From the weekend TeleBlog: Wikipedia tampering for O.J. editor Judith Regan?
Over the weekend the TeleBlog ran a post on the persistent and stealthy tweaking of a Wikipedia item on Judith Regan, the fired editor of the notorious O.J. book. While at ReganBooks, as has been amply documented, she was the boss from hell. Someone didn’t want the world to know. Lo and behold the deletions came from a Net address associated with a publishing company where she used to work and perhaps had a few friends left.
It’s obvious, from this and other instances, that many in the New York publishing community care intensely about the contents of Wikipedia. One hopes that will translate into cooperation—blending the breadth and productivity of the many-to-many model with the polish of traditional publishing.
Also of interest to Wikipedia fans: The New York Times’s interview with Mike Godwin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s first counsel, who today represents Wikipedia.
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