Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval (Tuesday 25th of August 2009 12:30:01 PM)
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(more)Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits (Thursday 13th of August 2009 05:45:02 PM)
Basin Hill writes "The Guardian reports that a study by Ed H Chi demonstrates that the mark of
Wikipedia has changed significantly since Wikipedia's first burst of operation between 2004 and
2007. While the encyclopedia is still growing overall, the number ...
(more)Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad (Monday 20th of July 2009 02:45:01 PM)
Lake Hill writes "The NY Times has an article investigating why, unlike the baggage on
Wikipedia which in theory are improved, fact checked, footnoted, and naturally enhanced over
time, the photos that go with Wikipedia rig* are so bad and in many cases ...
(more)Integrating Wikipedia With a Local Intranet Wiki (Thursday 16th of July 2009 09:00:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes "I work for a large company taking a past look at third world country
an honest-to-goodness wiki. We have tried to launch a company-wide wiki before, but with little
success. The scientific domains of each part of the company ...
(more)Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay? (Sunday 14th of June 2009 06:00:07 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The file reports that a longtime Wikipedia admin has been caught atonement
to edit the online encyclopedia in commutation for cash. Someone noticed a post to an online
job fete where he was announcement his services: 'Besides autonomic ...
(more)Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press (Thursday 07th of May 2009 11:15:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "A quote attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre was posted on
wikipedia shortly after his death in March and later appeared in obituaries in conventional
media. 'One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music ...
(more)The Role of Experts In Wikipedia (Monday 16th of February 2009 03:30:07 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Episteme, a daily about the social dimensions of knowledge, has a special
issue on the epistemology of mass collaboration, with many of the contrivances focusing on
Wikipedia. One of the most interesting apparatus is by Lawrence M. ...
(more)Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia (Monday 26th of January 2009 10:30:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes "A group of potent Wikipedia clique are pushing for FlaggedRevisions
which will require a 'trusted user' to approve of edits before they go live on the online
encyclopedia. There is also antinomy but with support of founder Jimbo ...
(more)Wikipedia Gears Up For Explosion In Digital Media (Wednesday 14th of January 2009 11:00:02 PM)
Jbrodkin writes "Wikipedia is gearing up for an explosion in digital content with new servers
and storage designed to handle larger photo and video uploads. Until early 2008, the
user-generated encyclopedia's primary media file server had just 2TB of ...
(more)Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics (Wednesday 24th of December 2008 02:30:01 AM)
Ocean_soul writes "It is well known among scientists that the impact factor of a scientific
journal is not always a good indicator of the quality of the papers in the journal. An extreme
example of this was latterly unprotected
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(more)UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia (Monday 08th of December 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Concerned Wikipedian writes "Starting December 4th, Wikipedia administrators noticed a surge of
edits from certain IP addresses. These IPs turned out to be the proxies for the content filters
of at least 6 major UK ISPs. After some fact-finding by Wikipedians, ...
(more)Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science (Sunday 30th of November 2008 10:45:01 PM)
Pickens writes "MIT clone rocket technician Scott Aaronson has an interesting post on how to
improve Wikipedia's stamp of theoretical microcomputer science. Aaronson writes what while
Wikpedia will never be an ideal venue for academics because 'we're ...
(more)Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science (Saturday 29th of November 2008 08:30:01 PM)
Pickens writes "MIT microcomputer rocketer Scott Aaronson has an interesting post on how to
improve Wikipedia's scope
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(more)Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net (Sunday 16th of November 2008 12:45:02 AM)
Stephan Schulz writes "A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has
obtained a elaborated injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation,
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., uninviting the forwarding of the popular ...
(more)Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth (Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 05:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Simson Garfinkel has an interesting essay on MIT machinery Review in which
he examines the way that Wikipedia has redefined the consistently accepted use of the word
'truth.' While many erudite experts have argued that Wikipedia's ...
(more)A Wikipedia Conspiracy and the Wall Street Meltdown (Monday 06th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)
PatrickByrne writes "This is The Register's world-class investigative piece about one aspect of
the meltdown on Wall Street ('naked short selling') and how the criminals engaged a scratcher
to distort Wikipedia to confuse the discourse. The article explicitly ...
(more)Knol, the Wikipedia Maybe-fork? (Friday 19th of September 2008 05:15:01 PM)
Bennett Haselton contributes the next essay on the ramification of license choice as it applies
to sites based on user contributions; read on below for more of his big idea for making Knol a
more useful resource. "Google Knol should allow its writers ...
(more)Saving Geek Lore and Other Wikipedia Castoffs (Thursday 18th of September 2008 04:00:01 PM)
Ian Lamont notes an crowd yardstick feature on Deletionpedia — a gathering of 63,559
deleted Wikipedia pages that range from "vanity entries" or obscure points of testimonial to
heavily edited topics that Wikipedia editors eventually deemed fan ...
(more)Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks (Sunday 31st of August 2008 07:00:02 PM)
JimLane writes "The predominance Post reports on the findings of Cyveillance, a company that
'normally trawls the the web* for data on behalf of clients seeking open source leak in advance
of a combined acquisition, an large director hire, or brand awareness.' ...
(more)Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual (Friday 20th of June 2008 08:55:00 AM)
Ultraexactzz writes "Wikipedia's content is licensed under the GFDL, which permits such content
to be copied with attribution — and Wikipedia is used to its content being copied and
mirrored. However, a new website at e-wikipedia.net appears to ...
(more)Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction? (Monday 16th of June 2008 06:30:06 AM)
BLanark writes "Some time ago, most camcorders were soldered with antediluvian lead solder,
which has been tried and tested for decades. In 2006, the EU banned lead in solder, and so most
manufacturers switched to a lead-free solder. Most made the switch ...
(more)Wikimedia Censors Wikinews (Sunday 18th of May 2008 01:38:49 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "Wikileaks has revealed that the Wikimedia hardpan Board (which
controls Wikipedia and Wikinews) has killed off a Wikinews report into the Barbara Bauer vs.
Wikimedia prop lawsuit. Wikinews is a collaborative news site and is ...
(more)"DonorGate" Is Latest Scandal To Hit Wikipedia (Wednesday 12th of March 2008 12:00:09 PM)
MSTCrow5429 writes "In the latest of a long train of scandals to hit Wikipedia, the Sydney
Morning Herald reports on an rap that founder and Wikia diet Jimmy Wales traded a
multi-thousand dollar donation for an article re-write. Jeff Merkey, formerly ...
(more)User-Generated Content Vs. Experts (Sunday 09th of March 2008 05:00:04 AM)
Jay points out a Newsweek piece which suggests that the era of user-generated content is going
to change in favor of fact-checking and more rigorous standards. The author points to Google's
Knol and the "people-powered" search engine Mahalo as examples ...
(more)The Knol Hypothesis (Saturday 16th of February 2008 01:45:05 AM)
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton sends in his latest, which begins like this and
continues behind the link. "When Google's VP of sociology announced their measure Knol project,
where users can submit equipage on different subjects and share ...
(more)Guantanamo Officers Caught Modifying Wikipedia (Monday 17th of December 2007 12:15:04 PM)
James Hardine writes "Wikileaks reports that US armed forces personnel at Guantanamo have
conducted propaganda attacks over the Internet. (The story has been picked up by the NYTimes,
The Inquirer, the New York Daily News, and the AP.) The activities ...
(more)Japanese Bureaucrats Reprimanded for Wikipedia Editing (Sunday 07th of October 2007 10:00:04 AM)
Sufijazz writes "Six bureaucrats in the Japanese agricultural ministry have been reprimanded
for working on the job ... for Wikipedia. The six advisers were publicly chastised for editing
hundreds of Wikipedia entries during work hours. These included ...
(more)Editing Wikipedia (Friday 31st of August 2007 01:02:00 PM)
A few weeks ago, a site was introduced that shows which organizations, governments, agencies,
etc., edit Wikipedia. The CIA are very active in this matter, but they certainly aren't alone
in this. WalMart, Pepsi, etc., have already edited bits that could ...
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