Hidden Short Fiction in Wikipedia April 30, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Articles/Videos.trackback
Bryan Alexander, also known as Infocult Information, Culture, Policy, Education, has posted an interesting article about a phenomenon of inserting fiction into Wikipedia. Of course, fiction where it is least expected is a time honored tradition, with many examples of journalists or biographers who later admitted they invented the details in their writing. Then there was Jorge Luis Borges who is said to have written reviews of books that didn’t exist. One can only wonder what encyclopedias would be like if authors had the ability to insert elements of fiction into the articles.
http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2008/04/wikipedia-art.html
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Thank you for the link.
To be fair, I only posted a link to that article. Jesse Walker wrote the thing.