The on-again, off-again ban on the online encyclopedia by China’s Internet censors has been rescinded yet again.
Citizendium Forks Wikipedia
Skepticism abounds as the co-founder of Wikipedia plans to start a project fork of the anything-goes online encyclopedia with a new project that will abolish anonymous editing of topics and install topic experts to oversee the content.
Who Makes Wikipedia Work?
Aaron Swartz did some initial research comparing Wikipedia contributors by number of edits and characters, arguing that the core community (who make most of the edits) should matter less than peripheral domain experts (who write more).
German Ingenuity, As Applied To Wikipedia
The German-language version of Wikipedia may see some changes in the very near future. A new editing system, designed to reduce the amount of vandalism (and plain inaccuracy), is going to be implemented. These issues are commonly identified as the online encyclopedia’s biggest problems.
Wikipedia Can’t Handle the Truthiness
Wikipedia got a painful dose of “wikiality” this week as the online encyclopedia’s greatest strength became its worst nightmare. Wikipedia editors, meet Stephen Colbert, whose satirical crusade against “truthiness” arrived with the mocking tone of Monty Python’s coconut hoof beats.
Wikipedia Is Satan
Wikipedia doesn’t like Sam Vaknin, and the feelings are mutual. Look up this narcissm aficionado on Wikipedia and you’ll find he’s been dutifully erased from the wiki-consciousness, a name that shall not be uttered, or “recreated without a good reason.”
Problems Sprout For Nature Over Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia Brittanica has expressed its extreme displeasure with the Nature science journal over its comparison of Britannica to Wikipedia.
Marketing via Wikipedia
I’m sitting in an airline lounge at Dulles, having just finished a talk on new media to the annual gathering of US Army Public Affairs officers.
Marketing and Wikipedia Are Antonyms
Rohit Bhargava sees a way for marketers to carefully become part of the Wikipedia community by creating short articles in an effort to facilitate further discussion.
Yahoo Search Opens Up Wikipedia
Yahoo’s work with Wikipedia takes another step with Yahoo Search; queries that return Wikipedia entries along with other search results will have additional direct links to Wikipedia resources.