Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)
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What Happened Outside of Wikipedia?
The Tunisian protest had not actually been deemed a revolution by Wikipedia even though their leader president had fled the country resigned but that article was still called the Tunisian protests. A poll on the top page and said it edits his way in on whether the name should be changed now that Mubarak has resigned this is all happening within minutes and then hours of his resignation some editors are so asleep right I mean many of them are editing around the clock but this is day 10 and the US I think the US they were still asleep and at least on the west coast and so editors tried to stop this massive crowd that moved into the article but eventually they just gave up because the sentiment was so powerful.
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