What happens when you knock on the ‘door’ of the Wikipedia founder? Apparently nothing, if you are Spanish language speaker. Compelled to create an article for ‘the mother of all wikis’, I assumed that writing about some hobby or trivial subject was not enough for me, so I decided to ask myself this question.
The next step in order to…
Some time has passed since the official launch of qwiki (see the Masters of Media Blog initial impressions). Although still in alpha, a more profound critique can be put forward as the platform evolved and opened itself to users.
The Edge project asked artists, scientists and writers how the Internet changed their way of thinking. Specifically their way of thinking, resulting in a book with diverse and personal essays. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia and Citizendium wrote an essay to answer this question, and I found his point of view very refreshing.
There’s no denying that…
Polish Wikipedia has more than 832 000 articles which makes it 5th according to the number of entries, after English, German, French and Italian edition.
I believe that it could have got even more entries if it wasn’t for the annoying Polish administrators. I decided to test how liberal they are by dedicating my first wiki entry to ‘antygwałtki’ -a…
Questioning whether one can sabotage Wikipedia is out of the question; there have been many cases throughout the last years. Some were humourous, others were insulting, many were vulgar. These cases were all to be found by Wikipedia editors sooner or later. We also wanted to put a critical view on Wikipedia, but not just by adding some abusive sentences.…
So you’re thinking, ‘fight’… ‘battle’? What kind of nonsense is this guy stirring up? How can you fight Wikipedia?
Good question. The only answer to that is yes, it’s possible, and most importantly, probable if you’re intending on making an entry of your own.
Well I set out to do just that, and given a forewarning of possible bot or…
I never thought one Wikipedia entry could go as wrong as mine has. Although it was quite easy and interesting to write such an article, keeping it turned into a true challenge. Yet, I am sad to say, it will be deleted any way on Friday, September 30th, in spite of my efforts to save it.
I thought it…
Contrary to many stories I heard before attempting to make my first contributions to Wikipedia, the actual process was not that much of a hassle at all. I made three (albeit minor) contributions, namely editing two existing entries and adding one new entry. All of my contributions are still there, in their original unedited form. Did I get lucky?
This week I made a new (dutch) Wikipedia page about ‘Source Festival’, this is a music festival which has two editions a year, one in July and one in February . Wikipedia Source Festival
Because this festival has had a lot visitors in the past 5 years and it’s grown larger each year,…
With 19 million articles Wikipedia is the biggest and most popular encyclopedia that has been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Since its launch in July 2001 it has been the object of research. In 2010 computer scientist Joseph Reagle wrote a book named the Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia in which he examines the unique collaborative community culture of Wikipedia.