onion wiki(pedia) humor: defacement kills WikiConstitution

[Dustin Eward]

PISEN wrote:

>sorry in advance for interjecting humor.  here is an example of a wiki
>that died from its own democratic ideals:
>
>From this week's Onion:
>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40990
>
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>Congress Abandons WikiConstitution
>
>September 28, 2005 | Issue 41•39 
>
>WASHINGTON, DC—Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online
>version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live.
>"The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of democratic
>participation," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. "But when so-
>called 'contributors' began loading it down with profanity, pornography,
>ASCII art, and mandatory-assault-rifle-ownership amendments, we thought
>it might be best to cancel the project." Congress intends to restore the
>Constitution to its pre-Wiki format as soon as an unadulterated copy of
>the document can be found.
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>(peter p.: feel free to reply with an impolite statement of mailing list
>protocol.  just teasing! =)
>  
>
Mandatory semi-autos, I like that idea!  Maybe then people would know 
what they actually are...  :-P