The So-Called Fight Over Barack Obama’s Wikipedia Article
There are two stories going around in the past 24 hours about President Obama’s biographical article on Wikipedia. One, from FoxNews.com, is about the article downplaying Obama’s relationship with the...
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Don’t Be WorldNetDaily’s Aaron Klein
As noted yesterday, a recent article by WorldNetDaily Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein about Wikipedia’s alleged “scrubbing” of President Obama’s Wikipedia article resulted in additional coverage...
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Why WWF’s Earth Hour Gets a Wikipedia Entry But CEI’s Human Achievement Hour...
You may have heard of Earth Hour, an eco-Hallmark holiday for the Twitter age, created by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007 and promoted in the media each year since. You are probably less likely to...
View ArticleHow Not to Plead Your Case at Wikipedia
Yesterday I wrote a relatively lengthy post discussing the circumstances surrounding the deletion of a Wikipedia article about Human Achievement Hour (HAH), a parody holiday created this year by the...
View ArticleWords and Deeds: Wikipedia and the Virginia Governor’s Race
The Democratic Party of Virginia settled on a nominee for governor this past week, choosing state senator Creigh Deeds over two better-known rivals, including former DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe. (On...
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Too Hot to Handel? Wikipedia’s Troubled Role in State Political Campaigns...
As noted here recently in the case of Creigh Deeds, a well-written, informative Wikipedia article can have a positive impact on a candidate’s reputation. As noted here a couple months back in the case...
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Charted Territory: When Good Infographics Go Bad
I will be blunt: the new infographic from David McCandless (Information is Beautiful), called “Articles of War: Wikipedia’s lamest edit wars“, is so lazy as to be misleading, glib as to be...
View ArticleBanned from Wikipedia… Almost
I presume that a fair number of Wikipedia’s casual readers and participants are at least vaguely aware of the fact that bad behavior can get one banned from the site — of course I mean from editing it,...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and the Boring Truth About Wikipedia Vandalism
The Wikipedian was traveling for most of this past month, and so I’ve missed out on a few interesting Wikipedia-related stories of late. None was more frustrating (and entertaining) than the case of...
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Rick Santorum’s Wikipedia Problem and its Discontents
When former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum started gearing up to launch his presidential campaign earlier this year, there was one question he could not avoid. It had to do with the matter of alt-weekly...
View ArticleVerifiability and Truth: What John Siracusa Doesn’t Get About Wikipedia
One of my favorite podcasts is Hypercritical, co-hosted by and principally featuring the thoughtful criticisms of John Siracusa, a sometime columnist for Ars Technica and Internet-famous Apple pundit....
View ArticleThe Other Senkaku Islands Dispute
My friend and colleague Pete Hunt writes in Foreign Policy today about the dispute on Wikipedia about the Senkaku Islands, and how they parallel the real world. An excerpt: Regular editing dust-ups...
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The Federalist Pages: What Neil deGrasse Tyson and Conservative Bloggers Tell...
You might be surprised to learn that Wikipedia has a formal policy called “Wikipedia is not a battleground”. Not that anyone seems to have got the memo: although Wikipedia’s rules kindly suggest that...
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Making the Sausage: Dariusz Jemielniak on How to Think About Edit Wars
Only a handful of serious books about Wikipedia exist; one of the first, and arguably the only essential one, is Andrew Lih’s “The Wikipedia Revolution”—though it was published in 2009 and could surely...
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Some Thoughts on Gamergategate
It’s still early in 2015, yet Wikipedia’s volunteer community has already experienced one of its most traumatic events in recent memory. Not the most, mind you. Wikipedia is a fundamentally volatile...
View ArticleThe So-Called Fight Over Barack Obama’s Wikipedia Article
There are two stories going around in the past 24 hours about President Obama’s biographical article on Wikipedia. One, from FoxNews.com, is about the article downplaying Obama’s relationship with the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don’t Be WorldNetDaily’s Aaron Klein
As noted yesterday, a recent article by WorldNetDaily Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein about Wikipedia’s alleged “scrubbing” of President Obama’s Wikipedia article resulted in additional coverage...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why WWF’s Earth Hour Gets a Wikipedia Entry But CEI’s Human Achievement Hour...
You may have heard of Earth Hour, an eco-Hallmark holiday for the Twitter age, created by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007 and promoted in the media each year since. You are probably less likely to...
View ArticleHow Not to Plead Your Case at Wikipedia
Yesterday I wrote a relatively lengthy post discussing the circumstances surrounding the deletion of a Wikipedia article about Human Achievement Hour (HAH), a parody holiday created this year by the...
View ArticleWords and Deeds: Wikipedia and the Virginia Governor’s Race
The Democratic Party of Virginia settled on a nominee for governor this past week, choosing state senator Creigh Deeds over two better-known rivals, including former DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe. (On...
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