Boing Boing: NYT changes, back-dates article after Wikipedia fact-checkers find error

Sometime yesterday, the entire last section of the NYT article, which (according to the NYT website) was NYT’s most emailed article for the last two days, was changed …

No letter or correction has been issued, however, calling attention to this error.

It seems safe to assume that most folks who were going to read the article have already done so, and will never know that the facts have been corrected.

I have no opinion on the the Wikipedia good/evil debate but I find it both funny that they corrected an error in the New York Times and sad that the Times has not admitted to the correction.