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De source Wikipedia, Affaire Seigenthaler, extraits... En septembre 2005, le journaliste américain John Seigenthaler découvre un vandalisme de la part d'un contributeur anonyme sur la version en anglais de sa biographie sur Wikipédia [...] John Seigenthaler s'en est ouvert sur USA Today, le 29 novembre 2005, dans une opinion libre. Il a été invité sur CNN et sur la National Public Radio les 5 et 6 décembre 2005. Considérant avoir été diffamé, il a effectué des recherches qui lui ont permis de constater que le contributeur de cette mention était anonyme. C'était un client de BellSouth Internet, mais les lois américaines sur la protection de la vie privée ne permettent pas de connaître l'identité des utilisateurs d'Internet, même s'ils publient du contenu offensant. Du coup, refusant une action judiciaire incertaine, il a préféré écrire sur USA Today que : « Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool » (« Wikipédia est un outil de recherche défectueux et irresponsable »).
A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: December 11, 2005, New York Times, excerpt
It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility.
A man in Nashville has admitted that, in trying to shock a colleague with a joke, he put false information into a Wikipedia entry about John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville.
Brian Chase, 38, who until Friday was an operations manager at a small delivery company, told Mr. Seigenthaler on Friday that he had written the material suggesting that Mr. Seigenthaler had been involved in the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy. Wikipedia, a nonprofit venture that is the world's biggest encyclopedia, is written and edited by thousands of volunteers.
Mr. Seigenthaler discovered the false entry only recently and wrote about it in an op-ed article in USA Today, saying he was especially annoyed that he could not track down the perpetrator because of Internet privacy laws. His plight touched off a debate about the reliability of information on Wikipedia - and by extension the entire Internet - and the difficulty in holding Web sites and their users accountable, even when someone is defamed.
In a confessional letter to Mr. Seigenthaler, Mr. Chase said he thought Wikipedia was a "gag" Web site and that he had written the assassination tale to shock a co-worker, who knew of the Seigenthaler family and its illustrious history in Nashville.
"It had the intended effect," Mr. Chase said of his prank in an interview. But Mr. Chase said that once he became aware last week through news accounts of the damage he had done to Mr. Seigenthaler, he was remorseful and also a little scared of what might happen to him.
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