“I suggest to follow the reblogging of the first commentary / joke who was posted on Wikimedia’s status page regarding the Wikipedia crashdown which happened this afternoon:

Jimmy : And so we remember Thursday, March 25, 2010 as the day every English speaking student failed their research papers.

Since around 3 pm this quote got reblogged at least 58 times (indexed by Google), it is now 7 pm ET. Here’s the link for the search : LINK.

Explanation : “Correction of the year — This year’s winner is without question amusing — not to mention embarrassing for the news organization that published it — in that it demonstrates a certain amount of cultural/musical ignorance. But it earns Correction of the Year honors because of what happened after it was published. This Washington Post correction inspired an amusing Twitter hashtag, which saw people come together to come up with imagined corrections. It’s Correction of the Year because it communicates that people notice and care about corrections, and because it demonstrates the participatory potential being unleashed by the Internet.”

About Craig Silverman: “Freelance journalist and author in Montreal. Associate Editor of PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab. Editor of RegretTheError.com and author of the book Regret the Error, as well as the co-author of Mafiaboy. Columnist for Columbia Journalism Review and Hour.”