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K5 Article on Wikipedia Anti-elitism. Many-to-Many: And the good thing is, more information and articles can regularly be added to it, and those that have already been written can be edited, amended, or modified (though for some, I wish that they would remain the way they are, without changing). wikipedia removes control on info flow...britanica and harvard will be worried because their control of info gives them power; wikipedia undermines that control. So articles could be marked by number of views since the last edition to show how many people agrees on the subject. www.corante.com /many/archives/2005/01/03/k5_article_on_wikipedia_antielitism.php   (5470 words)

apophenia: Academia and Wikipedia That is, aside from the lack of editors and fact-checker research staff, you simply can't cite to a wikipedia article and be assured that it won't change tomorrow and say something different. Apart from these two issues, this article is breathtakingly daring in its kicking in of open doors: never trust a single source, as astonishing a revelation as the discovery that many students are inclined to be lazy and naive in their research. Posted by: joe at January 4, 2005 11:00 AM My biggest problem with wikipedia is not that it is not that it for the most part lacks a sanctified peer review. www.zephoria.org /thoughts/archives/2005/01/04/academia_and_wikipedia.html   (2561 words)

Who's afraid of Wikipedia?. Many-to-Many: It is due to the massively decentralised nature of wikipedia that we don't and wouldn't want to ensure that all articles are of similar quality, though we do have a system to mark that an article has surpassed a certain threshold (featuring). There are articles, as danah has pointed out, where it would be far better to go to the primary sources, but that would be as true were a student to cite any encyclopedia. So judge the article, not the source (as ought to be common sense to any serious academic). www.corante.com /many/archives/2005/02/28/whos_afraid_of_wikipedia.php   (1331 words)

Meatball Wiki: WikiPedia The founders of WikiPedia are WikiPedia:Jimbo_Wales, owner of the web portal Bomis, and LarrySanger, who served as WikiPedia's chief organizer until March 1, 2002. The WikiPedia concept becomes difficult when there is "a valid spread of opinion on a subject matter". WikiPedia is suited to describing different flavors of a religion (e.g. www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiPedia   (1593 words)

thetyee.ca Journalism's Future May Be Wikipedia All changes to articles are tracked, and since old versions of articles can be easily reinstated, it is easier to fix an article than it is to damage it. Where's the peer review?" Whether the information in the article is accurate or not, the fact that the articles are written in the sand undermines the credibility. Oftentimes, a controversial article will get altered back and forth until it reaches a compromise state that everybody can agree upon. www.thetyee.ca /MediaCheck/current/JourFutureWikipedia.htm   (2441 words)

Wikipedia - Anarchopedia Analogue situation is relation between anarchism and capitalism: capitalism has power structure which is opposite to anarchism; capitalism teaches us what to do and what not to do in anarchism; capitalism is bad, but it is better then feudalism; the question is: would (contemporary) anarchism exist if capitalism didn't exist. 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. eng.anarchopedia.org /Wikipedia   (1584 words)

Why wiki? Marcus J. Gilroy-Ware - openDemocracy The overwhelming spirit of the project so far is one where people’s edits are based on a genuine desire for the articles they are editing to improve, and on a genuine commitment to the accuracy with which their chosen subject is explained. Obviously, I decided against using the article to help with my thesis, but upon returning I now see that the page has been completely rewritten and that there are no longer any such conflicts. But as so many people still cannot fathom, there is still the question of what possesses people to give their time and contribute to something like this without gaining from it personally. www.opendemocracy.net /globalization-accountability/wikipedia_2882.jsp   (1393 words)

Wikipedia:The perfect stub article - Simple English Wikipedia For articles or stubs about a person, tell what he or she is famous for. Among the traditional proverbial suggestions about Wikidom, there is the idea that articles should not be "perfect" -- having a misspelled word or two draws a reader into correcting that article and being interested in adding more. For biographies and articles about non-concepts (e.g., about countries and cities), definitions are impossible, so begin with a clear, helpful, informative description of the subject. simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_stub_article   (1123 words)

Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article incorporates public domain text from the websites of Singapore Department of Statistics, United States Department of State, the United States Library of Congress and CIA World Factbook (2004). Singapore is a republic with a Westminster system of a unicameral parliamentary government, with the bulk of the executive powers resting in the hands of a cabinet of ministers led by a prime minister. Lee Hsien Loong, the eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew, became the third prime minister on 12 August 2004 after securing the confidence of a majority of Parliament, which is still dominated by the PAP. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Singapore   (4466 words)

WIKIPEDIA The aim is not to write articles from a single objective point of view -- this is a common misunderstanding of the policy -- but rather, to fairly present all views on an issue, attributed to their adherents. In May, 2001, a dozen non-English wikipedia were launched (probably in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, German, Esperanto, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, soon joined by Arabic and Hungarian [1], [1]). In December 2002, the sister project Wiktionary was created; it aims to produce a dictionary and thesaurus of the words in all languages. www.websters-dictionary-online.org /definition/english/wi/wikipedia.html   (2327 words)

Wikipedia:Help - Wikipedia If you are making an article about something that belongs to a group of objects (a city, an astronomical object, a chinese character...) check out if there is a WikiProject on the group and try to follow its directions explicitly. Redirect one article title to another by placing a directive like the one shown to the right on the first line of the article (such as at a page titled "USA"). A Table of Contents will automatically be added to an article that has four or more sections. sa.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Help   (3120 words)

Intellectual property - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stephan Kinsella, in his Journal of Libertarian Studies article "Against Intellectual Property" ([3]), details his objection to intellectual property on the grounds that the word "property" implies scarcity, which may not be applicable to ideas. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. Equivalent provisions, to prevent circumvention of copyright protection have existed in EU for some time, and are being expanded in, for example, Article 6 and 7 the Copyright Directive. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intellectual_property   (6137 words)

[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia article on : Honr. B. Carroll Reece, Tennessee As far as it being removed as a stub, it seems have been a rightous stub in that although he had a life, and was a member of congress and has a museum in eastern Tennessee named after him, a reasonable article is going to be pretty short. That is included in the wikipedia article on German removal after World War II. The only thing of significance he appears to have done is to characterize ethnic cleansing of Germans in Poland as genocide in 1957. mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-September/004716.html   (227 words)

Wikinfo Critical views of Wikipedia The only problem, other than the article being an advert for Postrel's book, is the answer given in the now replicated text is wrong, very wrong, and could not be more wrong unless "Dynamism" were defined as a type of cucumber. The users' edits will be reverted, and the article(s) in question will remain hopelessly wrong or "slanted", solely due to the strength of the community, rather than the burden of facts. Dynamism is a point of view that embraces multiculturality, individual choice and the open society, even if it means uncertainity of the future and losing the privilege of the state to plan the society. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Critical_views_of_Wikipedia   (5043 words)

Wikipedia - Uncyclopedia Similarly, their Al Gore article states that Al Gore was born to human parents, hiding the reality that he is an android prototype built by the Nike corporation. These "joke deletions" are a fun activity that users play towards each other- whomever writes the cleverest message gets to delete someone else's article, and the author of said article checks up on it only to find it removed, and promptly dies in various fits of laughter. Their article on Oprah states that Oprah had libeled the meat industry. www.uncyclopedia.org /uncyclopedia/index.php?title=Wikipedia   (3210 words)

Poynter Online - Feedback The article blames her for a poor relationship with her mother, who died alone and didn't want to interact with anyone (and does that mean that everyone with whacko, troubled relatives is to blame too?); Obviously wikipedia has no editors, no ethics, and no lawyers to advise them about libel, defamation, false light, and mail/wire fraud federal felonies that can be indicted by the feds. * The article does not blame her for her relationship with her mother, it says that there are people who find it hypocritical that she had such a bad relationship with her mother (not knowing about her death for months) while she says that people should 'honor their father and their mother'. www.poynter.org /article_feedback/article_feedback_list.asp?user=1725&id=62126   (1435 words)

Wikipedia Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography For example, the then-new article on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on its English edition was cited often by the press shortly after the incident. Regular users often maintain a 'watchlist' of articles of interest to them, so that they are immediately shown which of these articles have changed since their last log in. Administrators are the largest such group, privileged with the ability to prevent articles from being edited, delete articles, or block users from editing in accordance with community policy. www.thelocalcolorartgallery.com /encyclopedia/Wikipedia   (5028 words)

Mark Pellegrini and Philip Sandifer Then I got jumped on for the way I categorized my articles and all of them reverted before I even was given an opportunity to discuss the way I categorized my articles. Articles with a single picture are encouraged to have that picture at the top of the article, right-aligned. The two pictures on the article are there on purpose until a consensus about the appropriate position has been found. www.kapitalism.net /thoughts/wikipedia.htm   (4508 words)

Wikimedia press releases/One million Wikipedia articles (US)/Print - Meta Even articles covering controversial topics can be developed using this process. It is increasingly used as a resource by students, journalists, and anyone who needs a starting point for research. This has led to two international prizes in 2004, the Prix Ars Electronica for "Digital Communities" and a Webby Award for "Best Community". meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/One_million_Wikipedia_articles_(US)/Print   (660 words)

TCS: Tech Central Station - The Faith-Based Encyclopedia All these arguments aside, the article is what might be expected of a high school student, and at that it would be a C paper at best. Unfortunately, a couple of references within the body of the article that mention his age in certain years are clearly derived from a source that used the 1757 date, creating an internal inconsistency that the reader has no means to resolve. The article is rife with typographic errors, styling errors, and errors of grammar and diction. www.techcentralstation.com /111504A.html   (2072 words)

Free Software Magazine - The FUD-based Encyclopedia I know other, very intelligent people, who had a “gosh, what were we thinking” reaction to McHenry’s article, as if an angry god had come down from upon high to punish them for falling astray. The article, published in Tech Central Station, was entitled “The Faith-Based Encyclopedia,&; and was written by Robert McHenry [McHenry, 2004]. McHenry’s article is not so much remarkable for its own points (which I dissect below) as for the reaction to it. www.freesoftwaremagazine.com /free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia   (690 words)

[WikiEN-l] Somebody with a good reputation will write a critical article about Wikipedia and esp. the article [[Prem Rawat]] that is locked now I have to admit that some ex-followers of Prem Rawat will only be satisfied if you start the article with something like "Prem Rawat is a charlatan cult leader who has misled thousands of people with his propaganda and who claimed to God almighty to save mankind. Due to this many people wasted many years of their lives." Though I feel strongly that the ex-followers are partially right due to my own experience with a charlatan guru aka cult leader, I understand that this can never be written down following NPOV guidelines. The defenders have to resort to ad hominem attacks on the critics because they ran out of reasonable or logical ways to defend their guru. mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikien-l/2004-July/014406.html   (597 words)

Mark Twain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Twain wrote an anti-war article entitled The War Prayer during the Spanish-American War. It was submitted for publication, but on March 22, 1905, Harper's Bazaar rejected it as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine." Eight days later, Twain wrote to his friend Dan Beard, to whom he had read the story, "I don't think the prayer will be published in my time. I showed my performance to some pilots, and they eagerly rushed it into print in the 'New Orleans True Delta.' It was a great pity; for it did nobody any worthy service, and it sent a pang deep into a good man's heart. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Twain   (3134 words)

BBC - h2g2 - Wikipedia Discussion is possible, by appending a text page to an article and typing comments into it; but this is reserved for discussion of the content of the articles. If there is an article of that name already in the encyclopedia, this automatically produces a link to it, which is displayed in blue. There is a small group of administrators, with the power to block contributions from particular IP addresses, and with the power to permanently delete articles, but their services are rarely called upon. www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A918434   (1241 words)

Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In this English version, started in 2001, we are currently working on 815,502 articles. You may read and edit articles in many different languages: All New articles: 5 10 15 20 25 30 en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Main_Page   (658 words)

Wiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NRG78 article discussing the role of "enterprise" wikis in capturing and managing corporate memory From the change log, other functions are accessible in most wikis: the Revision History showing previous page versions; and the diff feature, highlighting the changes between two revisions. The scalability of the search depends on whether the wiki engine uses a database or not; indexed database access is necessary for high speed searches on large wikis. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wiki   (2388 words)

Mind Hacks: Schizophrenia featured article on Wikipedia Schizophrenia is today's featured article on wikipedia and already activity has hit fever pitch. The article discussion page is full of some of the more memorable and ill-informed additions, including "Medication skipping schizos murder people everywhere" and someone threatening to contact CNN if their edits weren't included. It's an article I've been quite heavily involved with over the last few years, and it has proved as much a project in diplomacy and fire fighting as it has in understanding the science and history of this complex diagnosis. www.mindhacks.com /blog/2005/10/schizophrenia_featur.html   (256 words)

CNN.com - Wikipedia: The know-it-all Web site - Aug. 4, 2003 What is unique is that, not only is it free and easy to use, it also allows users to go in and edit an entry. In the last two years alone, the site has racked up over 132,000 articles offering a single take of the world from a global tribe more likely to surf the web than the waves of Hong Kong's Stanley Beach. It's described as a free encyclopedia logging over 140,000 articles sent in by people from all over the world. www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/internet/08/03/wikipedia/index.html   (544 words)

[WikiEN-l] Re: Googlebombing by activists raising Wikipedia article ranking a blog), that would be a heck of a lot of links and would probably help enormously to raise the article to rank 1. mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikien-l/2004-April/012100.html   (137 words)

How Authoritative is Wikipedia  Mjollnir), yet nobody seemed to notice the incongruity that a god whose special power is lifting a hammer would be depicted with an axe or a spear. Thor's hammer, and Magni is commonly associated with that weapon. This makes a traditional encyclopedia an authoritative source, and when you look something up in Britannica, you are relying on the reputation of the publisher that everything has been verified. www.frozennorth.org /C2011481421/E652809545/index.html   (1132 words)

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