At 05:46 UTC on March 11 2011, a 8.9 Richter Scale earthquake hit Japan. It was the largest ever recorded and 6th largest ever known happened. It was followed by a devastating tsunami of up to 10 m that has erased entire communities and killed 100s. Just to put it into scale, 80,000 are currently reported missing ... a whole train full of people has disappeared without trace. As night engulfs the nation, the full scale of damage is unknown.
By 06:18 UTC on 11 March 2011 Gnuismail (T-C-L-K-R-D)
had erected a 2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami topic page.
By 12:06 UTC on 11 March 2011 it had to be protected against "persistent vandalism" by such dicks in the USA adding "8.9 Godzilla" to it, or IP editors reporting "over 9000-meter tsunami" hitting Sendai. Our angel Alison being on the case. Oh, and
a naming dispute,
an edit war or two over links,
an image dispute (here).
By 15:15, 11 March on 2011 even the God King Jimbo Wales made a visitation announcing ...
QUOTE
"There are trolls everywhere; we have the tools to defeat them!!!".
I suppose this is emergency "disaster response" Wikipedia style?
Of course, I lose too because ... as people are still trapped under mud and debris of collapsed tower blocks, millions of workers are stuck in cities without transport out or even electricity, individuals have no contact with lost family and loved ones, tsunami alerts remain for aftershocks, complete communities have been entirely erased, and a nuclear power station is at the point of melt down (!!!) ... here I am bitching about crass Wikipedian activity.
Writing as someone indirectly effected by it, with friends or acquaintances and their family beyond any contact and likely lost, I can tell you it feels a little different. Feather in your cap Gnuismail for the win for being first to start the page. Let me nail a barnstar on you personally.
Are there some ethics to be discussed about this?
Shouldn't they really wait until events are actually over until they start documenting them!?!
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2011 Earthquake and Tsunami
