Friday, August 29, 2008

Wikipedia

The Sarah Palin Wikipedia page is being updated several times a minute. It’s been updated more than 500 times in the last 4 hours. That’s about twice every minute.

This is fascinating.

Here’s a contribution that I saw on the page briefly this afternoon. It was removed pretty quickly, but I find it entertaining:

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska lifetime member of the NRA and supporter of the brutal Iditarod is the choice of John McCain.

Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, says she loves hunting and fishing.

Worldwide, the animal rights community has tried to convince her to end the aerial massacre of wolves from helicopters in Alaska.

She has hunted for moose and guts them herself.

She calls environmentalists 'extreme environmentalists' and has tried to have the polar bear removed from the endangered species list (perhaps for trophy seeking hunters).

Before she took office, she was owner of a commercial fishing company. Her husband Todd still works as a commercial fisherman. Commercial fisheries are the chief drive behind the clubbing of seals in Canada, Norway, and S Africa.

The killing of Pribilof Island seals was cancelled.

She advocates the cutting of trees in the Alaska wilderness for oil.

Wikipedia editors have upped the protection level on the Sarah Palin page, but the edits are still fast and furious. They appear to be more constructive now, though.

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