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Dot activism
One of the most remarkable, unexpected developments of the Internet has been the explosive growth of Wikipedia. At first glance, the Wikipedia concept — that thousands upon thousands of volunteers...
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Wikis and Wikipedia: Who’s writing this stuff?
Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia’s bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask...
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A profile of Wikipedia’s users
There has been ongoing controversy about the reliability of articles on Wikipedia. Still, the Pew Internet Project survey shows that Wikipedia is far more popular among the well-educated than it is...
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Evaluating Wikipedia’s credibility…in color!!!
The trust gradient is all based on the probability of accuracy (PoA) of any given block of text. It is assumed that even with a 99% PoA the text can still be wrong, but is less likely to be wrong …...
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Wikipedia as exhibit A?
An anonymous edit to Wikipedia could provide a clue about the deaths of pro wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and 7-year-old son. Or it could simply be random Wikipedia pranksterism by a University of...
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Assignment Zero: A grand crowdWriting experiment
But I contribute to crowdsourced journalism because I want my work to yield a high “social good” return, and by that metric, overall, the experience has been frustrating. With some of these projects I...
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Wikiganda
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company’s machines. While...
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