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2007 May

Wired, 3 maggio 2007

"Assignment Zero First Take: Wiki Innovators Rethink Openness". Wired (Wired News). May 3, 2007. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/05/assignment_zero_citizendium. Retrieved on 2007-11-01. 
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
« The drama raging between the two information pioneers goes well beyond the scope of mere competing websites; it’s fueled by a well-documented professional-gone-personal conflict between Sanger and Wales about the paternity of Wikipedia. Sanger wrote the essay for kuro5hin that introduced Wikipedia. In the essay he credited himself as the “chief instigator of Wikipedia." Wales wrote extensive comments to the essay, but not once did he object to Sanger's crediting. Now Wales insists that Wikipedia was his own sole creation. He chafes at Sanger's usual co-founder credit as "absurd," going so far as to tell the Sydney Morning Herald that Sanger was just one of 20 people working on the project. Wales refused interview requests for this article.»
«[1]»
(--Christian (discussione) 01:15, 11 mar 2009 (CET))
«--Christian (discussione) 01:15, 11 mar 2009 (CET)»
([1])
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
« Of course, Wikipedia's challenges do not ensure the Citizendium’s success. And Sanger’s site does not want for detractors. One of the more often cited critiques is by NYU professor and writer – and Wikimedia advisory board member -- Clay Shirky on his Many2Many blog. Experts, he wrote, aren't special, and adding them to the mix won't result in a better wiki. Furthermore, motivating these experts will be a Sisyphean task that "will probably prove quickly fatal." Nicholas Carr, author of the RoughType blog, says he has " some sympathy for Sanger" in wanting a high-quality product but that "he's just adding rules that will turn potential contributors off.” He adds, "Maybe it has a chance, but the odds are against it."»
«[1]»
(--Christian (discussione) 01:15, 11 mar 2009 (CET))
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«Despite Wikipedia’s wealth of contributors, Wales seems to be gradually introducing his nemesis’s thinking into his own site. "There's a kind of irony to what Sanger is doing," Carr says, noting Wikipedia itself is starting to look more like Sanger's vision for the Citizendium. "Wikipedia still lives in the Web 2.0 rhetorical glow, but I don't believe that that's any longer an accurate description." The most-viewed articles are often locked down, he says, but less popular entries get less scrutiny and are still free to edit, leaving them open to vandalism. Mark Glaser says Wales is introducing greater oversight into Wikipedia, which he says he can’t imagine as a minor or temporary move. “They will probably move toward a hybrid model where people move up the ladder and become overseers, or have paid editors help verify things," he says.»
«[1]»
(--Christian (discussione) 01:15, 11 mar 2009 (CET))
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«Following publication of this article, Wales offered the following on-the-record comment in an e-mail to NewAssignment.net editor Jay Rosen:

"'Instigator' does not mean 'founder' is the main other comment I would make. My claim in this matter is quite simple, and this is on the record:

"Larry Sanger was my employee working under my direct supervision during the entire process of launching Wikipedia. He was not the originator of the proposal to use a wiki for the encyclopedia project -- that was Jeremy Rosenfeld. And Larry has himself publicly stated, 'To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine.'

"His role in the early days of Wikipedia was important -- he was considered the 'editor-in-chief' -- but it was not the role of founder. Larry was never comfortable with the open wiki process, and he has been critical of it from the beginning and to this day."

Larry Sanger replies:

"If you view the archives listed on http://www.larrysanger.org/roleinwp.html you will discover several things:

That I worked largely independently of Wales, who was an extremely "hands-off" manager. While I was organizing Wikipedia, Wales was in the background and focused on Bomis.com.

"That, from 2002 until 2004, Wales himself approved three Wikipedia press releases that called me a founder. I was called a founder in virtually all news articles, from the New York Times in September 2001 until Jimmy started leaving me out of the story of Wikipedia's origin in 2004.

"That Wales first mentioned a Jeremy Rosenfeld in 2005, four years after the events. Until then, the only story in circulation was the correct one: that I had the idea for Wikipedia while talking to a friend, and that I then asked Wales to set up the wiki.

"These facts, which Wales has been trying to dismantle since 2005, are all in the record. I'll make Wales a deal: I will stop immodestly defending myself if he will stop attacking me publicly in his deceitful and embarrassingly self-serving way.")»
«[1]»
(--Christian (discussione) 01:15, 11 mar 2009 (CET))
Ancora uno scambio fra Sanger e Wales. --Christian (discussione) 01:15, 11 mar 2009 (CET)
  • "Power struggle". New Scientist. 2007-05-19. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19426041.600-power-struggle.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-22. 
    "How do you keep track of the bubbling mass of information that is Wikipedia? This chaotic-looking mosaic is one attempt to show which topics are contained in the online encyclopedia, and those most hotly contested. It's a mind-boggling task. About 4 million "Wikipedians" have made over 130 million edits, and the English-language version alone contains 1.7 million articles. Every second a new edit is made, and every day 2000 new articles spring up." The image referred to can be seen here:- [1].
  • "Wikipedia whispers". Private Eye: p. 7. 2007-05. 
    "without warning, Wikipedia founder and director Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales personally deleted the entire page. Soon afterwards a new, cleaned-up version of the di Stefano entry was created - minus all the awkward facts."
Intervista al solito ironica e irriverente, niente di particolare. --Andrea (discussione) 13:19, 16 feb 2009 (CET)


2007 June

Reason, giugno 2007

Mangu-Ward, Katherine (June, 2007). "Wikipedia and Beyond: Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision" (in English). Reason (Reason Foundation):  pp. 18-29. http://www.reason.com/news/show/119689.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-05. 
Cover feature article in June issue of Reason, a libertarian magazine, discussing and interviewing Jimbo Wales and the history and philosophy behind Wikipedia.
Articolo copiato qui in Fonte:Wikipedia and Beyond. --Christian (discussione) 00:55, 25 mar 2009 (CET)

The Ohio State University, 1 giugno 2007

Betz, Lindsay (June 1, 2007). "Wikipedia formed by former Buckeye". The Lantern (The Ohio State University). http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2007/06/01/Campus/Wikipedia.Formed.By.Former.Buckeye-2911006.shtml. Retrieved on 2009-03-09. 
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«As Wikipedia's success grew, Sanger said, so did its problems.

He said he always thought Wikipedia would be developed together with another more "mature" encyclopedia, such as Nupedia, that would edit the Wikipedia content and release accurate versions of the entries.

"As it turned out, Jimmy Wales, who pays the bills, decided he liked Wikipedia and didn't like Nupedia so he let Nupedia die," Sanger said.

He said he stopped working for Wikipedia at the beginning of 2002 when the company told him they could not pay his salary anymore. They did invite him to stay on as a volunteer, but he declined.

"I had come to the conclusion that I didn't want to have anything to do with Wikipedia as it was being allowed to develop," he said. "The problem was that there was no credible way whereby articles would become approved. We had talked about an approval process for a long time but no action was ever taken on it."»
«[1]»
(--Christian (discussione) 09:04, 9 mar 2009 (CET))
Articolo che parla di Sanger. Interessante che lui si immaginava WP un supporto per un'enciclopedia più "seria". --Christian (discussione) 09:04, 9 mar 2009 (CET)
Website favourites?
Wikipedia [the user-generated online encyclopedia]. I love the way it aggregates information from different people.

The Registrar, 14 giugno 2007

David Landau, For the Registrar, the Comptroller-General, "IN THE MATTER OF APPLICATION NO 2277746C, BY FORMULA ONE LICENSING BV TO REGISTER THE TRADE MARK: F1 IN CLASS 41 AND THE OPPOSITION THERETO UNDER NO 94004, BY RACING-LIVE (SOCIETE ANONYME A DIRECTOIRE)", http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-decisionmaking/t-challenge/t-challenge-decision-results/o16907.pdf, 14 giugno 2007.

Decisione che usa WP come fonte attendibile. Da approfondire. --Christian (discussione) 12:50, 24 mar 2009 (CET)
  • "No amount of collaboration will make the sun orbit the Earth". The Guardian. June 14, 2007. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2101810,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. 
    Discusses the author's fears that NPOV will lead to false views being given undue prominence. "..the General Social Survey poll data last week which revealed that 28% of American adults believe it is "definitely false" that humans evolved from other animals - and only 18% think it is "definitely true". The latter is also the proportion of Americans who believe that the sun goes around the Earth." ... "So here we have a society in which adults are just as likely to believe that the sun goes around the Earth as that evolution is true, which has also built an encyclopaedia based on the idea that the truth will emerge from cooperative debate."
  • "Lost in cyberspace". The Guardian. June 14, 2007. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/khalid_mir/2007/06/lost_in_cyberspace.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. 
    Considers whether access to vast amounts of information will actually make us better able to communicate. "One example of the internet's reach on our understanding of ourselves and other people is Wikipedia. The fundamental issue at stake is not one of its factual accuracy or its efficacy, nor is it one of political constraints on accessibility to information. It is, rather, whether how we think about something is radically altered when information is available at the click of a button." ... "It is also possible that this desire to catalogue everything, build a universal library or archive is actually a defensive strategy that speaks of our fears, of the precariousness of our lives."
  • "So Wikipedia has become something of a running joke: the ultimate resource on things that don't matter. The bottom of reliability's totem pole. 'I saw it on Wikipedia,' the saying goes, 'so it must be true.' That saying, to reiterate, is usually meant to be humorous."
  • "Sources in China have reported that the English language version of Wikipedia is no longer blocked for internet users inside the country, after being unavailable for most of the past 18 months. However, the Chinese language edition of Wikipedia remains inaccessible in China."
  • "In postings on internal mailing groups, users of Wikipedia have described obvious mistakes in the design, a globelike jigsaw puzzle with characters from various languages on the pieces. Two of the characters — one in Japanese and one in Devanagari, the script used in Sanskrit and several modern Indian languages — are meaningless because of minor slips"

Heise.de, 26 giugno 2007

"German Wikipedia receives state funding" (in English). heise online. 2007-06-26. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91733. Retrieved on 2007-06-26. 
Lo Stato tedesco sostiene Wikipedia. Anche Deutsche Telekom. Da approfondire. --Christian (discussione) 12:41, 24 mar 2009 (CET)
  • Coverage of anon editor's apparent confession that it was just a lucky guess.
  • Chris Benoit's Wikipedia page was altered to say that his wife was dead before the police discover the bodies of Benoit, his wife and son. The Independent's article reported that "An anonymous user confessed to making the entry, saying that he had based it on rumours".

2007 July

  • Includes interviews with several Wikipedia contributors, with a focus on Wikipedia's coverage of breaking news.
    "Wikipedia may not exactly be a font of truth, but it does go against the current of what has happened to the notion of truth. The easy global dissemination of, well, everything has generated a D.I.Y. culture of proud subjectivity, a culture that has spread even to relatively traditional forms like television — as in the ascent of advocates like Lou Dobbs or Bill O’Reilly, whose appeal lies precisely in their subjectivity even as they name-check 'neutrality' to cover all sorts of journalistic sins. But the Wikipedians, most of them born in the information age, have tasked themselves with weeding that subjectivity not just out of one another’s discourse but also out of their own. They may not be able to do any actual reporting from their bedrooms or dorm rooms or hotel rooms, but they can police bias, and they do it with a passion that’s no less impressive for its occasional excess of piety. Who taught them this? It’s a mystery; but they are teaching it to one another."
  • An interview with Jimmy Wales and the author's experiences as a new editor, or 'wikivirgin', as he calls himself.
  • "For all the futuristic paranoia about hive minds, I have been struck by a kind of village fete atmosphere within the Wikicommunity; you are forever being prompted about pages to clean up, articles to 'Wikify', tasks to be done."
  • The Shizuoka Shimbun newspaper apologized to its readers Thursday, after a reporter had copied information from a Wikipedia article and used it in his page 1 column.
  • Article criticising Wikipedia:OTRS actions and accountability particularly in relation to the protection of Lava lamp.
  • Reports Nielsen NetRating's findings that Wikipedia is now the top news site on the web.
  • "Wikipedia also has finished on top of the news and information category every month this year -- ranking ahead of Landmark Communications' Weather Channel site by an increasing margin...."

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  • PC Pro magazine asked 3 academics to compare articles on subjects in which they are expert from Wikipedia , Britannica and Encarta.
  • Wikipedia had the best all round result with the exceptional highs and lows in its encyclopedic rivals.
  • Mention of the complaints on the talk pages of the articles on Sarah Teather and Dawn Butler about "supporters of each have been maliciously editing each MP’s entry on Wikipedia". The two will be contesting the same, new Parliamentary seat at the next election.
  • Claire Beale reports how Ford Motor's latest commercial soap "Where are the Joneses" allows viewers come up with some new storylines by using an Wiki interface similar to that of Wikipedia. In doing so she assumes that her readers will be familiar with Wikipeida.
  • "Ars Nova will present The Wikipedia Plays, a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the Wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries ... 'What is The Defenestration of Prague? And how is it seventeen steps removed from Castration Anxiety? Wikipedia knows. In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries,' as described in press materials."
  • Incorrectly refers to armeniapedia as "a Wikipedia website". The communications committee has been notified.

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  • Shreeve uses Wikipedia as model to explain how the commercial product Socialtext is used within companies. In doing so he is assuming that his readers will be familiar with how Wikipeida works.

The Oregonian, 27 Luglio 2007

Wikipedia & its founder disagree on his birth date, Posted by Mike Rogoway, July 27, 2007 13:25PM
Sulla data di nascita di Jimmy Wales. --Christian (discussione) 22:47, 24 mar 2009 (CET)
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«"I am 40," Wales replied, adding that the date cited for his birthday on his Wikipedia biography -- Aug. 7, 1966 -- is incorrect.

"They got it from (Encyclopedia) Britannica," Wales told me, "and Britannica got it wrong."

Wales declined to tell me what day he was actually born ("Nobody knows," he said mysteriously), but a public records search shows that his Florida driver's license lists his birthday as Aug. 8, 1966.

Since Wikipedia is often criticized for the perceived unreliability of its user-written entries, it's obviously ironic that the online encyclopedia would incorrectly report it's own founder's birthday. »
«Dato che spesso WP viene criticata per l'inaffidabilità percepita delle sue voci scritte da utenti, è ovviamente ironico che l'enciclopedia online riporti incorrettamente la data di nascita del proprio fondatore.[1]»
(--Christian (discussione) 02:18, 25 mar 2009 (CET))
Ma forse qui il discorso va più in là dell'affidabilità di Wikipedia. Anche altre enciclopedie avrebbero lo stesso problema e sicuramente sarebbero più lente ad intervenire oppure non ci sarebbe necessariamente lo spazio per un approfondimento, come invece c'è nella pagina di discussione in WP. --Christian (discussione) 02:25, 25 mar 2009 (CET)
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«Posted by kausticgirl on 08/15/07 at 6:36PM

Since this article was published a whole new section was added to Wales' online biography to discuss the mystery of his birthdate. Mr. Wales seems to have contributed to this puzzle by claiming at various times that his birthdate is Aug 7th and then telling anyone who uses that date that they are wrong.

From Wikipedia's article on Jimmy Wales - Aug. 15th, 2007

Wales edited his entries on Wikipedia and on the Wikimedia Foundation's website in 2004 to indicate that his date of birth is August 7, 1966. The Encyclopedia Britannica, Current Biography, and Who's Who in America support these changes. However, according to a researcher's note on the Britannica's website in June 2007, Wales contacted Britannica claiming that the date of August 7, 1966 was incorrect but was unwilling to provide them with an alternative. On July 27, 2007, when asked by Oregonian reporter Mike Rogoway when his birthday was Wales is reported to have mysteriously stated, "Nobody knows." On his blog Rogoway claims that a Florida public records search shows that Wales' drivers license lists his date of birth as August 8, 1966. This appears to contradict a statement made by Wales in 2006 in which he wrote that "My date of birth is not August 8, 1966." In August 2007 on his Wikipedia talk page Wales commented on Rogoway's article by stating, in part: "In any event, the quotes in the Oregonian are correct."»
«Wales aveva editato la voce su Wikipedia e sul sito della Wikimedia Foundation nel 2004 per indicare che la sua data di nascita era il 7 agosto 1966. L'enciclopedia Britannica, Current Biography e Who's who in America appoggiano questi cambi. Ma, secondo le note di un ricercatore sul sito della Britannica, nel giugno 2007, Wales contatta la Britannica affermando che la data del 7 agosto 1966 non è corretta, ma senza dare disponibilità nel fornirgli un'alternativa. Il 27 luglio 2007, quando intervistato dal reporter dell'Oregon Mike Rogoway sul suo compleanno, viene riportato che Wales ha risposto "nessuno lo sa". Sul suo blog Rogoway afferma che una ricerca in un registro pubblico della Florida mostra che la patente di guida di Wales indica la data dell'8 agosto. Questo sembra contraddire un'affermazione di Wales nel 2006 in cui scriveva che "La mia data di nascita non è l'8 agosto 1966". In agosto 2007 sulla sua pagina di discussione, Wales ha commentato l'articolo di Rogoway dischiarando, in parte: "in ogni caso, le citazioni ne "the Oregonian" sono corrette."[1]»
(--Christian (discussione) 02:18, 25 mar 2009 (CET))
"Version 0.5 is the first offline release from the English-language Wikipedia, though founder Jimmy Wales suggested the idea in 2003. It resulted from a yearlong collaboration between the St. Petersburg, Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation and Linterweb, a French technology company handling production."


  • Praise for WP stance on free access without censorship for China.
    "it's terrific to see such a prominent player in the American technology industry that hasn't gotten so transfixed by the promise of 1.2 billion consumers that it has forgotten its morals. As China has morphed into a powerhouse on the world stage, it has made many American workers and consumers feel as if they're victims. But even with all of its flaws and failures, America is still a democracy, and Americans still enjoy certain basic freedoms that are unknown to the average Chinese. In our panic over economic questions, we've forgotten that many, if not most, Chinese citizens are still living in desperate conditions under a repressive government. Jimmy Wales hasn't forgotten that. May the founders and executives at Google, Yahoo and others learn from his example."
  • Andrew Keen who jokingly describes himself as a "failed dotcom entrepreneur", is severely critical of Wikipedia. "He cites a case where a scientist was critical of numerous postings made by another 'citizen editor' in his specialist field. Wikipedia apparently judged that the expert's opinion was no more valid than anybody else's, and duly restricted him to one entry a day." But his major concern is that Web 2 of which Wikipedia is an example is damaging economic interests and goes on to argue that although 50% of the staff at Encyclopaedia Brittanica were laid off a number of years ago, that thanks to Wikipeidia more will follow.
" Wikipedia may be the best thing that has happened in the encyclopedia business since Denis Diderot published the first Encyclopédie in the eighteenth century. ... They get something wrong, too, every now and then, but they are pretty good about corrections..."
  • "How you know that 'colorado' means 'discoloured' in Spanish?" said Susan. "Why do you sound so sure of everything?"
  • "Omniscience is always a good fall-back position," said Robert. "It hasn't done Wikipedia much harm, has it?"

2007 August

  • Praise for Wikipedia from the Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
"Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is the most impressive collective intellectual project ever attempted - and perhaps achieved. It demands both the attention and the contribution of anyone concerned with the future of knowledge."
"Wikipedia embodies a democratic medievalism that does not respect claims to personal expertise in the absence of verifiable sources. To fully realize this ideal, participation in Wikipedia might be made compulsory for advanced undergraduates and Master's degree candidates worldwide. The expected norms of conduct of these students correspond exactly to Wikipedia's content policy: one is not expected to do original research, but to know where the research material is and how to argue about it."
"The Interstate 35W bridge collapsed Wednesday at about 6:05 p.m. Within 22 minutes, the Star Tribune updated its website with the news. Within 24 minutes, the Internet's go-to reference site, Wikipedia, added the information to its entry for the bridge."
"The difference: The Star Tribune's news site is run by a staff of professional journalists, while Wikipedia is a publicly maintained site to which anyone can contribute and no one is really in charge."
"Before the collapse, Wikipedia's short entry for the I-35W bridge was classified as a "stub," rudimentary information about a minor subject -- basically, a side note to bigger articles on the site. The stub was created in May 2006 and edited only five times before Wednesday."
"During the night, the entry became a full-blown page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_Bridge), with Wikipedia users adding information about the bridge's construction and history, as well as photos and updates about the collapse."
  • Reports on WikiMania 2007 in Taipei.
"The conference has attracted about 440 attendees, a little more than half from Taiwan, who want to immerse themselves for three days in the ideas and issues that come up making an entirely volunteer written encyclopedia. The workshops cover practical topics like how to collaborate peacefully; what importance to give “expertise” in a project that is celebrated for allowing anyone to contribute, including anonymous editors; and helpful hints on how to combat “wiki fatigue,” the inevitable boredom that can lead to “wikiwars,” such as endless arguments about the year Alexander Hamilton was born."
  • Hoffman reports that the Wikipedia article on Antonio da Ponte, calls him "a Venetian-born 'Swiss architect&engineer ... whose earlier works are entirely unknown" which he compares with Du Ponte's description in "the authoritative Giulio Lorenzetti in his Venice and its Lagoon" that does not mention Switzerland, and finishes the piece with "Can we be dealing here with one of those Wikipedia mistakes that become common currency through the omnipresence of the worldwide web?"
  • Florence Nibart-Devouard suggests that Baidu Baike is the biggest copyright violation of WikiMedia content.
  • Tests on color coding edits to red flag potentially dubious content will be used on some smaller sites in the Wikia community, according to the site's co-founder.
  • The article claims that "The survey also found that, in spite of recent phone-in/Queen-tiff scandals, the BBC is still the UK's most reliable source of information, whereas the web encyclopedia Wikipedia is only trusted by 2 per cent of us." In fact, the data in the article only indicate that the BBC is perceived to be the UK's most reliable source of information.
  • In essence, the author checked 10 pages and found errors in all. He does not want to fix them all, because he is not sure if they really are errors and doesn't want to do the research. Wikipedia is now a powerful source, so Something Must Be Done to make it better. Interestingly enough, in the same issue on pages A14-A15 Wikipedia is quoted as the source for information about opium." 
  • Wales claims that Wikipedia is internally more organized that the WikiMedia Foundation has been. Compares licensing, talks about Wikipedia on mobile phones. 
Rhys Blakely (August 16, 2007). "Firms accused of rewriting their entry on Wikipedia". The Times. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2267778.ece. Retrieved on 2007-08-15. 
  • In the context of the new WikiScanner tool, Kamm attacks claims that Wikipedias disseminates knowledge. He sees the WikiScanner as a means of testing users credibility after the Essjay controversy.
"It should be noted, however, that pilots are divided to this day as to whether the responsibility for the accident should rest with the pilot or with the flight planning department."
The edit can be seen here. The print edition of the article also lists three cases where computers used by New Zealand organisations have altered entries on Wikipedia that relate to those organisations. The article used information gained by Virgil Griffith's Wikiscanner.
  • This editorial discusses the dynamics of vandalism and COI edits on Wikipedia, but concludes that "[n]onetheless, the theory behind Wikipedia still holds: together, humans are smarter and stronger than they are alone."
  • The Sydney Morning Herald uses the Wikiscanner to find edits from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to pages including John Howard and Peter Costello. Also finds a large number of edits form the department of defence to a variety of topics.
  • The Department denies that they were directed to make changes. The ABC also reports that the Department of Defence have blocked their staff from editing Wikipedia.
  • The Sydney Morning Herald also reveals changes made by the NSW Premier's department to the page of Morris Iemma.
  • Australian Foreign minister Alexander Downer claims that the Wikipedia "editorial board" has an anti-government bias.
  • Wikipedian Simon Pulsifer points out that while Wikipedia's open editing concept allows for biased and other abusive edits, that same concept also allows such problems to be corrected in short order. The article also mentions the advent of WikiScanner and how it can help counter COI and other organisationally-based problem edits.
  • "A photo of Helen Clark on the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been "protected" to prevent people editing her listing, and Ministry of Justice staff have been detected using Government computers to alter other entries."
  • The article goes on to talk about Wikiscanner, vandalism to the Helen Clark article, and unrelated vandalism from Justice Ministry computers.
  • Wikipedia entries on Odex, for instance, have been turned into attacks on the firm, which has taken flak from the online world after news spread that it was going after people who downloaded anime illegally."
  • But the smear campaign has gone on unabated and things have become so bad that one of Wikipedia's editors was compelled, in an Aug 14 entry, to tick off these 'contributors' and remind them to 'stick to facts and try to balance them'. Some of the more offensive posts have been taken down."
  • Reports the suspension from work of an official from Statistics SA, who will face a disciplinary hearing for removing content from HIV/AIDS in South Africa which was critical of the South African government's policy towards HIV/AIDS.
Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan's staff have confirmed they deleted several unflattering, but true, items from the mayor's Wikipedia page -- including the fact the mayor was investigated by the police for giving money to addicts to purchase drugs.
  • Reports on a program developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz which can assess the reliablity of Wikipedia editors by measuring the durability of their edits over time. It can also color code the text in an article to show how reliable it is likely to be.
  • Note: There are follow-up articles about this story throughout September 2007.
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