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2008 September

  • Madeo, Cathy (2008-09-04). "The Gods Cheat Too" (in English). New York, NY: Columbia Spectator. "[O]ne day, I plugged “positivism” into Wikipedia’s search box and, dumbfounded, read a definition that was exactly like the one written in my notebook! I had the most disheartening of realizations. My professor, whose intellect I had raised to god-like stature, was plagiarizing Wikipedia in her lectures. The proof was too black and white to deny. As I typed in more and more phrases, more and more periods of history, it became blatantly clear to me that a considerable amount of my professor’s lecture came verbatim from Wikipedia." 
  • Schliebs, Mark (2008-09-09). "Wikipedia users divided over sexual material". News.com.au. "Child protection campaigners say Wikipedia has "crossed the line" by allowing graphic videos and photographs of sexual acts on its articles - and even some of the site's own editors say the content is dressed-up porn." 
    Reports a debate within Wikipedia of how much illustration should accompany sexuality topics. Quotes Childwise head Bernadette McMenamin as saying that sex education is "a good thing", but displaying sexualised images in an online encyclopaedia "crosses the line".
Also at Newsblaze Canada
"Wikipedia is democracy's answer to the encyclopedia - but even in democracies - wars break out. And during a heated campaign - "creative edits" that so pervade the site can cross over - into virtual vandalism. Susan Ormiston heads into the virtual battlefield of the leaders' wikipedia pages"
  • Finkelstein, Seth (2008-09-25). "Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever Wales says". UK: The Guardian. "Beware corporate executives posing as social visionaries. The hype may be about the fulfillment of human potential, but the reality is the exploitation of digital sharecropping." 
    Article in the Guardian Technology section critical of Jimmy Wales professed belief in Ayn Rand's "fanatical capitalist intellectualism" and its contradiction with the altruism that motivates the massive amounts of free labour that build Wikipedia.
  • Brown, Alex (2008-09-30). "Italy eyes Gower, warts'n'all". Australia: The Sydney Morning Herald. "Mallett initially turned to Wikipedia to research Gower, and was aghast to note the majority of the Australian's profile fell under the sub-category, "Controversy", detailing his numerous brushes with officialdom in Australia." 
    Italian rugby coach Nick Mallet initially reluctant to recruit player Craig Gower because of the chequered past outlined on his Wikipedia entry.

October

"Most hockey-related Wikipedia vandalisms are the Internet equivalent of a prank call to a bowling alley: Make the easy joke about 12-pound balls, hang up and high-five your buddy."
  • Young, Joshua (Mon 20 Oct 2008). "Wikipedia vs. Joe the Plumber". Columbia Journalism Review. 
"Wikipedia users debate Wurzelbacher’s newsworthiness and notability."
  • Hutchins, Matt (2008-10-16). "Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0: Benkler says networks can outperform Leviathan". Harvard Law Review. "describes the political and economic significance of the social networks which are possible on the Internet and emphasizes the importance of commons-based production, such as Wikipedia." 
    Reports a lecture by Yochai Benkler entitled "After Selfishness: Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0 at Halftime" which explored how the success of the Creative Commons model should guide the development of a new model of human behavior which discards the narrow assumptions of twentieth century economic models.
  • Garfinkel, Simson L. (November/December 2008). "Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth - Why the online encyclopedia's epistemology should worry those who care about traditional notions of accuracy.". Technology Review (MIT). "With little notice from the outside world, the community-written encyclopedia Wikipedia has redefined the commonly accepted use of the word "truth."" 
    Explores the way Wikipedia evolved its definitions of "Verifiability" , "no original research" ,and "neutral point of view" and how these have combined to give a completely new definition of what Truth is.
  • "Wins for Wikipedia, YouTube and the Gates Foundation - Announcement of the winners of the 2008 Economist Innovation Awards". The Economist (Pitchengine). Friday 31 Oct 2008. 
    The Economist awards its annual Innovation Award for Business Process to Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia , for public collaboration as a form of product and content development.

November

"The age of public collaboration over the Internet is still only in its infancy, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told AFP in an interview."
  • Semuels, Alana (2008-11-05). "Wikipedia parent launches fundraising campaign". Los Angeles Times. "Executive Director Sue Gardner said she hoped that by 2020 the Wikipedia user base would reach one in three people around the world and that one in 10 people would be active participants." 
    Report on Wikimedias annual fund raising campaign which hopes to achieve $6 million by 15th January.
  • Heater, Brian (2008-11-06). "Obama Gets a Landslide of Wikipedia Edits". PC Magazine. "While millions of Americans were out partying or drowning their sorrows during Tuesday night's election returns, plenty of Wikipedia editors were busy updating crucial election-related pages of the free encyclopedia." 
    Reports the editing of the candidates' Wikipedia articles on the night of the US election.
  • About news coverage on Wikipedia on election night in the U.S. Mentions several editors and other languages.
"Sure. Stephen Colbert did that once, right on his show in front of millions of people, and everybody laughed at the joke, ha ha, until they actually went to Wiki and saw that Colbert's changes were real."
  • Wroe, David (17 Nov 2008). "German MP injuncts Wikipedia over Stasi claims" (in English). Daily Telegraph. "A far-left German politician has been forced to withdraw an injunction against online encyclopedia Wikipedia after it revealed details of his Stasi past." 
    The action caused a sharp increase in donations to the German Wikipedia.
Reported in multiple media sources. AP Deutsche Welle Speigel Online
"It's Wikipedia, you see. It's just perfect for stand-ups because we can inhale Wikipedia and chuck it out in stupid form." [...] "But it's a real people power thing - you get on there and there's information on everything. You type in spoons, there's stuff on spoons; Cats, there's stuff on cats; Monkeys - all the monkeys. All the different monkeys."
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Kevin Clauson presenting results of the study about the accuracy of drug information on wikipedia at the medicine 2.0 conference, Toronto 5th Sept 2008
Article details various drugs which have articles on Wikipedia; says "Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects"; persons doing the study "found few factual errors" but "entries were often missing important information", about side effects or effects of drug combinations.
This story was also covered in Hoeksma, Jon (2008-12-03). "Wikipedia can omit key drug information". E-Health Europe. http://www.ehealtheurope.net/news/4376/wikipedia_can_omit_key_drug_information. Retrieved on 2008-12-03.  The stories are based on a paper Clauson, Kevin A; Hyla H Polen, Maged N Kamel Boulos & Joan H Dzenowagis. "Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in Wikipedia". The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 42 (12): 1814-1821. DOI 10.1345/aph.1L474. http://www.theannals.com/cgi/content/full/42/12/1814. Retrieved on 2008-12-03.  which says "No factual errors were found in Wikipedia, whereas 4 answers in Medscape conflicted with the answer key; errors of omission were higher in Wikipedia than in MDR. There was a marked improvement in Wikipedia over time, as current entries were superior to those 90 days prior." I challenged Kevin Clauson, the lead author, when he presented interim results of this study at the Medicine 2.0 conference, about why he & his team hadn't corrected the errors and omissions they had detected - he said he was going to take that question back to the regulatory professional bodies.

2008 December

Master New Media, 1 dicembre 2008

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Articolo di Gar Campbell su come inserire contenuti commerciali su Wikipedia.

Interessante approfondimento da parte di chi, per la prima volta, vuole inserire contenuti commerciali (i.e. la voce della propria azienda); pieno di criche e consigli per chi vuole affrontare questa impresa. --Andrea (discussione) 14:47, 16 feb 2009 (CET)
"Concerned that many would-be contributors to Wikipedia are being scared away, the foundation that runs the Internet encyclopedia is getting an $890,000 grant to try to make the editing process more user-friendly."
  • Cellan-Jones, Rory (8 Dec 08). "Wikipedia is censored". BBC News. "On the one side, a body which has been fighting to free the web of child abuse images, waging a war which has the support of the vast majority of web users. On the other, the digital libertarians who believe that once we let a group of unelected regulators decide what is fit for us to see on the web, we are on the road to Orwellian thought control." 
    Wikipedia is blocked by the UK's Internet Watch Foundation for an image of the German rock band The Scorpions album "Virgin Killer" .

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  • "Wikipedia Receives German Pictorial History" (in English). Deutsche Welle. 6 Dec 2008. "The public had a right to access the photos, said Angelika Menne-Haritz, vice-president of the Federal Archives in Berlin, adding that the deal with Wikipedia would facilitate public access to the material." 
The German Federal Archives has provided online encyclopedia Wikipedia with 100,000 historical images for free public access.
  • Finkelstein, Seth (18 December 2008). "Sting in the Scorpions tale is the exposure of Wiki's weakness". The Guardian. "The Virgin Killer image may have done a disservice by channelling discussion into well-worn channels of free speech versus censorship. There are deeper issues here which will continue to fester: the structural problems of accountability and responsibility, which are intrinsically poor in Wikipedia." 
    The author claims the Scorpions album cover controversy has exposed weaknesses and contradictions in Wikipedia's editorial process.
  • Lynch, John (2008-12-19). "Judge backs state, says locations of computers are off limits to the AP". Arkansas Democrat Gazette. 
"A Pulaski County Circuit judge on Thursday derailed efforts by The Associated Press to determine which state employees changed information about former Gov. Mike Huckabee and other state officials on the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia."
"In increasing numbers, scientists are reasoning that, if people are going to look at the Wikipedia page anyway, the scientific community should probably ensure that the information there is good. In the latest manifestation of this trend, the journal RNA Biology is requiring that authors of a specific type of paper submit a Wikipedia entry for peer review..."

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See wikinews: for more information, n:RNA journal submits articles to Wikipedia
  • Caitlin, Moran (2008-12-22). "Wikipedia's limitless knowledge means unlimited fun". The Times. "But the interesting thing about Wikipedia is that, unlike a similar printed resource, or an online equivalent written by a small group of necessarily time-restricted experts, its entries are, theoretically, unlimited. If someone has it within them to write 20,000 words on, say, the different types of tarmacadam available, then they may write, and then post, those 20,000 words. This jump into infinite detail proves, over the pages of Wikipedia, to be deeply revelatory about the nature of humanity. Take, for instance, the entry on Waitrose. It appears to have been written by someone who believes passionately that one of the crucial, stabilising forces of the Universe is disseminating as much information about the uniform policy of Waitrose, and to as many people as possible. The detail is merciless, and unending." 
"When Steve Smith first learned about Wikipedia, he thought it was a stupid idea...Four years later, [Smith has become] a Wikipedia page administrator with more than 13,000 edits to his name..."
"Contributions to Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia, are on track to double this year after its founder, Jimmy Wales, posted a pitch for more funds on Christmas Eve, the organization said Friday."
  • "Wikipedia pulls in flood of cash from users". Globe and Mail. December 30, 2008. "The result is remarkably similar to the online fundraising efforts of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama, who raised an unprecedented campaign war chest by collecting thousands of small contributions from supporters over the Internet." 
    Reports the 892 per cent rise in daily donations following Jimmy Wales' appeal.
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