'Wikipedia in general suffers from a severe bias articles about controversial topics reward persistence over accuracy,' Ted Frank writes at Overlawyered. 'I think Wikipedia should also be protecting their entries on bears as well, just to be safe.,' Elf jokes on TVsquad, suggesting future Wikipedia entries are at risk from Colbert-inflicted damage.Īfterall, Wikipedia jabs are rightfully directed, some bloggers contend. 'Wikipedia is a model of how, under the right circumstances, there can be a cohesive benevolent brotherhood of caring individuals that is self perpetuating and self monitoring.'īut others found Colbert's segment a humorous jab at Wikipedia. He directed his readers to find the vulnerability of Wikipedia so to destroy it.,' Veritas writes at Daily Kos. But with this attack against Wikipedia he has upped the stakes. 'I know, I know, he needs to entertain to stay on television. Needless to say, the titanic collision between Tawker and the late-night laughmeister (or his impostor) did not escape the attention of bloggers, with most of them siding with Tawk-man. Tawker says Colbert has refused to pick up the phone or respond to his e-mails. 'In all, we ended up protecting 20 elephant related pages.Most were, you guessed it, the fact that the population tripled - way too many times…Ironically, Wikipedia suffered an database overload at the same time that this went to air, but that was totally unrelated to the event.' I blocked the defender of truth, Stephen Colbert (or at least an impostor.people are arguing if it was him or not) tonight on Wikipedia,' a defiant Tawker explained. Or, at the very least, Tawker blocked somebody who might be Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert from editing any Wikipedia entries. Tawker slapped a lock on the now-defiled elephant article and – for good measure – blocked Mr. Wikipedia's online guardian, who calls himself 'Tawker', was not amused.

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