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Violent threats on Wilson High's Wikipedia page went unchecked – Following last week's story on the school threat made on Wikipedia, it appears that the student has been posting offensive messages onto the school's Wikipedia entry for more than a year. The article recounts the events leading up to the arrest, stating that police did not close the school after the first threat, but only searched the students' bags as they entered the school and requested that the message be removed from the Wikipedia page. Some parents now blame the school for not acting earlier; others blame Wikipedia. Back on Wikipedia, users are deliberating on whether to make mention of the shooting threats in the school's Wikipedia article.

Other recent mentions in the online media include:

• University's defence straight off Wikipedia – Griffith University staff apparently copied content from Wikipedia when writing a response to claims made in a newspaper.
• 'Free' Can Disrupt Your Business – Yes, free can disrupt your business, as the Encyclopedia Britannica is finding out.
• Germany to Get Printed Version Wikipedia – "The One Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia" will contain content related to almost 50,000 widely used terms from the German Wikipedia.

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