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USATODAY.com - A false Wikipedia 'biography'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) It was mind-boggling when my son, John Seigenthaler, journalist with NBC News, phoned later to say he found the same scurrilous text on Reference.com and Answers.com. My two e-mails were answered by identical form letters, advising me that the company would conduct an investigation but might not tell me the results. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996, specifically states that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker." That legalese means that, unlike print and broadcast companies, online service providers cannot be sued for disseminating defamatory attacks on citizens posted by others. www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm   (920 words)

Wikipedia - Anarchopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) It suffers from a combination of software deficiencies and a developer and sysop power structure that is the opposite of democratic, and strongly favours insiders over outsiders. The result is that it is the responsiblity of a banned user to prove their innocence; and somehow defend themselves against the cabal. There are no designated editors to make final decisions, in any language, instead this is a power struggle of sorts, with a GodKing who speaks only English and can't possibly read all the disputed articles or judge their content. eng.anarchopedia.org /Wikipedia   (1700 words)

Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) Requests that cannot be served from the Squid cache are sent to load-balancing servers running the Perlbal software, which in turn pass the request to one of the Apache web servers for page-rendering from the database. Roughly 1200 articles have passed a rigorous set of criteria to reach the highest rank, "featured article" status; such articles are intended to provide a thorough, well-written coverage of their topic, and be supported by many references to peer-reviewed publications. The first was a Golden Nica for Digital Communities of the annual Prix Ars Electronica contest; this came with a €10,000 (£6,588; $12,700) grant and an invitation to present at the PAE Cyberarts Festival in Austria later that year. ref.podzone.net /en/Wikipedia.htm   (3582 words)

Wikipedia There is supporting evidence in favour of the wikipedia model, hence faith is not required in all cases. Given that it is easy to see how the wikipedia model would work for certain topics, it is also easy to see how it would not work for other, more obscure or more controversial, topics. Meaning that when the article was written the wikipedia process had not yet achieved the "steady state that corresponds to the highest degree of accuracy". girtby.net /archives/2004/11/17/wikipedia   (1294 words)

Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems | The Register Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very rare so far, although fellow co-founder Larry Sanger, who is no longer associated with the project, pleaded with the management to improve its content by befriending, and not alienating, established sources of expertise. Wales was responding to author Nicholas Carr, who in a dazzling post on the transcendent New Age "hive-mind" rhetoric that envelops the "Web 2.0" bubble, took time out to examine the quality of two entries picked at random: Bill Gates and Jane Fonda. Something that aspires to be a reference work ought to be judged by the quality of the worst entry, he said, in response to the clock-stopped, right-time defense of the project, not by the fact it's got some good articles. www.theregister.co.uk /2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem   (644 words)

Wikipedia - Wikipedia Biography - Wikipedia encyclopedia - Wikipedia english There is no one central point where censorship can be imposed, and therefore censorship by any given group, restriction to "officially reported" sources, or "pushing" of any particular viewpoint, whether official or unofficial, is difficult to achieve and almost always fails after a time. By the nature of its openness, "edit wars" and prolonged disputes often occur when editors do not agree.[10] A few members of its community have explained its editing process as a collaborative work, a "socially Darwinian evolutionary process"[11], but this is not generally considered by the community to be an accurate self-description. All controversial standpoints which were once voiced and afterwards deleted and even plain page vandalism remain visible for everyone and provide additional information about the article's topic and its degree of controversy and add the dimension of time to every article. www.nettechnowebdesign.com /wikipedia.htm   (6944 words)

Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A drawback of this citation-only approach is that readers may be unable to judge the credibility of a cited source. Roughly 1200 have passed a rigorous set of criteria to reach the highest rank, "featured article" status; such articles are intended to provide a thorough, well-written coverage of their topic, and be supported by many references to peer-reviewed publications. The first was a Golden Nica for Digital Communities of the annual Prix Ars Electronica contest; this came with a €10,000 ($12,700) grant and an invitation to present at the PAE Cyberarts Festival in Austria later that year. duggmirror.com /tech_news/Happy_BDAY_Wikipedia_Turns_6_Today   (4598 words)

K5 Article on Wikipedia Anti-elitism. Many-to-Many: Of course, like the rest of the world, there is a fair number of academics that are against wikipedia, free software and every collaborative and open project (they happen to be the elitists), but that does not mean it's the "academia model". wikipedia removes control on info flow...britanica and harvard will be worried because their control of info gives them power; wikipedia undermines that control. If we're not willing to think critically about things that we are building that have become popular simply because we're afraid of conceding a point to the "other guys" everything we build is going to fail. www.corante.com /many/archives/2005/01/03/k5_article_on_wikipedia_antielitism.php   (5465 words)

USATODAY.com - A false Wikipedia 'biography'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) It was mind-boggling when my son, John Seigenthaler, journalist with NBC News, phoned later to say he found the same scurrilous text on Reference.com and Answers.com. My two e-mails were answered by identical form letters, advising me that the company would conduct an investigation but might not tell me the results. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996, specifically states that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker." That legalese means that, unlike print and broadcast companies, online service providers cannot be sued for disseminating defamatory attacks on citizens posted by others. usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm   (921 words)

John Quiggin » Wikipedia and sausages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) At least with blogs, all your critics can do is flame you in the comments section or on their own blogs. The early version was arch, fun and opinionated, but it has now settled down to being dull and dishonest, because it does not point to her ideological stance. My observation is that it’s widely recognised that WIkipedia is strong on Internet-related topics and popular culture (though, to be fair, Carr criticises the quality of some entries in the latter field). johnquiggin.com /index.php/archives/2006/03/01/wikipedia-and-sausages   (3865 words)

Wikipedia - Trendpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) Of course this may be unnecesary if one views the source code of the website they link to and see a "nofollow" attribute in the meta tags or if the site automatically puts rel="nofollow" on links like many wikis including MediaWiki have by default. While it is criticized for susceptibility to vandalism and innacuracy, its other criticisms relate to the editing process itself -- this type of criticism isn't gripes about reading it, but about editing it. While a lot of criticism is blamed on the administration, the problems all stem with disagreements over editing and edit wars happen regardless of whether admins are there or not. www.trendpediawiki.com /Wikipedia   (1205 words)

PowerPedia:Wikipedia - PESWiki As well as allowing articles to be written, it includes a basic internal macro language, variables and transcluded templating system for page enhancement, and features such as redirection are also provided within the software. Requests that cannot be served from the Squid cache are sent to two load-balancing servers running the Perlbal software, which then pass the request to one of the Apache web servers for page-rendering from the database. The authors of articles need not have any expertise or formal qualifications in the subjects that they edit, and users are warned that their contributions may be "edited mercilessly and redistributed at will" by anyone who wishes to do so. peswiki.com /index.php/Wikipedia   (910 words)

Critical views of Wikipedia - Wikinfo Thus, outsiders, new users, and those constructively critical are often blocked from discussions under vague allegations, such as "trolling", or being a known "problem user". There is no special process or mechanism to deal with a political disputes, with factions that can't or won't reconcile their terms to each other, even when disputes arise over matters of fact. The supposed death of Sinbad was inserted into his article by an anonymous user, and the article wasn't noticed or corrected for 72 minutes. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Critical_views_of_Wikipedia   (5365 words)

Sanger on Seigenthaler’s criticism of Wikipedia. Many-to-Many:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) If someone went on a rampage for 4 hours destroying as much as possible, it could be undone in a matter of minutes (if all contributors are forced to login). Based on the wikipedia history page, obviously some people are pretty pissed off at Seigenthaler. Your site is very informative, interesting and a certain daily visit for critical weather information. www.corante.com /many/archives/2005/12/07/sanger_on_seigenthalers_criticism_of_wikipedia.php   (2115 words)

Wikipedia Watch Wales, it was pointed out that SlimVirgin had an agenda before she began the stub on Daniel Brandt. Even if there had been a sincere consensus among all involved for the article in question, Brandt would have needed to check in frequently to make sure that the article wasn't changed by other anonymous, hostile editors. And finally, I believe that articles on living persons should be generated in such a way that the person is notified, if at all possible, that the article is under development, and has the right to demand minimal standards of evidence to back up assertions made in the article. www.wikipedia-watch.org   (1957 words)

A Criticism of the Wikipedia: with Mark Pellegrini and Phil Sandifer wikipedia, criticism wikipedia, wikipedia criticism, mark pellegrini, phil sandifer, phillip sandifer, jimbo wales, criticism of the wikipedia, Fred Bauder Lets not forget, that a few months before my ban, there was an election to select new members for the arbitration committee – and in my ‘campaign statement’, I stated that certain members of the cabal should resign their positions; amazingly, I received 8% of the vote... Meanwhile, several administrators attempted to obscure the issue, by acting as if their opposition to the poll was based purely on technical and semantic grounds (they thus tried to pretend that while they oppose the poll itself, they still oppose all forms of tyranny... www.kapitalism.net /thoughts/wikipedia.htm   (7689 words)

Criticism of Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some critics and even some contributors say that a NPOV is an unattainable ideal, although this does not rule out the possibility of a close approximation being reached. Other critics allege that NPOV is arguably in practice "mainstream point of view," with the effect that mainstream points of view are privileged and radical points of view disadvantaged. Some argue that criticisms and commentary on certain topics are systematically excluded, deleted or reverted by self-appointed censors, and that even attempts to make compromises or build up articles to include a variety of views are thwarted by uncompromising "vandal-editors" who simply remove or revert unwanted views that don't fit their agenda. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia   (5582 words)

Wikipedia - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) To this day, much of the damage has yet to be undone: for instance most of the western half of the country still believes that Pi is equal to seven (which accounts for the strangely shaped wheels on the cars there). As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the information provided to them, as long as they were given a choice to edit said information, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. Having fulfilled the part of the prophecy where he frees all of us from the false reality of wikipedia, it's left in our hands to finish the rest of the job and destroy it. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia   (7260 words)

Newsvine - Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) When you think about it, wikipedia is really a condensed version of the web in general -- tons of content, with a several bad apples mixed in with the good. If anyone has seen any criticism of the Nature study that is NOT based on complaints from Britannica, I would be very interested in reading it. Their response time to this incident was impressive, and while they initially responded with a playful rebuttal (which has since been removed) they updated Colbert's entry within the 15 minutes he said it would take for info about the segment to go live. spring.newsvine.com /_news/2006/08/01/307864-stephen-colbert-causes-chaos-on-wikipedia-gets-blocked-from-site   (5807 words)

Will: wikipedia watch The dude is definitely a far lefty, and personally I think some of his stuff tends to slip nicely into a conspiracy theory thing, but I think it's relevant to take a look at some of his accusations more closely -- at the very least they provide for good reading. The examples that Brandt cites of wikipedia power abuses are exclusively personal, and therefore have to be taken with a grain of salt... However, I do think that even open Content systems like wikipedia still have much about them that is closed - further scrutiny of the power stuctures of these open content systems is not necessarily a bad idea. interactive.usc.edu /members/will/archives/005570.php   (766 words)

Wikipedia: Where's the Fire? A high ranking Arbitration member named "Essjay" (Ryan Jordan) gave fraudulent information about his credentials and was initially staunchly defended by Jimmy Wales. That's why internet sources are not credible in academic works, and the bibliography should be as long as possible, showing a wide range of published works have been read. This is your opportunity to write a quick explanation for the buzz around a popular subject. technorati.com /wtf/wikipedia   (629 words)

Wikipedia - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) Users who have not contributed to articles are allowed to engage in on-line policy discussions at the discretion of administrators. Administrators maintain that they do not exclude members from discussion for reasons related to a critical policy argument. Elections for the contributor and volunteer positions on the Wikimedia Foundation board were held in June 2004. www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Wikipedia   (1459 words)

Examples of Bias in Wikipedia - Conservapedia The only cited credential for the journalist is that he works for a television "programme-production company," and there is no citation for any of the factual claims in his intemperate and misleading description of the group, which were prompted by an independent criticism in England of the journalist's own work. Public health safety, according to backers of the legislation, depends upon the financial viability of pharmaceutical companies, whose ability to produce sufficient supplies in a timely manner could be imperiled by civil litigation on behalf of vaccine injury victims that was mounting rapidly at the time of its passage. The casual reader of that entry wouldn't even notice a buried reference (well after a description of all the royal lineage) to Liddell's primary claim to fame: his daughter Alice inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. www.conservapedia.com /Examples_of_Bias_in_Wikipedia   (3521 words)

Wikipedia Case Study | Managing the Digital Enterprise The site is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link. Fatally Flawed: Refuting the recent study on encyclopedic accuracy by the journal Nature by Encyclopædia Britannica It is not uncommon for knowledgeable individuals to disagree over the facts on certain subjects. digitalenterprise.org /cases/wikipedia.html   (202 words)

What is Wikipedia? - The history and some controversy surrounding Wikipedia. The encyclopedia therefore has resources dedicated the resolving such issues, and usually strives to publish all sides of any disputes. However, the idea of a publicly-written collaborative encyclopedia was rejected by Nupedia's advisory board, and the project was managed independently by several top Nupedia contributors. To address this issue, and to ensure quality, accurate content, all submissions and edits are moderated and regulated by a staff of regular volunteers. what-is-what.com /what_is/wikipedia.html   (344 words)

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