Dissident Veteran for Peace
From the
Jerusalem Post of December 8, 2007:
In an acknowledgement of the importance thatSee also:
the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has in
shaping opinion, the Foreign Ministry is bringing
one of its leading editors, David Shankbone,
to Israel next week.
According to a communiqué put out by the ministry,
Shankbone has carried out dozens of interviews of US
personalities for Wikipedia, including presidential
candidates, religious leaders, rock stars and journalists.
Shankbone will be visiting within the framework of a
delegation of technology writers being brought to
Israel by the Foreign Ministry and the America-Israel
Friendship League.
Explaining the rationale for bringing Shankbone to Israel,
David Saranga, the spokesman at the consulate in
New York, said: "More than once we have faced editors
connected to Israel that appear on Wikipedia in English
that do not represent the reality in Israel.
We decided to initiate a visit by Shankbone to describe
Israeli reality as it is."
Wikipedia, according to the Foreign Ministry, is the
eighth largest web site in the world, with some 60
million visitors a day, or some 14,000 hits a second.
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