Man Fired For Writing Wikipedia Entry

Via CNET: A man in Nashville has admitted that, in trying to shock a colleague with a joke, he put false information into a Wikipedia entry about John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. Yes, this was the man who brought about one of the two recent scandals at Wikipedia. The man, Brian Chase, 38, was then fired from his job. I’m sure this is one prank he regrets now! What’s worse is that Wikipedia has since suffered major damage to its image, something that will take a lot longer to repair than the damaged entry. It’s hard to walk that line between open and free and so open that there is no accountability.