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Article: Web wars ensnarl ferries: Wikipedia article altered repeatedly to criticize Lake Express.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2006
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Byline: Larry Sandler
Aug. 28--As if high waves and a busted gear weren't enough, now someone is firing Wiki-pedoes at the Lake Express high-speed ferry. Since March, a Wikipedia article about the Milwaukee-based ferry has been altered repeatedly to emphasize the vessel's cancellations, delays, mechanical problems and passengers' seasickness -- and to link to a Web site that compared the Lake Express unfavorably to the competing S.S. Badger. Meanwhile, the Badger has the opposite issue: Wikipedia recently flagged a glowing article about the 53-year-old ferry for possible copyright violations, because some of its wording appeared identical to that of the ...