What do you mean by the version being "permanently deleted from the public history of this page"? These instances of vandalism are retrievable from the page history, as far as I can tell. Do you mean something else? For what it's worth, such instances of vandalism [1] are common on Wikipedia, especially with ongoing events. Some of the vandal activity on the Rosa Parks page has been reported here [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress On Oct 25, 2005, at 8:50 PM, Mary K. Bryson wrote:
This week I am teaching Radhika Gajjala's wonderful Cyber Selves, and Lisa Nakamura's CyberTypes (who writes about "The work of race in an age of digital reproduction") in a course on new media and the possibilities for democratic public pedagogies. When I heard that Rosa Parks had died yesterday, I went online to look at the digital "rendering" of this life, and this death. On wikipedia, the entry for Rosa Parks contained what I first reacted to with disbelief as an extraordinary and somehow, incredible and incomprehensible racist paragraph under the entry - Death and Funeral. It was late. I looked at the page again today, and then the history of the page. It would appear that this particular version of the entry on October 24 has been permanently deleted from the public history of this page. This prompted me to look at more of the history of the revisions - just those made on October 25/05. Not so extraordinary at all, it turns out. I have compiled a short list of some of the contributions to this wikipedia entry for my class tomorrow. I don't know enough about Wikipedia to know how the revision made on October 24 could summarily be deleted from history.
At any rate, with a sense of caution in putting this "out there" - I am sending what I have found, and I have just started to look...
http://educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/565/wikipediarp.html
Mary
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