A WIKIPEDIA
COMO se sabe, a Wikipedia é uma «enciclopédia-online» onde, sem (grandes?) limitações, cada um pode escrever o que lhe apetece. Em caso de erros, as correcções podem aparecer... eventualmente...
Ora, recentemente, rebentou um grande escândalo porque um cidadão (Seigenthaler, por sinal um ex-assessor de Robert Kennedy) apareceu, nela, referido como estando ligado aos assassinatos de Jonh e Robert Kennedy (*).
Depois de muito se mexer e de recorrer aos jornais, o infeliz lá conseguiu reparar essa afronta - mas só dificilmente, e apenas 132 dias mais tarde!
Após este incidente, que deu brado, a «enciclopédia» decidiu passar a pedir (mas porquê só agora?!) que as pessoas que afixam textos se identifiquem...
A respeito deste mesmo caso, li hoje um post num blogue em que um leitor dizia que a prova de que a enciclopédia é boa é que, ao fim de uns meses, esse erro grave foi corrigido.
Isto faz-me lembrar um "técnico responsável" que eu em tempos conheci numa obra importante:
O cavalheiro fazia as coisas de qualquer maneira, e argumentava, satisfeito:
«Isto aqui é assim: ou está bem, e é óptimo; ou está mal, e depois corrige-se».
Se o homem não tivesse sido empandeirado, ainda hoje a obra não estava acabada...
--
(*) Veio a saber-se que se tratou de uma brincadeira de um amigo; ver «Comentário-1»
Afixado por: Carlos Medina Ribeiro às 13:52
1 Comments:
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP)
--
A man who posted false information on an online encyclopedia linking a prominent journalist to the Kennedy assassinations says he was playing a trick on a co-worker.
Brian Chase, 38, ended up resigning from his job and apologizing to John Seigenthaler Sr., the former publisher of the Tennessean newspaper and founding editorial director of USA Today.
"I knew from the news that Mr. Seigenthaler was looking for who did it, and I did it, so I needed to let him know in particular that it wasn't anyone out to get him, that it was done as a joke that went horribly, horribly wrong," Chase was quoted as saying in Sunday editions of The Tennessean.
Chase said he didn't know the free Internet encyclopedia called Wikipedia was used as a serious reference tool.
The biography he posted, which has since been replaced, falsely stated that Seigenthaler was linked to the Kennedy assassinations and had lived in the Soviet Union from 1971 to 1984.
The entry motivated Seigenthaler to write an op-ed piece for USA Today blasting Wikipedia's credibility. He described himself as a close friend of Robert Kennedy and said he had worked with President Kennedy. He said "the most painful thing was to have them suggest that I was suspected of their assassination."
Seigenthaler said he doesn't plan to pursue legal action against Chase.
He also said he doesn't support more regulation of the Internet, but he said that he fears "Wikipedia is inviting it by its allowing irresponsible vandals to write anything they want about anybody."
Chase said he created the fake online biography in May as a gag to shock a co-worker who was familiar with the Seigenthaler family. He resigned as an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company as a result of the debacle.
Enviar um comentário
<< Home