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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Oliver Burkeman

The presidential campaign that anyone can edit

John McCain, by his own admission, is a bit confused by computers, but it seems as though he might, nonetheless, have been borrowing his public statements on the Georgia crisis from Wikipedia. "Given the closeness of the words and sentence structure," as CQ Politics puts it, "most would consider parts of McCain's speech to be derived directly from Wikipedia." Quick -- if someone hurries and rewrites the Wikipedia pages on terrorism, energy policy and healthcare we could be in for some really funny campaign speeches. [CQ Politics]

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