July 7th, 2007
Brit believes that Wikipedia engages in censorship
Is Wikipedia running a censorship board? John Barberio thinks so. After more than two years as an active contributor to the free online encyclopedia, the 27-year-old Oxfordshire man recently left the project over the behavior of its “OTRS volunteers,” unpaid administrators who act on reader complaints about the site’s […]
June 29th, 2007
The anonymous Wikipedia editor responsible for posting on Wikipedia that WWE wrestler Chris Benoit’s wife was dead 14 hours before law enforcement officers discovered the body has confessed to making the entry, stating that the comment was a “terrible coincidence.” The editor left a lengthy apology to the Wikipedia community.
In a post made at […]
March 30th, 2007
NPR Morning Edition podcasts the project by Wikipedia’s co-founder, Larry Sanger to create a rival encyclopedia site. Sanger says Citizendium will require contributors to use real names and prove expertise. And experts will be asked to check for accuracy.
From citizendium.org:
The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, […]
January 25th, 2007
Search Engine Journal has confirmed that Google methods of avoiding spam are being integrated into Wikipedia. The nofollow attribute introduced by Google in 2005 was originally intended to hamstring blog comment spam and has since been the source of much wrangling and discussion by SEO’s as to what exactly it does and which search engines […]