrote about it back in early 2008.
http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071231/mr-wales-goes-to-washington/
What was interesting is that when I mentioned it subsequently during another discussion, a Wikipedia administrator instinctively dismissed the story as false hyperbole. However, when the admin took a closer look at the facts, he realized that Jimmy Wales had actually framed his actions in that way, and there was no additional hyperbole from me or other critics.
Wales protected Lieberman’s article during Wales’s Senate hearing chaired by Lieberman, citing “Not a good day for vandalism”. He dutifully unprotected the article after he had left the building.
Well what is a good day for vandalism? Presumably any time that doesn’t inconvenience Wales himself.
ManWithYoYo
Nice article. But you are missing the point, guys. Trying to show the Senate the errors of Wikipedia is a non-starter. They know the drill. First of all, as all of you doubtless know, Wales gives testimony to the DHS Committee chaired by Lieberman. There’s some ties there. He’s got an in. The Senate knows what’s going on on that site. They aren’t terribly upset about it, as it seems that you are trying to bring to their attention. Beyond this, Senator Baucus is Chairman of the Finance Committee, which is all-powerful, of course, in, among other things, Wall-Street-related matters. The topics that irk your group do *not* irk the Finance Committee, i.e. market predation, i.e. NSS.
I’m not saying that your attempts aren’t well-founded. They are. It’s just that the Senate isn’t functioning in the manner that one would normally expect. In particular, those two Committees.
That’s my take, take it or leave it. I think that you’ll find more sympathetic ears elsewhere. That’s not the way it should be, but that’s the way it is.
