Media flurry leads to identifying writer of Seigenthaler "prank"
A week of heavy media coverage about Wikipedia, the complaint from John Seigenthaler Sr. (see archived story), and the experiment restricting "anonymous" article creation (see archived story), culminated in a New York Times story identifying the author of the article Seigenthaler complained about.
The shift in Wikipedia practices was covered by the Associated Press and widely reported as a result, but some outlets also provided their own reporting on these events. USA Today, where Seigenthaler wrote the piece that set the media in motion, published a new article, "It's online, but is it true?", bringing his story together with that of Adam Curry (see archived story) and exploring the reliability of information on Wikipedia and the Internet in general. CNET focused on Wikipedia repeatedly throughout the week, with articles that ranged from contrasting Wikipedia's editing system with the processes of open-source software, to reviewing some of the legal implications of the incident (law professors quoted here and elsewhere have suggested that Wikipedia is, like most internet service providers, largely immune from liability here).