Catching Up With Prisoners in Wikipedia

I made a tiny edit to the "Prisoners" entry in Wikipedia on Tuesday evening.  The edit that I made is gone, but someone added some more information to the article since then, about types of prisoners:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner

While this article is still far from comprehensive, the edit got someone's attention.  Maybe we should all add "stupid blue Smurf" in any Wikipedia article that we find inaccurate or incomplete, to keep them honest.  :)

Wikipedia Offline TOMORROW!

Wikipedia, Reddit and BoingBoing will be going offline for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) because information should be free! 

What would a day without Wikipedia be like?  Do we remember it?

Is It a Sin to Use Wikipedia?

The Vatican used Wikipedia for new cardinals' biographies

It would have been one thing if the Vatican wrote and published those biographies on Wikipedia.  Those would have been authoritative entries.  Instead, the Vatican used--and copied verbatim--Wikipedia entries that who knows who wrote for press releases.  One journalist knew something was amiss when he read the biographies and immediately noted that they were not written in the formal Vatican language.  He was even more surprised when he discovered that some were plagiarized from Wikipedia.

Apparently, Vatican City does not consider plagiarism a sin...but they felt pretty silly when the journalist leaked the story.