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Wikiality: the revolution will not be verified

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09 Aug 2006

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/09/wikiality-the-revolution-will-not-be-verified/

There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over at Wikipedia about the satirist Stephen Colbert. In an item on his Colbert Report show last week, he coined the term wikiality - a wiki take on reality, that anyone can edit. In an effort to prove the inherent unreliability of the platform, he urged his viewers [...]

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