Microsoft Closes Encarta, But this Doesn’t Have to be the End
Note: This was originally posted one week ago at the blog of my employer, New Media Strategies. This post is now dated if not out of date per se, but considering it’s about Wikipedia, better late to...
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The Wikipedia Story on Dead Tree
Just in the mail this past week: The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia by Andrew Lih. Lih appears on the Wikipedia Weekly podcast and has been on...
View ArticleFlagged Revisions Come to the English Wikipedia
Earlier this week, New York Times web reporter Noam Cohen, who does some of the best Wikipedia reporting this side of The Register, broke the news about a decision by Wikipedia’s parent organization to...
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What Does Objectivism Have to Do With Wikipedia?
Writer Evgeny Morozov has a long essay about Wikipedia, organized as a review of Andrew Lih‘s “The Wikipedia Revolution“, in the latest issue of Boston Review. Morozov identifies his chosen takeaway in...
View ArticleThe Wikipedian Becomes Eclectic: Pending Changes on KCRW
On Friday afternoon, I joined a panel of guests on the nationally-syndicated KCRW talk show To the Point with Warren Olney. My co-panelists included: Andrew Lih, who may be familiar to readers of this...
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The State of The State of Wikipedia
Chances are good that if you follow Wikipedia closely, then you have probably seen the following video: The State of Wikipedia from JESS3 on Vimeo. Last week, it was featured on both TechCrunch and...
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Wikidata
Although Wikipedia is by far the best-known of the Wikimedia collaborative projects, it is just one of many. Just this last week, Wikimedia Deutschland announced its latest contribution: Wikidata (also...
View ArticleBloggingheads.tv: “Wikipedia’s Newbie Problem”
In the past few weeks, I’ve begun hosting a new maybe-series on Bloggingheads.tv covering technology, tech policy, business and media. For my second installment, I decided to ask Andrew “Fuzheado”...
View ArticleLook Ma, I’m On Wikipedia Weekly!
On Wikipedia, every contributor is granted their pseudonymity if they want it—and many do—yet some step out from behind their usernames to participate in a podcast (and now YouTube series) called...
View ArticleReflections on WikiConference USA
This past weekend I attended WikiConference USA at the New York Law School in—you guessed it—New York City. Not counting Wikimania 2012 in DC or Wikimania 2006 in Cambridge, this was somehow the first...
View ArticleWikimania 2014: We Needed to Talk About Paid Editing, So We Did
This past weekend I attended Wikimania, the annual worldwide conference for Wikipedia and related wiki-sites, this time held in London and the third I’ve attended. And for the first time, this year, I...
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Making the Sausage: Dariusz Jemielniak on How to Think About Edit Wars
Only a handful of serious books about Wikipedia exist; one of the first, and arguably the only essential one, is Andrew Lih’s “The Wikipedia Revolution”—though it was published in 2009 and could surely...
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Wikimania 2015 in Words, Images, and Tweets
How could I possibly summarize Wikimania—the annual conference for Wikipedians, Wikimedians, wiki-enthusiasts, and open knowledge advocates—in a single blog post? I’ve done a few times before, or at...
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Wikipedia at 15: How it Played in the Media
Happy 15th birthday, Wikipedia! As any wiki-watcher surely expected, today’s milestone brought an avalanche of news coverage not seen since, well, the last round number anniversary, when Wikipedia...
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A Note on Wikimania 2016, and a Small Request
View from the road to Esino Lario. (Ed Erhart, CC-BY-SA-4.0) At this very moment, Wikimedians are traveling from all over the world to attend Wikimania, the annual conference for Wikipedia and its...
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Gene Weingarten Proves Wikipedia Still Needs a Better Way to Deal With Feedback
Wikipedia has two kinds of problems. The first category includes problems it recognizes and realizes how to fix, sometimes through a policy change but more often, in recent years especially, by...
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What You Missed at Wikimania 2017
N.B. At the end of this post I’ve embedded a Spotify playlist for the delightful 2006 album “Trompe-l’oeil” by the Francophone Montreal indie rock band Malajube. It’s what I was listening to as I...
View ArticleMicrosoft Closes Encarta, But this Doesn’t Have to be the End
Note: This was originally posted one week ago at the blog of my employer, New Media Strategies. This post is now dated if not out of date per se, but considering it’s about Wikipedia, better late to...
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The Wikipedia Story on Dead Tree
Just in the mail this past week: The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia by Andrew Lih. Lih appears on the Wikipedia Weekly podcast and has been on...
View ArticleFlagged Revisions Come to the English Wikipedia
Earlier this week, New York Times web reporter Noam Cohen, who does some of the best Wikipedia reporting this side of The Register, broke the news about a decision by Wikipedia’s parent organization to...
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