Threat Level: Wikipedia Struggles With John Edwards Love-Child Rumor
july 2008 by McChris
Wikipedia editors do not consider The National Enquirer a sufficiently reliable source for article information, at least on controversial issues. Conservatives are crying foul after allegations about the politician were spiked from the article.
wikipedia
politics
politics2.0
july 2008 by McChris
NYRB: The Charms of Wikipedia
march 2008 by McChris
NIcholson Baker reviews O'Reilly's Wikipedia: The Missing Manual.
wikipedia
wiki
epistemology
to:read
march 2008 by McChris
Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia founder's fling with Fox News fox
march 2008 by McChris
Gossip blog Valleywag alleges Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has a romantic relationship with a Canadian broadcaster compared to Ann Coulter.
wikipedia
hmm
cable
march 2008 by McChris
Slate: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy
february 2008 by McChris
In this article, Chris Wilson argues that collaborative sites like Digg and WIkipedia aren't as democratic as one might think because they rely on elite groups of users for much of the decision-making.
Web2.0
wikipedia
production
bubbler
february 2008 by McChris
Wikipedia Idiots: The Edit Wars of San Francisco
february 2008 by McChris
A reporter tries to track down a notorious WIkipedia troll, with limited results.
wikipedia
trolling
february 2008 by McChris
NYTimes: At Wikipedia, Illustrators May Be Paid
december 2007 by McChris
I don't know, $40 for an illustration sounds pretty low-ball to me. This seems to confirm the idea that open production models devalue contributions.
production
wikipedia
hmm
december 2007 by McChris
WikiPediaVision (beta)
october 2007 by McChris
It's like Twittervision for Wikipedia!
awesome
wikipedia
map
mashup
october 2007 by McChris
AlterNet: MediaCulture: Will Unethical Editing Destroy Wikipedia's Credibility?
october 2007 by McChris
This question presumes that Wikipedia has any credibility to start with, but I don't welcome the arrival of "communications professionals" to its editor's ranks.
wikipedia
publicrelations
totalcorporatedouches
october 2007 by McChris
CIO.com: Wikipedia's Awkward Adolescence
september 2007 by McChris
OMG, the anarchists have become bureaucrats!
wikipedia
hierarchy
production
september 2007 by McChris
Rough Type: The island of misfit Wikipedia articles
september 2007 by McChris
Nick Carr laments the success of deletionists at trimming Wikipedia of marginal topics.
production
wikipedia
september 2007 by McChris
NIck Carr: Rise of the wikicrats
september 2007 by McChris
"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
Rough Type: Stabbing Polonius
april 2007 by McChris
Nick Carr takes aim at the idea that Wikipedia – or any encyclopedia – can be representative of the sum of human knowledge.
epistemology
production
wikipedia
april 2007 by McChris
Rough Type: Wikipedia's credentialism crisis
march 2007 by McChris
"Essjay's great sin - the reason Wales ultimately sent him into exile - wasn't that he lied to the press but that he hoodwinked his fellow Wikipedians, that he used his fake credentials to get them to grant him deference in editing articles."
wikipedia
thereal
academic
march 2007 by McChris
techPresident: Wikipedia's Expansive Influence in Candidate Search Results
february 2007 by McChris
Fred Stutzman queried Google for the names of presidential contenders and noted the result order (not PageRank) of their official sites and their Wikipedia entries. Wikipedia won in many cases.
google
politics
wikipedia
february 2007 by McChris
Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia
february 2007 by McChris
Ars Technica explains the mode of production on Larry Sanger's rival to Wikipedia.
wiki
wikipedia
production
Web2.0
february 2007 by McChris
The use of Wikipedia in higher education
february 2007 by McChris
Jason Mittell proposes a guideline for using WIkipedia for class projects.
wikipedia
education
media_studies
february 2007 by McChris
Wikipedia's Wales: Damn the advertising, full speed ahead!
february 2007 by McChris
Jason Calcanis is encouraging Wikipedia to add advertising to meet operational costs.
wikipedia
advertising
Web2.0
february 2007 by McChris
Wikipedia (A)
february 2007 by McChris
Harvard Business School case study on Wikipedia
wikipedia
business
wiki
Web2.0
february 2007 by McChris
10 Zen Monkeys: Jimmy Wales Will Destroy Google
january 2007 by McChris
RU Sirius interviews Jimmy Wales.
interview
wikipedia
Web2.0
january 2007 by McChris
Federal Agency Cleans Up Its Own Wikipedia Entry
january 2007 by McChris
What is the National Institute on Drug Abuse smoking? Don't they know people can identify their IP addresses?
wikipedia
drugs
stupid
january 2007 by McChris
Wikipedia Nofollows Links
january 2007 by McChris
All outbound links in Wikipedia will now use the "nofollow" attribute, which instructs search engines like Google to ignore whatever reputation the link may provide.
wikipedia
spam
SEO
google
january 2007 by McChris
Citizendium dumps Wikipedia
january 2007 by McChris
Nick Carr says the experts involved with the project were frustrated with cleaning up lame Wikipedia articles.
wikipedia
wiki
january 2007 by McChris
Web 2.0 Most Cited Wikipedia Entry of the Year
january 2007 by McChris
And with that, teh Internets collapsed in on itself.
Web2.0
wikipedia
january 2007 by McChris
Crooked Timber: The Wealth of Networks seminar
january 2007 by McChris
I wish I had seen this a few months ago. Actually, I probably saw it in May, and hadn't read the book yet.
economics
production
freeculture
CreativeCommons
wikipedia
january 2007 by McChris
Cultural Differences in Collaborative Authoring of Wikipedia
december 2006 by McChris
Academic study of differences between various European-language versions of Wikipedia.
academic
wikipedia
authorship
december 2006 by McChris
AlterNet: Wikipedia vs. Women
december 2006 by McChris
"WikiChix was recently formed by women contributors sick of how male-dominated Wikipedia has become," Annalee Newitz says.
wikipedia
feminism
gender
power
december 2006 by McChris
An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility
november 2006 by McChris
Subject area experts seem to find articles about their field more reliable than non-experts.
wikipedia
academic
thereal
november 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia CD Distributed over BitTorrent
november 2006 by McChris
An educational group has created a "gold" version of Wikipedia for burning to CD and use at educational institutions.
wikipedia
education
bittorrent
november 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala
november 2006 by McChris
This amusing spoof of "Encyclopedia Brown" actually contains a useful explanation of how to read Wikipedia critically.
wikipedia
humor
november 2006 by McChris
Social Facts, Expertise, Citizendium, and Carr
november 2006 by McChris
Clay Shirky elaborates on how he thinks the notion of "social facts" applies to peer-produced projects like Wikipedia and Larry Sanger's emphasis on expertise will grind Citizendium to a halt.
wikipedia
production
freeculture
november 2006 by McChris
Infothought: Wikipedia, and the difficulties of criticizing digital-sharecropping
november 2006 by McChris
Seth Finkelstein contrasts the opportunities for exploiting unpaid labor in Web 2.0 projects and the communalist discourses that surround Wikipedia.
wikipedia
Web2.0
production
november 2006 by McChris
Jimmy Wales resigns Wikipedia Chair
november 2006 by McChris
Wow, I find this surprising. The item doesn't provide a lot of explanation, but hopefully details will filter out over the next few days.
wikipedia
whoa
november 2006 by McChris
The Chronicle: Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?
october 2006 by McChris
Chonicle of Higher Education on Wikipedia's production methods and its use in the academy. Largely a rehash of Roy Rosenweig's "Can History be Open Source."
wikipedia
education
Web2.0
academic
production
october 2006 by McChris
CBSNews.com teams with Answers.com
october 2006 by McChris
Alt-clicking on a word at CBSnews.com will pull up an Answers.com entry, most of which are pulled from Wikipedia. I sort of doubt users will catch on to this design trick (and I couldn't get it to work on my Mac), but it's interesting nonethel
wikipedia
design
TV
freeculture
october 2006 by McChris
Andrew Lih: Wikipedia vs. Citizendium
september 2006 by McChris
Andrew Lih expresses skepticism about Citizendium.
wikipedia
production
september 2006 by McChris
Many-to-Many: Larry Sanger on me on Citizendium.
september 2006 by McChris
Larry Sanger responds to Clay Shirky's criticism of his Citizendium fork of Wikipedia.
wikipedia
wiki
production
september 2006 by McChris
Larry Sanger, Citizendium, and the Problem of Expertise (Clay Shirky)
september 2006 by McChris
Clay Shirky manages to allude to Durkheim in his thoughtful critique of Larry Sanger's Citizendium fork.
wikipedia
academic
production
september 2006 by McChris
WOS4: Citizendium
september 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia co-founder and critic Larry Sanger is forking Wikipedia into a new project called Citizendium, which will have tighter controls over editing.
wikipedia
freeculture
Web2.0
september 2006 by McChris
WSJ.com: Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?
september 2006 by McChris
I think this conversation between Jimmy Wales and Britannica editor-in-chief Dale Hoiberg must have taken place via email.
wikipedia
interview
production
september 2006 by McChris
Raw Thought: Who Writes Wikipedia?
september 2006 by McChris
Aaron Schwartz crunched the numbers and it seems that a core group of 500 editors do most of the grunt work on Wikipedia, while most new content comes from casual users.
wikipedia
production
statistics
politics
power
september 2006 by McChris
Slashdot | More Wiki Than Ever
september 2006 by McChris
Jimmy Wales writes to Slashdot to address concerns about the editorial system being tested in Germany.
wikipedia
slashdot
wiki
power
september 2006 by McChris
NYTimes: African Languages Grow as a Presence on Wikipedia
august 2006 by McChris
This news is a little stale, but it's nice to see The Gray Lady address this issue.
Africa
wikipedia
august 2006 by McChris
Steven Levy: Poking a Stick Into The 'Hive Mind'
august 2006 by McChris
Levy provides a lightweight overview and critique of Jaron Lanier's argument that collaborative filtering and peer production create "Digital Maoism."
production
wikipedia
august 2006 by McChris
FT.com: A closed mind about an open world
august 2006 by McChris
James Boyle discusses how open modes of production can seem counter-intutive to many people, yet produce a quality product.
opensource
production
CreativeCommons
economics
psychology
wikipedia
august 2006 by McChris
Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
august 2006 by McChris
A historian looks at wikipedia and its mode of production.
academic
wikipedia
authorship
history
production
august 2006 by McChris
The Atlantic Monthly: The Hive
august 2006 by McChris
Another venerable magazine runs a feature on Wikipedia. This one is good at describing the multiple forces that came together to form the project, rather than a single threaded narrative about Jimbo Wales.
wikipedia
production
opensource
history
august 2006 by McChris
The New Yorker Covers Wikipedia
july 2006 by McChris
Here's a blog post that compares the fact-checking processes between mass-circulation magazines and Wikipedia. In my experience, fact-checking at trade magazines is not as stringent, and I understand that newspapers are similarly loose.
wikipedia
production
magazine
thereal
july 2006 by McChris
Annals of Information: Know it All
july 2006 by McChris
The New Yorker has a long feature about Wikipedia and its user communities. It even mentions the Boston Molasses Disaster.
wikipedia
history
opensource
production
july 2006 by McChris
Dirk Riehle: How and Why Wikipedia Works
july 2006 by McChris
Via Slashdot, interviews with prominent Wikipedia editors.
wikipedia
production
academic
interview
july 2006 by McChris
Collectivate.net - 'journalisms' - Collective Action
july 2006 by McChris
This is an interesting rant about commons-based peer production, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, and all that jazz.
production
del.icio.us
wikipedia
surveillance
politicaleconomy
Web2.0
july 2006 by McChris
Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia
july 2006 by McChris
In my opinion, Wikipedia's struggles to provide quality information about breaking news aren't any worse than the mainstream media's, but a Reuters reporter apparently thinks so.
wikipedia
news
citizensmedia
journalism
july 2006 by McChris
The real bias in Wikipedia: a response to David Shariatmadari by Robert McHenry
june 2006 by McChris
The Encyclopaedia Britannica editor turned professional troll splits hairs over the Countering Systemic Bias Wikiproject.
wikipedia
globalization
ethics
june 2006 by McChris
US State Department abuses Wikipedia
may 2006 by McChris
Little Inquirer story about how the US State Department is using content from Wikipedia. I think the author has the US Secretary of State (Condi Rice) confused with a state official with a similar title.
co-optation
politics
power
wikipedia
may 2006 by McChris
The Great Failure of Wikipedia
april 2006 by McChris
Transcript of a speech with very insightful criticisms of Wikipedia.
design
media
Web2.0
wikipedia
april 2006 by McChris
Guardian Unlimited Technology | A thirst for knowledge
april 2006 by McChris
Here's the Guardian story about Wikitruth.info and Wikipedia burnout more generally.
wikipedia
Web2.0
production
april 2006 by McChris
Main Page - Wikitruth
april 2006 by McChris
Via Slashdot, a site devoted to Wikipedia articles that have been deleted, frozen, or otherwise hidden for presumably political reasons.
freeculture
politics
Web2.0
power
wikipedia
april 2006 by McChris
Open-source business | Open, but not as usual
march 2006 by McChris
ECONOMIST story on how for-profit businesses are adopting open-source modes of production.
opensource
production
business
wikipedia
march 2006 by McChris
Wiki attacks join political warfare - OrlandoSentinel.com
march 2006 by McChris
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
march 2006 by McChris
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
Viridian Note 00459: Emerging Technology 2006
march 2006 by McChris
Bruce Sterling's keynote from Oreilly's Emerging Technology conference. Too bad there's not audio, since Sterling's delivery is terrific.
Web2.0
wikipedia
march 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia Founder Defends Process
march 2006 by McChris
interview with Jimmy Wales
wikipedia
citizensmedia
march 2006 by McChris
Qwika
march 2006 by McChris
Multilingual Wikipedia search engine. The site was down when I tried to load it.
wikipedia
searchengine
wiki
semantic_web
march 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia Traffic Booms to New York Times Traffic Levels
march 2006 by McChris
I'm not sure comparing Wikipedia to news sites is apples-to-apples, but it's pretty darn impressive.
wikipedia
Web2.0
march 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid’s All Right (And So’s the Old Man)
march 2006 by McChris
Article from a reference-desk perspective contrasting Wikipedia and Britannica.
wikipedia
wiki
march 2006 by McChris
English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article
march 2006 by McChris
and it's about a Scottish train station.
wikipedia
wiki
Web2.0
march 2006 by McChris
Wikimania
february 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia conference coming to Cambridge Mass.
wikipedia
Web2.0
conference
february 2006 by McChris
Meehan's staff acknowledges editing broken pledge from online bio - Boston.com
january 2006 by McChris
Political aides remove unflattering information from Wikipedia
wiki
wikipedia
politics
january 2006 by McChris
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