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. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l