Wiki business?
Thu 9 Feb 2006
Wikipedia's founder tells More4 they 've still got cyber credibility as US politicians use an online encyclopedia to make fiction fact.
History is written by the victors - so they saying goes. But if you visit the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, then you'll know that anyone can write it now.
It's proved amazingly popular, especially for some American politicians who've seen their online-biographies favourably re-written.
By their own staff. Wikipedia spotted the foul play and put the record straight - but its exposed the flaw in their system. Roz Upton reports, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joined us via webcam for an interview.
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