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Answers.com Removes Offending QuakeAID Content
by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 14 February 20065 comments
Defamatory material pulled from Wikipedia encyclopedia removed
NEW YORK, NY — (OfficialWire) — 02/14/06 — Answers Corporation, operator of Answers.com today agreed to remove defamatory and untrue content from its popular website obtained from Wikipedia.
Founded in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein, Answers.com provides quick, integrated reference answers instead of just search engine links by extracting raw data from Wikipedia.org.
Unfortunately for Answers.com, a great deal of the information posted to Wikipedia has recently been shown to be inaccurate, untrue and intentionally defamatory. Answers.com simply re-published the untrue information at http://www.Answers.com/QuakeAID. Methods used by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.-publisher of the content-including encouraging anonymous postings, have exposed serious flaws with the online encyclopedia.
In a long-running dispute with Wikimedia, a number of plaintiffs are pursuing a http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org lawsuit that will seek to obtain class action status against Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., pornographer JIMBO Wales, Wikipedia’s founder, and the Trustees of the foundation in connection with defamatory and untrue content posted to Wikipedia.org.
Forum posts
15 February 2006, 16:05
The "... inaccurate, untrue and intentionally defamatory ..." information is apparently being posted by people who wish to destroy Wikipedia.
15 February 2006, 18:24
Indeed, "OfficialWire" and baou.com are well documented as being the same people as "QuakeAID" - whose argument with Wikipedia is that they were caught out trying to commit fraud.
15 February 2006, 19:22
Well documented? By whom? Names please. Don’t tell me the JDO is your source.
15 February 2006, 19:23
No, just trying to get them to be responsible for their actions.
13 March 2006, 20:53
It’s ironic that the same article that condemns Wikipedia as "inaccurate, untrue and intentionally defamatory" also uses the words "pornographer" and "Jimbo Wales" in juxtaposition...