Tom Morris - Hari-gate: behind the scenes at Wikipedia. I was asked by David Allen Green, the writer behind the Jack of Kent blog, to write about the situation with Johann Hari who recently apologised for various acts of journalistic malpractice including substituting interview copy with background material, and editing articles on Wikipedia using at least one pseudonymous account ( User:David r from meth productions - hereafter ‘David r’). I was going to write various things about it when the story originally broke.
I originally had some doubts about some of the evidence that was presented linking accounts on two different wikis with an IP address, but further evidence turned up to show that there indeed was a link. Instead, I thought I’d give a more general introduction as to how the Wikipedia administrative system works in cases like this. I should first make a disclaimer: I’m just interested in showing the issues as they relate to Wikipedia policies, rather than making a political point about Hari or whatnot. David r was in July.
Google. MIT OpenCourseWare. Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. Citation: Logan DW, Sandal M, Gardner PP, Manske M, Bateman A (2010) Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. PLoS Comput Biol 6(9): e1000941. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941 Published: September 30, 2010 Copyright: © 2010 Logan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this article. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Wikipedia is the world's most successful online encyclopedia, now containing over 3.3 million English language articles. For better or worse, people are guided to Wikipedia when searching the Web for biomedical information [2]. Rule 1: Register an Account Although any visitor can edit Wikipedia, creating a user account offers a number of benefits. Rule 2: Learn the Five Pillars. Map of who owns the Arctic. Do you know who owns the Arctic? As it turns out, it's a pretty messy subject: In August 2007 Russian scientists sent a submarine to the Arctic Ocean seabed at 90° North to gather data in support of Russia's claim that the North Pole is part of the Russian continental shelf.
The expedition provoked a hostile reaction from other Arctic littoral states and prompted media speculation that Russia's action might trigger a "new Cold War" over the resources of the Arctic. Luckily things are at least a little more in control now though. Well, sort of. Canada, Denmark and the US still need to define their continental shelf limits.
The International Boundaries Research Unit provides this map [pdf] of claimed boundaries and areas that will potentially be claimed in the future. [via] Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload, ca.1550-1700. New Spice | Study like a scholar, scholar. Max Planck Society - Max-Planck-Portal - website of the Max Planck Society - basic and fundamental scientific research.
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