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Expertise vs. Wikiknowledge

Tuesday morning 10 o’clock: Workday as usual. I’m working on some notification plug-in for the forum on the website I manage for VOS/ABB – an organisation looking after the interest of people working in and managing public primary- and...
By Frank Molenaar on 10/04/10 Comments Off on Expertise vs. Wikiknowledge
Wikipedia Labyrinth

Wikipedia Labyrinth

When I figured out I wanted to write about wikipedia.org/wiki/Cineville">Cineville I found out that as expected, writing a Wikipedia entry was much harder than I hoped for. What...
By Fei An Tjan on 10/02/10 Comments Off on Wikipedia Labyrinth
Will Wikipedia end the disregarding of Swedish artist?

Will Wikipedia end the disregarding of Swedish artist?

Swedish singers are often disregarded. They won’t make it out side the Swedish borders. What happened there? Did publicity fall short? Didn’t MTV pick it up? Or is there some other reason why Swedish musicians mostly don’t appear on...
By Chris Hoogeveen on 09/27/10 2

Book review: Andrew Lih – The Wikipedia revolution

How have a bunch of nobodies created the world’s largest encyclopedia? In his book, The Wikipedia revolution (2009), Andrew Lih set himself the goal to answer this question. And he has done so quite successfully. He exstensively maps the...
By Lennard Torbijn on 09/20/10 Comments Off on Book review: Andrew Lih – The Wikipedia revolution

The Wiki Beehive

Generally Wikipedia is praised for it’s collective driven overload of information. “Britannica’s biggest errors are of omission, not commission. It’s shallow in some categories and out of date in many others. And then there are the millions of entries...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/21/09 Comments Off on The Wiki Beehive

What is New Media? A wiki initiative

We have all heard the question “What is new media?” and we often wonder about it ourselves on this blog and elsewhere. The What’s New Media blog also deals with this issue and has recently started a wiki with...
By Anne Helmond on 03/23/07 1

Wikipedia Battle Log: Neologisms, Minorities and US Centric Views

In a couple of the previous posts on MoM we announced that we were adding the term ‘Shocklog’ to the English Wikipedia. Why? Well, the term is used often in the field of Media Studies and genre specific blogs...
By Twan Eikelenboom on 02/06/07 18
The networked book: GAM3R 7H30RY & Code Version 2.0

The networked book: GAM3R 7H30RY & Code Version 2.0

Writing a book online and facilitating a discussion around it seems to be very popular these days. McKenzie Wark is working on GAM3R 7H30RY which will be published by Harvard University Press in April 2007, and it will contain...
By Anne Helmond on 12/11/06 4