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Some Histories of Wikipedia Edits #

February 28th, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

Nicholson Baker tackled Wikipedia for the New York Review of Books. Before you groan and moan “first they discovered blogs, now Wikipedia,” read this:

Some articles are vandalized a lot. On January 11, 2008, the entire fascinating entry on the aardvark was replaced with “one ugly animal”; in February the aardvark was briefly described as a “medium-sized inflatable banana.”