Archive for the 'wikipedia' Category
Preservation: A Brush with Greatness Story
March 2nd, 2008Steven Harris - “I was a little surprised to see an essay by Baker in The New York Review of Books describing how much he likes Wikipedia. The article is ostensibly a review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton, but the true thesis is about Baker’s battle with Wikipedia editors over entries that [...]
MediaWiki Embraces Social Networking
March 2nd, 2008learning.now - “MediaWiki, the wiki tool used by Wikipedia and thousands of other wiki sites around the world, just got a lot more powerful. The for-profit companion project to Wikipedia announced this week that they were releasing free tools that will allow MediaWiki sites to include a range of social networking features. Schools looking for [...]
Police chief forces staff to monitor his Wikipedia entry
March 1st, 2008The Daily Mail - “Sir Norman Bettison took exception to being described as a “greedy, vain moron” on the online encyclopaedia, according to Police Review magazine.”
The Charms of Wikipedia
March 1st, 2008Nicholson Baker - “Wikipedia is just an incredible thing.”
Think you know Wikipedia? You might… or you might just think you do
February 27th, 2008Kim Leeder - “Up until about two weeks ago, I was a Wikipedia snob.”
More on the Slate Piece
February 24th, 2008Phil Bradley - “The point really is that it’s not the wisdom of the crowds, it’s a gentle dictatorship of the chaper ones.”
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy
February 23rd, 2008Chris Wilson - “It’s getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater.”
Teaching with Wikipedia
February 15th, 2008The Information Literacy Land of Confusion - “Wikipedia is not going to go away. Students will continue to use it. How can instructors find new and novel ways to teach about and with it?”
How Google, Wikipedia Have Changed Our Lives
January 27th, 2008MediaShift - What did I do before Google and Wikipedia? Can I even remember?
Sick sense of humor, On having a
January 22nd, 2008A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette - “Respond to every reference question with the following phrase “Well, let me check Wikipedia…”
Heh
AFP bans use of Wikipedia and Facebook as sources
January 21st, 2008If news orgs don’t allow it, should librarians (and the clients they serve?)
Happy Birthday: Wikipedia Turns 7 Today
January 15th, 2008You live in a zoo!!
Wikipedia:School and university projects
December 26th, 2007An impressive entry:
“If you are a professor or teacher at a school or university, we encourage you to use Wikipedia in your class to demonstrate how an open content website works (or doesn’t). You are not the first person to do so, and many of these projects have resulted in both advancing the student’s knowledge [...]
Bad Teachers?
December 17th, 2007BBC - “Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are “bad educators”.”
Are Wikipedia Editors Information Tyrants?
December 12th, 2007On Wikipedia - “Judging by all the jibes Wikipedia Latest News about Wikipedia receives, you might have come to the conclusion long ago that it is a collection of fantasies penned by daydreamers.”
Politician Files Wikipedia Charge over Nazi Symbols
December 6th, 2007Eweek - “A left-wing German politician has filed charges against online encyclopedia Wikipedia for promoting the use of banned Nazi symbols in Germany.”
Does it Pay to Contribute?
December 3rd, 2007New York Times - “The foundation that runs Wikipedia has finally agreed to pay contributors to the online encyclopedia a modest fee for their work. But it won’t pay the thousands of people who participate in creating the wiki pages — just artists who create “key illustrations” for the site.”
SF Chronicle Interview Jimmy Wales…
December 1st, 2007…on the future of the Web’s most reliable resource.
This is Your Brain on Wikipedia
November 18th, 2007Lynn Olanoff - ” Linda O’Connor regards Wikipedia the same way former first lady Nancy Reagan campaigned against drugs. She urges people to “Just Say No.”
More on Wikipedia
November 2nd, 2007Reuters - “A French judge has dismissed a defamation and privacy case against Wikipedia after ruling the free online encyclopedia was not responsible for information introduced onto its Web site.”
Wikipedia is Still Bad For Us…And So Are The Articles Telling Us About It
November 2nd, 2007CNN - “It’s one of the top 10 most-visited sites worldwide, with over 2 million articles in its English language edition. But is online encyclopedia Wikipedia’s strength — that anyone can edit it — also its greatest weakness?”
Don’t like it? Don’t use it.
Wikipedia Edits in Real Time…With Maps
November 2nd, 2007This is almost as addictive as Twittervision (via)
Wikipedia Edits Suit
October 13th, 2007AP - “Two Associated Press journalists sued Arkansas officials Friday for allegedly violating the state’s Freedom of Information Act by withholding information about which government computers were used to edit entries on Wikipedia.”
Wikipedia Wars
September 29th, 2007David Sarno - “As the 6-year-old encyclopedia project begins shifting from adding articles to pruning them back, arguments ensue, and it isn’t pretty.” (via)
Wikirage
August 29th, 2007Wikirage - “This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are recieving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. Popular people in the news, the latest fads, and the hottest video games can be quickly identified by monitor this social phenomenon.” (via)
Wow! How about a feed for the “hot” entry [...]
More on WikiSkanner
August 26th, 2007The Slate on Virgil Griffith (via)
AnonyPedia
August 14th, 2007Wikiscanner - “List anonymous Wikipedia edits from interesting organizations”
Wow!
How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
July 23rd, 2007Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: “HBS professor Andy McAfee had his doubts about Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia created and maintained by volunteers. “I just didn’t think it could yield a good outcome or a good encyclopedia. But I started consulting it and reading the entries, and I said, ‘This is amazing.’ ”
(Thanks Edana!)
Go To Wikipedia - Do Not Pass Go
July 16th, 2007Reuters - “Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.” (via)
Wikipedimania
June 30th, 2007From the NYT Magazine: All the News That’s Fit to Print Out