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CyberNet News: Keeping you plugged in!
Quoted: The purpose of WikiSeek is to search Wikipedia pages and those sites that have been linked to from Wikipedia. This is an alternative or aThe Long Tail: What would radical transparency mean for Wired? (Part 2)
In this post I'll describe what that might imply for a media organization like ours. If the key word is "participation", how could we encourage that to the fullest? If trust comes come fromAn empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility
Staff were either given an article in their own expert domain or a random article. No difference was found between the two group in terms of their perceived credibility of Wikipedia or of the articlesMediaShift . Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Wikis | PBS
Quoted: A wiki is simply a web page that can be written or edited by the public or a group of people. What sets wikis apartThe "Citizendium"
The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It willWeb 2.0 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wikipedia's web 2.0 entryDead2.0 » Ask Skeptic’s Mom: “What’s a Wiki?”
sceptical review of the power of the wikiThe Hive
History of wikipediaThe sum of knowledge? at twopointouch
The history and workings of the wikipedia, plus the challenges it faces in gaining acceptance.USATODAY.com - A false Wikipedia 'biography'
How wikipedia can get spammedThe New Yorker: Fact
Great introduction to the subject and the scandalsnews @ nature.com - Internet encyclopaedias go head to head - Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
Disputed article claiming good levels of accuracy compared to EBTCS Daily - The Faith-Based Encyclopedia
All these arguments aside, the article is what might be expected of a high school student, and at that it would be a C paper at best. Yet this article has been "edited" over 150 times.Dirk Riehle: How and Why Wikipedia Works
interview with three wikipediansThe real bias in Wikipedia:Robert McHenry - openDemocracy
Wikipedia's visionless, self-selected, value-light online encyclopedia is a deformed shadow of what the global public deserves, says former editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britannica, Robert McHenry.Infothought: Wikipedia, De-skilling, and The Wisdom Of Darts
I think it's important to distinguish between the "silk purse out of sow's ear" argument, and "free labor" argument. The hype around Wikipedia is basically, bluntly, that it's magi