Ordinary Gweilo

I’ve been sick all week, but I’m gradually recovering. The trouble is that I am now sufficiently recovered that I can’t put off the work I’m supposed to be doing, but not enough to do justice to anything else at the same time.

Does anyone else look at Wikipedia? The concept is that this is a free encylopedia entirely consisting of comments added by users. I sometimes come across entries when I do a Google search, and the problem is that the information is not totally reliable.

For example, I found this on the Hong Kong History page:

In 2003, the worsening economy, the SARS health crisis, the to-be legislation of Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 and the unpopularity of Tung Chee Hwa and his officials led to a half million people’s march on July 1,

SARS? It had nothing to do with SARS! It was about the anti-subversion legislation and Tung Chee-Hwa.

Now the question is whether you jump in and correct it, or just ignore it. Is this a useful project or just a bunch of people wasting their time?