Michael Peel wrote:
* Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry
Sanger, not by Ward
Cunningham and Richard Stallman.
True, but this is Wikipedia's fault. "The pioneering concept and
technology of Wiki comes from Ward Cunningham, the concept of a free
online encyclopedia from Richard Stallman. It was formally launched
on 15 January 2001."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
Err ... it's Wikipedia's fault if hurried journalists today do nothing
but research on it and misinterpret what they find? Puh-lease. To get
from that to "It was formally launched on January 15 in 2001 by Ward
Cunningham and Richard Stallman" you need to do plenty of
miscomprehension exercises. Remember: hacks get _paid_ to do this work,
often quite large sums, and (in the UK) are supposed to spend time
learning the importance of getting the facts straight. Not
copying-and-pasting, and then mangling the sense. They have subeditors
who are _paid_ to do the mangling.
Charles