Wikpedia: How should Jimmy Wales react when people create fake pages that mimic Wikipedia in every way?
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Yesterday I Googled "Meredith Kercher," victim in the Amanda Knox case. A link took me to what seemed like a Wikipedia page. http://themurderofmeredithkercher.com/index.php?title=Main_Page. Only when I noticed the extreme bias against Knox did I suspect a fake. Real page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Meredith_Kercher. I wonder if constructing fakes is legal and if it happens often on Wikipedia. Should a disclaimer be required? If I hadn't written http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780425230831,00.html, I would definitely been fooled.
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Looks like a page made using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki, which is the underlying platform on which Wikipedia runs. Wikipedia open sourced this for the benefit of the world at large and there are many many websites that use it. To be sure you are looking at a real Wikipedia page, check the address bar in your browser; it should start with: https://en.wikipedia.org/ (this example is for English-Wikipedia)
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I don't think it's for us to say how Jimmy Wales 'should' behave. More interesting perhaps is the fact that the page to which you refer is certainly not a fake. It's a perfectly legitimate use of MediaWiki to collate and present information. I'm very curious about your description of it as a fake and your assertion that it is extremely biased. You appear to be a victim (or part) of the excellent misinformation campaign that has focussed on the US public with respect to this case. Would you like to point out the key areas of inaccuracy on the site? What do you think of Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's view which he outlines in a 6 minute video on this page: http://www.newsmax.com/NewsmaxTv/alan-dershowitz-amanda-knox-murder-trial/2014/01/31/id/550244
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