WIRED EDITOR CHARGED WITH PLAGIARISM

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The editor-in-chief of Wired magazine has gotten himself tangled in charges he plagiarized passages in his upcoming book from the popular Web encyclopedia Wikipedia and other sources without attribution.

Calling it a mistake that was both “sloppy and inexcusable,” Chris Anderson offered a mea culpa on his Web site and said he planned to credit the passages in the online version of the book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” which is set to go on sale on July 7.

“This was sloppy and inexcusable, but the part I feel worst about is that in our failure to find a good way to cite Wikipedia as the source, we ended up not crediting it at all,” Anderson posted.

Hyperion, which plans an 80,000-copy first printing, seems satisfied with Anderson’s explanation.

“We are completely satisfied with Chris Anderson’s response. It was an unfortunate mistake, and we are working with the author to correct these errors both in the electronic edition before it posts, and in all future editions of the book.”

The plagiarism claim originated with the small but respected Virginia Quarterly Review, which found a dozen passages that were reproduced nearly verbatim and without attribution from Wikipedia.

Anderson said that as he prepared his manuscript, he intended to block quote passages and, where appropriate, provide Web links to those elements taken from online sources including Wikipedia.

However, he said Hyperion’s editors were uncomfortable with the fact that Wikipedia entrees can be constantly updated and felt it should include a date and time stamp for each link.
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