A person who contributes to Wikipedia. See Wikipedia and wiki.
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- Will Wikipedia fail?
- Simply stated: according to cyberlaw professor Eric Goldman, Wikipedia will fail. According to Ars Technica, Goldman fancies Wikipedia, but thinks that the site contains the "seeds of its own destruction" -- and the online encyclopedia will need to choose between being "high quality" and "open" to survive....
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Editing Crowd Sourced Content: the Wikipedia Discussion
- Best Buy, the retail box store and internet source for electronics, televisions, DVD players, home & car audio, computers, cameras, music, movies, software, games etc is at the cutting edge of modern online technologies and facilitating their use by as many purchase prospects as possible. The embedded...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Laughter and forgetting on Wikipedia
- What does Wikipedia have in common with the old Czechoslovakian communist party? Both excel in the art of forgetting. The communists, of course, were particularly adept at forgetting. At the beginning of Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the Czech writer Milan Kundera describes a scene on...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Wikipedia and its 'bad seed': Is Web 2.0 a friend of true knowledge?
- In “Web 2.0 smackdown: intellectuals vs. amateurs in Citizendium” I discuss Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger’s announced highbrow spin off of the touted “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”:Larry Sanger’s Citizendium mission to shepherd the brain power of what he estimates is 3% of the Internet population; intellectuals or ‘educated, thinking...
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
- Enterprise 2.0 = Next Generation IT
- After Wikipedia deleted the "Enterprise 2.0" entry, the Enterprise Irregulars swarmed, responding to the critique of the term by a Wikipedian editor as a "neologism of dubious utility" and taking a crack at defining it. Jason Wood questions the logic of excising the term for the peoples' encyclopedia:Truthfully, if Wikipedia...
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- The real issue: Wikipedia can be better
- The real issue: Wikipedia can be betterThe difference between Wikipedia and Britannica...Mr. Ratcliffe makes an excellent point about Wikipedia needing some transparancy. At the end of the day though, I will never trust Wikipedia. Why? Let me give some examples of where Wikipedia falls short compared to a traditional reference...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
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