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2007 September 

Stephen Colbert, NYT, 1 luglio 2007

The Times, 7 settembre 2007

Blakely, Rhys (September 7, 2007). "Wikipedia amateurs face backlash from the experts". The Times. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article2407123.ece. Retrieved on 2008-02-05. 
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«The Citizendium site, like its established rival, will solicit input from the public at large. In a departure from the standard “wiki” model, however, it will be under the charge of expert editors and contributors will be expected to use their real names. The changes are designed to stamp out the inaccuracies and mischief-making that have blighted Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that, famously, “anybody can edit”.

The venture mirrors a broader revolt against the flood of unchecked user-generated online content, amid fears that efforts to tap the wisdom of crowds have actually unleashed a new tyranny of the masses.

The movement’s champion is Andrew Keen, whose hit book The Cult of the Amateur argues that free but substandard online content risks destroying whole industries – beginning, presumably, with the publishers of encyclopaedias. The idea that open collaborative projects can replace the work of professional individuals, he argues, represents an "extraordinary popular delusion”.

Citizendium is being spearheaded by Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia who left that website to become one of its most vocal critics.

"Wikipedia has accomplished great things, but the world can do even better," Dr Sanger said. "By engaging expert editors, eliminating anonymous contribution, and launching a more mature community under a new charter, a much broader and more influential group of people and institutions will be able to improve upon Wikipedia’s extremely useful, but often uneven work. The result will be not only enormous and free, but reliable."

The pilot Citizendium project was invitation-only. A vetted set of editors, dubbed "constables", are still at work developing a set of rules for contributors to abide by.

Gareth Leng, Professor of Experimental Physiology of the University of Edinburgh, has agreed to serve as a constable. "Public understanding of science needs scientists to help to explain, clearly and objectively, what science can do and what it can’t,” he said. “At the Citizendium, our role will not be to tell readers what opinions they should hold, but to give them the means to decide for themselves."

If it succeeds, however, Citizendium may still owe a large debt to Wikipedia, which was founded in 2001 and now has more than eight million articles in 253 languages – from Afrikaans to Zazaki. »
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(--Christian (discussione) 06:47, 9 mar 2009 (CET))
L'articolo propriamente è su Citizendium, ma ci sono buoni stimoli di riflessione. --Christian (discussione) 06:47, 9 mar 2009 (CET)


  • The author is the professor of Japanese history from Middlebury College from whom this college's policy of banning citations of Wikipedia in term papers originates.
  • The column sets straight some misunderstandings propagated by the media: Middlebury College's faculty is not at war with Wikipedia, and Waters' position is that no tertiary source, including Encyclopaedia Britannica, is suitable for citation anyway.
  • Waters suspects that the accuracy of articles varies in proportion to the interest that they generate, and thus the accuracy of history articles decreases as one strays away from the hot topics of American history. He spotted inaccuracies in the history of early Tokugawa Japan, not a mainstream topic in English-speaking countries.
  • Waters' expresses fears that history according to Wikipedia is determined by a preponderance of opinions, and thus favors opinions that are widely considered true at the expense of real scholarship.

October

  • "A number of readers have written to ask where that most essential of American institutions -- the cocktail party -- got its start. In particular, I've been asked whether I can verify the Wikipedia claim that Alec Waugh -- once a popular British novelist and essayist on the good life, but now best remembered as Evelyn's older brother -- "invented" the cocktail party sometime around 1925 in London. Alas, for all the things Wikipedia manages to get right, this is not one of them."
"Submission of new articles is slowing to a trickle where in previous years it was flood, and the discussion pages are increasingly filled with arguments and cryptic references to policy documents. The rise of the deletionists is threatening the hitherto peaceful growth of the world's most popular information source."
Niente di particolarmente rilevante. --Christian (discussione) 11:25, 9 mar 2009 (CET)
In the Holiday 2007 issue, Cheryl Krementz surveys the representation of knitting at popular general-content websites, including Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, Vox, Café Mom, Associated Content, and del.icio.us. She notes that Wikipedia has 125 articles about knitting, including "a decent overview of knitting history". The article also mentions WP's articles on entrelac and Meg Swansen. Two pictures from Wikipedia were used to illustrate the article, namely, Image:Knitting.jpg and Image:Pink knitting in front of pink sweatshirt.JPG, apparently (and unfortunately) without attribution or repetition of their GFDL license.
Basing on an example from the editing of "Wal-Mart", the article carries out an insightful discussion of the NPOV issues and the importance of the contextual frame in which "neutral" facts are presented in judging the neutrality.
"...[B]oth sentences pass the undisputed fact test. But they also violate the logic of Wikipedia's rule: undisputed facts equal neutrality which leads to truth."
The author recounts how his own opinion of Wikipedia has changed from enthusiastic support to opposition, due to disillusionment with the way it is operating. The fact that an image he uploaded was deleted due to copyright license issues seems to figure heavily in this change of opinion.
"The site was founded with five pillars of behavior, including 'be open, be welcoming and be civil.' The site now is none of these things and should be left to the trolls, in my opinion."

November

CNN, 4 novembre 2007

"Use with caution: The perils of Wikipedia". Associated Press (CNN). November 4, 2007. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/02/perils.wikipedia/. Retrieved on 2007-11-04. 

(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«This June, former president of the American Library Association, Michael Gorman hit out at academics who endorsed the use of Wikipedia to their students, saying in the Encyclopaedia Britannica blog that "a professor who encourages the use of Wikipedia is the intellectual equivalent of a dietician who recommends a steady diet of Big Macs with everything."»
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(--Christian (discussione) 03:40, 23 mar 2009 (CET))
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«Then, this summer, Virgil Griffith, a 24-year-old Cal Tech graduate student, unearthed some eyebrow-raising data.

Wired.com reported in August that Griffith created an application called WikiScanner that tracks edits that have been made to Wikipedia articles and cross-references them against IP addresses, which can be traced back to companies' offices.

Griffith proved what many had suspected for some time: that edits on company profiles were often originating from IP addresses owned by those companies and even their competitors. Just a few of the corporations listed included Exxon Mobil, Apple, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, along with several politicians' offices.

""It was dead easy," Griffith told Forbes.com. "I just combined two databases and -- poof -- you have these public relations disasters."

Some of those edits, Wired reported, appeared to be "transparently self-interested, either adding positive, press release-like material to entries, or deleting whole swaths of critical material."»
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(--Christian (discussione) 03:40, 23 mar 2009 (CET))
Su Wikiscanner. --Christian (discussione) 03:40, 23 mar 2009 (CET)
(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
« So should we turn our backs on Wikipedia -- scratch it and start again? Absolutely not. As a project -- to gather together our collective knowledge -- Wikipedia is admirable. As a repository for human knowledge, it is invaluable. As an introductory resource on anything from scientific formulae to walk-on characters in TV sitcoms, its breadth is unmatched. Its content is also a priceless reflection of humanity and its concerns. Only a tiny fraction of its vast repository is polluted by vandals, hoaxers and ne'er-do-wells, who in turn are chased down by its dedicated band of editors and administrators.

But a resource that can be edited by experts and non-experts alike will always carry risks, and perhaps that's Wikipedia's greatest lesson for us all: that its very existence must force us to question notions of accuracy and reliability, while giving us a means to correct errors and add to the global knowledge pot.

Two things are certain: no encyclopedia will ever be perfect, and we will never reach consensus on all Wikipedia articles. And in the meantime, while an invaluable first port of call, those using Wikipedia would be well advised to confirm their facts elsewhere.»
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(--Christian (discussione) 03:40, 23 mar 2009 (CET))

December

  • Finkelstein, Seth (2007-12-06). "Inside, Wikipedia is more like a sweatshop than Santa's workshop" (in en) (HTML). The Guardian: pp. 1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/06/wikipedia. Retrieved on 2007-12-05. "Wikipedia is frequently touted as a marvel of collaboration, a model of peer production. But it may be more instructive as a laboratory of pathologies of social interaction. While perhaps - like sausages- it's better not to see the product being made, any familiarity with how Wikipedia operates should give rise to enormous scepticism about its alleged example of harmonious collective action." 
    Discusses current conflicts within Wikipedia and criticizes model on which site is based.
  • Antezana, Fabiola (2007-12-8). "Did Iceland Teen Call Secret White House Phone?". abcnews.go.com. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3973925&page=1. Retrieved on 2007-12-11. "Icelandic Boy, 16, 'Wanted to ... Have a Chat, Invite Him to Iceland and See What He'd Say'" 
    An Icelandic teenager uses Wikipedia as backgound information on Icelandic president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to impersonate him in a telephone call to the the US White House. Vífill Atlason claims he was passed on to several people, each of them quizzing him on President Grímsson's date of birth, where he grew up, who his parents were and the date he entered office. "It was like passing through checkpoints," he said. "But I had Wikipedia and a few other sites open, so it was not so difficult really.
  • Greenberg, Andy (2007-12-14). "What Do You Know?: Google's Know-It-All Project". forbes.com/technology. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/12/14/google-knols-wikipedia-tech-intel-cx_ag_1214knol.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-16. "Google wants in on the Wikipedia game." 
    On Friday, the search engine announced the creation of "Knol," a project that allows users to create their own Wikipedia-like pages on specific subjects. The big difference: users put their names--and Google's advertisements--on their knol pages and split the revenue with the search company. The project , which is described as "experimental" by Google...could be seen as good news for wiki-heads hoping to make money from the same specialized knowledge they give to Wikipedia for free...Wikipedia pages, by comparison, receive more traffic from Google than any Web site other than Myspace or Google's own Google Images, according to Hitwise, a Web analysis group. And that traffic is growing. Last February, Hitwise found that Google traffic to Wikipedia had increased 166% from a year earlier. From an advertising vantage point, Wikipedia has been a black hole; it does not carry any advertising...
    This story is being reported everywhere!

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