<div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">It's not just wikipedia that has published hoaxes and fake data. Traditional print media has long been affected by this.</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">See for example</font></div><div><h1 id="firstHeading" class="" lang="en" style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:visible;padding:0px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);line-height:1.3;background:none"><font size="2" style="font-weight:normal" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Jakob Maria Mierscheid (fictitious member of German Parliament)</font></h1><h1 id="firstHeading" class="" lang="en" style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:visible;padding:0px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);line-height:1.3;background:none"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:15.6000003814697px">Ernest Lalor "</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:15.6000003814697px">Ern" Malley (famous Australian poetry hoax)</span></h1></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">Lillian Virginia Mountweazel</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:13px;line-height:15.6000003814697px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">and the word "</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">esquivalience" which was put in a dictionary to detect companies who copy it.</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">TomTom maps also contain fake streets called 'trap streets" that allow them to detect companies who copy their map data. I have one (Nathan Drive) running through my block of land.</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">kp</span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">In the end, the system worked and the hoax was deleted. Wikipedians are getting better at uncovering hoaxes. If it survived for so long as an obscure page without any sources, it is just hibernating until somebody pokes it with a stick or flags it for removal. There is even a wikipedia page about this:<div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>Anyway don’t take the front page entirely at face-value. Here are two things that I point out to my students:</div><div><div><br></div><div>1. the discussion page shows up any controversy and the community around a topic. Often this flags issues in this topic that you need to be careful about. Just click on the talk tab.</div><div><br></div><div>2. the list of references and external links at the bottom are sometimes better than the article. If there are none then these should ring some alarm bells.</div><div><br></div><div>Many years ago I started the wikipedia page for an early native Australian cricketer. Top bloke and sportsman. The changes made to this page from my early version speaks volumes for how the "truth” about his life was changed and appropriated as the cultural context and world changed around him. Its a fascinating story i’ll share at the DLTV DigiCON conference next month to anybody who asks.</div><div><br></div><div>Registration is open now folks. Click here for details:</div><div><a href="https://dltv.vic.edu.au/dltv-annual-conference-2015" target="_blank">https://dltv.vic.edu.au/dltv-annual-conference-2015</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 24 May 2015, at 2:20 pm, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, data-gatherers</div><div><br></div>Next year, students will need to find reliable data to support their U3O2 hypothesis.<div><br></div><div>Obviously, most will start with Wikipedia.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's an enlightening article you might want to acquaint them with...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/15/the-great-wikipedia-hoax/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/15/the-great-wikipedia-hoax/</a></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px">Wikipedia says I'm handsome. Who am I to disagree?</span></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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