When you read the word “santorum”, what do you think of? A small minority of people apparently believe it refers to an obscure American politician:
The world’s Wikifiddlers are obsessed with santorum. Though they can’t agree on what that is.
For some, it’s a word. For others, it’s not: it’s the result of a campaign to create a word. The distinction — however subtle — has sparked weeks of controversy among the core contributors to Wikipedia, the “free encyclopedia anyone can edit”. If you find this hard to believe, you’ve never been to Wikiland — and you’ve never Googled “Rick Santorum”.
Famously, Rick Santorum — the former Pennsylvania Senator and a Republican candidate for president of the United States — has a Google problem. But he also has a Wikipedia problem. And the two go hand-in-hand.
If nothing else, the whole controversy has added another variant meaning to the term “to be savaged”.
