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Freebase
"Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed graph database with more than 22 million entities."
opendata  wiki 
10 weeks ago by McChris
NYTimes: The Wiki-Way to the Nomination
I missed this article from last week that uses wiki publishing as a metaphor for much of the cultural production surrounding the Obama campaign.
wiki  Web2.0  politics2.0  elections 
june 2008 by McChris
Threat Level: Democrats Launch McCainpedia, An Attack Site Masquerading As A Wiki
I don't really understand why people object to the DNC restricting write access to a wiki used for internal research.
wiki  politics2.0  elections 
may 2008 by McChris
NYRB: The Charms of Wikipedia
NIcholson Baker reviews O'Reilly's Wikipedia: The Missing Manual.
wikipedia  wiki  epistemology  to:read 
march 2008 by McChris
Bicycle Hacker: Welcome Bicycle Hackers!
Here's a wiki that allows cyclists to create pages describing bicycle hacking projects.
wiki  cycling  hack  transportation 
march 2008 by McChris
Obsolete Skills: Skills/Skills
This wiki allows users to list skills they believe have been make obsolete by changing technology.
technology  wiki  history 
february 2008 by McChris
TPM Muckraker: U.S. Court Shuts Down Whistleblower Site
A California judge has ordered an ISP to stop DNS service for Wikileaks.org at the request of a Swiss bank.
wiki  law  censorship  surveillance 
february 2008 by McChris
How Experts Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Schwinn
This wiki site is for a business book about the social facets of expertise and how expertise can lead to poor consequences.
business  wiki  technology  cycling 
december 2007 by McChris
ArtSoftware
"ArtSoftware.org is a wiki for sharing information about free and open source art software!"
opensource  wiki  art 
december 2007 by McChris
Knowmore.org: American Apparel, LLC
This wiki page discusses the misdeeds of trendy clothing label American Apparel. Although it makes much out of the fact its shops are in the US, AA's labor relations are problematic.
labor  clothing  wiki 
november 2007 by McChris
NIck Carr: Rise of the wikicrats
"As Wikipedia has grown, it has developed a bureaucracy that is remarkable not only for the intricacies of its hierarchy but for the breadth and complexity of its rules."
wiki  wikipedia  production  hierarchy 
september 2007 by McChris
Common Craft Video: Wikis in Plain English
This video describes how to use a wiki as a collaboration tool in organizations.
video  howto  wiki  knowledge_management 
may 2007 by McChris
Newbie's Guide to the Semantic Web
Gareth Branwyn's discussion might be useful in explaining how the semantic web is different from Web 2.0.
wiki  metadata  semantic_web 
may 2007 by McChris
New Media Art - Nothing - Mark Tribe
Brown University is hosting a wikified version of Mark Tribe's recent book on computer-based art.
art  books  newmedia  net.art  wiki 
april 2007 by McChris
Slate: Testing out Wikitravel. by TIm Wu
Law professor Tim Wu used WikiTravel as a guide on a trip to Thailand with disappointing results.
travel  UGC  wiki 
april 2007 by McChris
Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia
Ars Technica explains the mode of production on Larry Sanger's rival to Wikipedia.
wiki  wikipedia  production  Web2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
Wikipedia (A)
Harvard Business School case study on Wikipedia
wikipedia  business  wiki  Web2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
Howtopedia: simple technologies, simply shared
"Howtopedia is a collaborative project where all visitors can write and participate to a practical knowledge library."
wiki  useful 
january 2007 by McChris
Citizendium dumps Wikipedia
Nick Carr says the experts involved with the project were frustrated with cleaning up lame Wikipedia articles.
wikipedia  wiki 
january 2007 by McChris
27B Stroke 6: Wikileaks spilled
The archive of the email list used to organize Wikileaks has been posted online. Wikileaks seems like a really interesting project, partly because a wiki seems like the wrong software solution for their project.
wiki  surveillance  email 
january 2007 by McChris
EFF Defends Right to Link from Internet Wiki
A wiki critical of a prescription drug linked to leaked documents, leading to a lawsuit.
wiki  law  intellectualproperty 
january 2007 by McChris
wikileaks.org
This site aims to be a wiki filled with leaked documetns in an effort to promote government transparency.
wiki  citizensmedia 
january 2007 by McChris
Media Threat
This NY Press story suggests Web 2.0 projects will replace the professional media. I thought blogs were going to do that.
Web2.0  wiki  blog 
december 2006 by McChris
Codev2:Lawrence Lessig
The second edition of Lessig's first book was developed on a wiki, and released today. Since I know it well, I'll have to poke around and look for new chapters or a changelog.
law  copyright  CreativeCommons  freeculture  wiki 
december 2006 by McChris
Reuters: U.S. intelligence unveils spy version of Wikipedia
I think this has been around since at least 2003, when a vandal added some text about WMD in Iraq.
wiki  CIA  weird 
november 2006 by McChris
Wikiality
A wiki chock full of truthiness. I'm not sure why we need this when there's Uncyclopedia, but maybe those "Colbert Report' fans aren't as Web-literate as I might hope.
wiki  satire  wikipedia  TV  cable 
october 2006 by McChris
Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Citizen Journalism
MediaShift has a lightweight overview of what Dan Gillmor calls "citizen media." I'm teaching a class on what media studies folks call alternative media, and this would have been nice to have at the start of the semester.
citizensmedia  journalism  blog  indymedia  useful  wiki 
september 2006 by McChris
ZineWiki
"ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press."
zine  wiki  indie  citizensmedia 
september 2006 by McChris
Many-to-Many: Larry Sanger on me on Citizendium.
Larry Sanger responds to Clay Shirky's criticism of his Citizendium fork of Wikipedia.
wikipedia  wiki  production 
september 2006 by McChris
Wired News: The Wiki That Edited Me
Post-mortem on Wired News' experiment with wiki journalism.
wiki  journalism 
september 2006 by McChris
You Cannot Create A Database Of All Obvious Ideas
Isn't this obvious?
patents  wiki  freeculture 
september 2006 by McChris
Slashdot | More Wiki Than Ever
Jimmy Wales writes to Slashdot to address concerns about the editorial system being tested in Germany.
wikipedia  slashdot  wiki  power 
september 2006 by McChris
Austin Bike Culture
The Yellow BIke Project is hosting a wiki for information about cycling events and history in Austin.
wiki  bicycle  austin  activism  transportation 
august 2006 by McChris
Wired News: Edit This Wired News Story
WIred magazine has uploaded a story about Wiki's to a wiki hosted by Socialtext and invites readers to edit it, which will run in a future issue – if it's not a disaster.
wiki  magazine  publishing  neato 
august 2006 by McChris
Appropedia
This wiki is completely outside my competencies, but this fascinating collects tutorials for sustainable technologies.
wiki  sustainability  landuse  DIY 
august 2006 by McChris
The Onion: Congress Abandons WikiConstitution
An Onion story related to wikis that's actually pretty clever.
satire  wiki  politics 
july 2006 by McChris
Socialtext Open
Socialtext (not to be confused with the infamous theory journal of the same name) has released an open-source version of their enterprise wiki product. I wondered when this would happen.
wiki  opensource  business  Web2.0 
july 2006 by McChris
Personals - Wikia
A wiki-based dating site seems like a phenomenally bad idea. Can a disgruntled ex edit your profile? Will the talk pages be filled with NPOV and source debates?
wiki  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
TechCrunch party list starts mayhem!
A Wiki is probably not the best way to manage a guest list for the hottest nerd party of the year.
wiki  geek  contest  business  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
OpenWiki
This is a wiki devoted to documenting issues related to anarchism and direct action activism. I'm not sure why they don't just start an anarchy WikiProject on Wikipedia, but the adminstrative structure there is increasingly hierarchical.
anarchism  wiki  activism  citizensmedia  politics 
july 2006 by McChris
SocialText/wikiCalc: More Interesting Than Google Spreadsheets
Oh snap, UT should buy a license of this Wiki spreadsheet to make the lives of its suffering TAs easier.
wiki  spreadsheet  useful 
june 2006 by McChris
LogoWiki
The site was down when I tried to check it out, but supposedly this is a wiki that allows you to execute Logo code on its pages.
education  wiki  neato 
june 2006 by McChris
WikiThePresidency
This wiki collects information about the misdeeds of the Republican Party and Bush administration.
crime  lies  citizensmedia  politics  wiki 
may 2006 by McChris
Wiki attacks join political warfare - OrlandoSentinel.com
Stupid non-news article revealing that Wikipedia articles on politicians are often sites of edit wars. Is Wikipedia doing a bad job of letting readers know it's an open-content project? Why do these lame stories keep coming out?
wikipedia  wiki  stupid  journalism 
march 2006 by McChris
Anonymous source is not the same as open source
NYTimes article skeptical of the authorship practices at Wikipedia. It argues that because Wikipedia contributors are often anonymous, the project lacks credibility.
wikipedia  Web2.0  wiki  authorship  production 
march 2006 by McChris
Wikispaces - A Place To Grow Communities
Free Wiki service provider
wiki  Web2.0  opensource  hosting 
march 2006 by McChris
Qwika
Multilingual Wikipedia search engine. The site was down when I tried to load it.
wikipedia  searchengine  wiki  semantic_web 
march 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid’s All Right (And So’s the Old Man)
Article from a reference-desk perspective contrasting Wikipedia and Britannica.
wikipedia  wiki 
march 2006 by McChris
English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article
and it's about a Scottish train station.
wikipedia  wiki  Web2.0 
march 2006 by McChris
Meehan's staff acknowledges editing broken pledge from online bio - Boston.com
Political aides remove unflattering information from Wikipedia
wiki  wikipedia  politics 
january 2006 by McChris
infoAnarchy Wiki
Wiki with a radical approach to copyright and free culture issues.
copyright  anarchism  wiki 
january 2006 by McChris

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