K5 Article on Wikipedia Anti-elitism. Many. Slashdot has a roundup of criticism of the Wikipedia, including a pointer to a Kuro5hin article by Larry Sanger, a co-founder of the Wikipedia, making three strong criticisms of the Wikpedia as it stands. The first criticism is that the Wikpedia lacks the perception of acccuracy: My point is that, regardless of whether Wikipedia actually is more or less reliable than the average encyclopedia, it is not perceived as adequately reliable by many librarians, teachers, and academics.
The reason for this is not far to seek: those librarians etc. note that anybody can contribute and that there are no traditional review processes. You might hasten to reply that it does work nonetheless, and I would agree with you to a large extent, but your assurances will not put this concern to rest. This analysis seems to be correct on the surface, and at the same time deeply deeply wrong. This is not some easily fixed cosmetic flaw, it is the Wikipedia’s driving force. Think tank: The serious gap in Wikipedia’s knowledge -Times Onli. Online - Top Stories. Carol Marbin Miller has six long, deep drawers filled with child death cases.
“And each one is as bad as the one before it,” she said in a phone interview with Poynter. Since the mid-1990s, Marbin Miller has covered Florida’s … Read more Tools: Permalink. Andart: Join the Cloud. Join the Cloud I participated in the Cloud Intelligence Symposium at the "Human Nature" Ars Electronica Festival 2009.
It was a very fun event that linked rather theoretical considerations by me, Stephen Downes, and Ethan Zuckerman with very real-world applications and activism by Isaac Mao, Hamid Tehrani, Xiao Qiang, Evgeny Morozov, Kristen Taylor, Teddy Ruge, Pablo Flores, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Juliana Rotich. Audio and video of our talks can be downloaded here. Presentations are appearing on Slideshare. Cloud Superintelligence My slides can be found here. A simple example is how Wikipedia page quality may develop. This works even if people have a noisy estimation of their own competence (or the page's quality): even if the noise is two standard deviations there will be almost one deviation improvement in quality after 100 visitors.
Another reason why big groups are good is that they can maintain more knowledge and competence than small groups. Look This Up on Wikipedia: How Big Is Too Big? - Bits Blog - NYT. Considering that Wikipedia has reached Top Five world status among Web sites – with more than 330 million users – its annual Wikimania conference, which ended Friday night in Buenos Aires, featured a lot of hand-wringing about all the problems the project faces. After emerging on the scene less than a decade ago, Wikipedia is facing a slowdown in growth. Why? Are new contributors being scared away? Are there too many rules? Why are the biggest players in the community overwhelmingly men? Five Things Wikipedia's Founder Has Learned About Online Co. Wikipedia enters a new chapter | Technology. Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English.
It's all a very long way from January 2001, when Wikipedia launched. Its first million articles took five years to put together, but the second was achieved by 2007. It was not just the number of articles that grew, but also the number of people involved in creating them. During Wikipedia's first burst of activity between 2004 and 2007, the number of active users on the site rocketed from just a few thousand to more than 300,000. Learning curve However, statistics released by the site's analytics team suggest Wikipedia's explosive growth is all but finished. Elsewhere, the number of active Wikipedians (those contributing to the site in some way) now comes in at just under 500,000. From the numbers, it looks as though Wikipedia is stagnating. Include me out Less is more? Is Wikipedia Production Slowing Down? Knol: a unit of knowledge. User talk:Dragons flight/Log analysis - Wikipedia, the free ency. [edit] The claim the upload rate is decreasing is misleading.
Rather, more traffic is shifting to commons and it's seeing an increase in uploads which probably more than offsets the decline on enwp local uploads. --Gmaxwell 00:10, 10 October 2007 (UTC) Changes on commons may or may not be associated to changes on EN, but the fact that local uploads are decreasing is interesting evidence of... [insert favorite explanation here]. It's pretty easy to demonstrate that a good portion of the change is shifting by instead monitoring the number of images in use on enwp. Where did the article history data come from? By choosing randomly from the page table for namespace=0 and brute force downloading the edit history list as rendered by action=history. Choosing randomly how? Functionally the former. Thats still a little vague. I used the September dump, but rather than ORDER BY RAND() I used python's random number generator to pick from a list of page ids with namespace=0. Drat! Not News[edit] Oh. Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Has Wikipedia peaked?
The good folks at Slashdot posted an interesting blurb about what seems to be declining activity on Wikipedia. If these charts are accurate, then it would seem that activity has indeed taken a sharp downward trend since early ’07. Evidently, this being Wikipedia, there’s an active discussion about these stats, their accuracy and their meaning. Regardless, it raises some interesting questions about knowledge creation, the limits thereto, and also regarding the future of Wikipedia.
Perhaps its time for a vetted, edited Version X.X., available for download. Slotting a vetted version of Wikipedia into every classroom in North America, or into the $100 laptop, would do wonders for improving access to knowledge. Michael H. Goldhaber » Blog Archive » Keen Review/Riff V: Wicked. User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool. Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool is a utility that detects and uncovers instances of wiki-targeted online vandalism.
By using the RC feed to check a wiki-page's differences against a list of common vandal terms, this tool will detect many of the commonly known acts of online vandalism. Installation[edit] Copy the following content into your common.js file. After it is saved, press CTRL+F5 (FN+F5 for Mac OSX) to reload the common.js file. importScript('User:Lupin/recent2.js'); Save the page and follow the instructions above the edit window to force-reload the page and clear your browser cache. If you want to use the script on another wiki, you can find the code to use in your monobook.js file by first using the above instructions on this wiki, then copying and adapting the resulting code. Usage[edit] There should now be five new items in your toolbox (just under the Search bar of monobook skin): When you visit these pages, a live, scrolling feed will begin.
Tips[edit] Bugs and limitations[edit] Tools/Navigation popups. Navigation popups Icon An example of popups over the link Wikipedia, using the skin Monobook. Click to enlarge preview. Navigation popups is a script, written in JavaScript (source), that offers easy access to article previews and several Wikipedia functions in popup windows which appear when you hover the cursor over links. If you're having trouble, you may like to peruse some frequently asked questions. Features Small image preview for an article (Classic skin screenshot, but works fine with Vector/Monobook).
Click to enlarge preview. Reverting using popups- hover over history item and select revert. Installation You must have a user account to install and use the Navigation popups feature. Automatic installation Go to My Preferences / Gadgets. Manual installation Alternatively if you wish to add this to a specific skin rather than a file that works for all skins (as above), then // [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js'); Installation on remote MediaWiki installations Notes.
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People have recognized the community has been facing issues of quality and growth, but it has never been as stark as it is here. What could explain this? Is it governance issues? Is a “tragedy of the commons” affecting Wikipedia? Is it the natural consequence of a nearly complete project? Increasingly, Wikipedia admins today find themselves fending off the tacking on of often pointless “Trivia” sections to every article. Perhaps the only virgin areas for Wikipedia are ones related to “newsmakers” or sudden celebrity. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Small pieces unjoined. « Undiggnified | Main | Innovate strongly but narrowly » September 08, 2006 There have been some interesting comments on my post about the divide between deletionist and inclusionist wikipedians. I suggested that the split is a manifestation of the deeper divide between absolutists and relativists. Morgan Goeller sees it as a replay of "the battle between coherentism and foundationalism.
" Dermot Casey says it's "another round in the battle between the Big Endians and the Little Endians. " Kevin Kelly writes, "This grand dichotomy also resembles the ancient and huge gulf between 'lumpers' and 'splitters' in the biological taxonomic world (and somewhat in the library classification world). The lumpers tend to want to shoehorn a new-found organism (or subjects) into the existing categories (too many categories become a junkyard), while splitters tend to want to fork categories and create new species or subjects (to increase distinction and precision). " I think that's going too far. Bye, Oliver.