The Dangers of Open Content

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 16, 2006 @02:35AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

gihan_ripper writes "Recently released open movie Elephants Dream found itself in hot water with Catalonians after accidentally using an offensive word instead of 'Català' in the subtitle menu. The cause? Designer Matt Ebb had used Wikipedia to look up the Catalan word for Catalan on a day when the entry had been vandalized. He writes about this experience on the Elephant Dream blog. We may have scoffed at John Seigenthaler over his criticisms of Wikipedia, but it gives us pause for thought when we to heavily on Wikipedia."

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Here's some vandalism by HotBlackDessiato · 2006-07-16 02:38 · Score: 0, Redundant

...but it gives us pause for thought when we to heavily on Wikipedia."
They're not vandalizing grammer nowadays, are they? Awe crap.

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1. Re:Here's some vandalism by kbox · 2006-07-16 03:00 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  They're not vandalizing grammer nowadays, are they? Awe crap.
  
  No, But they are vandalising spelling.. It's "grammar".
  
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