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Kittengate[edit]

How MacKinnon and a colleague once 'vandalised' this article to show students how Wikipedia works.

This article was vandalised twice by David D. Weinberger of Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society. [1] He may think he's entitled to do that because of who he is, but it was really pretty lame. You can't make a meaningful point about how Wikipedia compares with traditional reference sources by vandalising an article about someone who wouldn't come close to getting an article in one. Piccadilly 01:35, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The "kitten-eating cyborg" meme isn't worth its own article, and you are welcome to argue that it isn't important enough to be in this stub, but I wouldn't call any content that comes with a valid reference 'vandalism'. +sj + 05:12, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article Rebecca MacKinnon was vandalized by "Samuel J. Klein [Harvard class of 19]’99, who introduced himself as a Wikipedia administrator and steward" as Kittenmarks at 23:27, 15 March 2006 (UTC) in this edit to state 'She is regularly referred to as a "kitten-eating cyborg", for reasons that are not entirely clear.' according to The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Fellow: Is Wikipedia Legit?. The vandalism was continued by 140.247.249.189, AaronSw, Dweinberger, 66.108.224.98, 62.25.109.6, Molindo, Rompe, and 67.181.63.245. This nonsense was first reverted by Eloquence at 10:08, 16 March 2006 (UTC) in this edit. This appears to be a continuation of a joke started January 19, 2005 at Dohiyi Mir: New Horrible Evidence Of Evil Kitten-Eating Cyborgs and referenced at Anonymous Whistleblower Accuses Berkman Fellows of Ceremonially Feasting Upon Live Kittens, formerly Rebecca Mackinnon: Kitten Eater (and she's rumored to hate both America and Jesus, too. She's also a rapper.), The Censoring of the Self | Nick Lewis: The Blog , Kittengate | Nick Lewis: The Blog, RConversation: Kittengate, Conference F.A.Q., EVIL CYBORGS ATTACK!: Evil Cyborgs Assimmilate Harvard!!!!!!!, EVIL CYBORGS ATTACK!: NO WORRIES, PROMINENT BLOGGERS!!!, Bill O'Reilly Gives his Take on Kittengate | The Progressive Blog Alliance HQ, Blogging, Journalism & Credibility » Disclaimers, and Dohiyi Mir: Resistance Is Futile.[reply]

I also noticed that the subject of the article (as Rmackinnon) has been adding unreferenced data to her own bio on Wikipedia. Doesn't that practice violate Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Autobiography?

I think the info above belongs in the article. -- Jeff G. (talk|contribs|links|watch|logs) 01:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The paragraph does not belong in the article. WP:ASR#Articles are about their subjects tells us that articles are about their subjects; they are not about the articles themselves. The addition is almost entirely about vandalism to this article, thus it is about the article itself and not really about the subject of this article. Aside from that, the addition is not Wikified, making it difficult to read. · j e r s y k o talk · 03:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Public letter to Obama[edit]

Rebecca MacKinnon on January 28, 2009 published an open letter to President Obama http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/01/dear-president-obama-in-talking-to-china-remember-its-people.html, I think this is a very important document. I nominate this Open-letter to be included into Wikisource. Arilang ^talk 09:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

current location and job[edit]

as reported in a blog post by herself at the beginning of January, she is not living in hong kong anymore. And she takes a job at Princeton to have the time to write a book. -- 131.220.192.81 (talk) 09:54, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Links to bios at various websites[edit]

While tidying up the list of external links, I found the bios of Ms MacKinnon at the websites of her post-CNN work places. I thought I might as well record them for future use. Here they are:

2004 - 2006	Berkman Center for Internet and Society	Harvard
2007 - 2008	Journalism and Media Studies Center	University of Hong Kong
2009	Soros Open Society Institute
2010	Center for Information Technology Policy	Princeton
Fall 2010 - present	New America Foundation

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