Why Wikipedia Articles Vary So Much In Quality - Slashdot
Hugh Pickens writes "A new study shows that the patterns of collaboration among Wikipedia contributors directly affect the quality of an article. 'These collaboration patterns either help increase quality or are detrimental to data quality,' says Sudha Ram at the University of Arizona. Wikipedia has an internal quality rating system for entries, with featured articles at the top, followed by A, B,
Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People (Published 2009)
Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably improve, the content. Now, as the English-language version of Wikipedia has just surpassed three million articles, that freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed. Officials a
Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for Photos (Published 2009)
Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for Photos Some may wonder: Could there be a bad picture of Halle Berry or George Clooney? Just visit Wikipedia. There you’ll find a fuzzy shot of Ms. Berry from the mid-1980s, when she was part of a U.S.O. tour with other Miss USA contestants. She is out of focus and wearing a red-and-white baseball cap � in short, she is barely recognizable. Mr
Keeping News of David Rohde’s Kidnapping Off Wikipedia - NYTimes.com
David Rohde of The New York Times in the Helmand region of Afghanistan in 2007.Credit...Tomas Munita for The New York Times For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of its reporters, David Rohde, had been kidnapped by the Taliban. But that was pretty straightforward compared with keeping it off Wikipedia. Times executives believed that publicity would
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Wikipedia Co-Founder Calls for Major New Moderation Policy
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Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 is upon us, and alongside a brand-new Battle Pass and new bosses to battle we also have a plethora of new Weekly Quests to contend with. Now you know we love a Fortnite leaker here on ReadWriteGaming so we appreciate iFireMonkey’s efforts in leaking all the Weekly Quests for the…
Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded
Disagreeable and closed to new ideas – that’s the picture that emerges of contributors to community-curated encyclopaedia Wikipedia from a survey of their psychological attributes. Led by Yair Amichai-Hamburger of the Sammy Ofer School of Communication in Herzliya, Israel, a team of psychologists surveyed 69 Israeli contributors to the popular online encyclopedia, comparing them with a sample of 7
Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @05:26PM from the kooks-we-have-always-with-us dept. ocean_soul writes "It is well known among scientists that the impact factor of a scientific journal is not always a good indicator of the quality of the papers in the journal. An extreme example of this was recently uncovered in mathematics. The scandal is about one El Naschie, editor in chief of th
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Microsoft has detailed an update on the ongoing cyber attack it has been subjected to from suspected Russian state-sponsored hackers. Using information obtained during a hit last year, the group known as Midnight Blizzard has targeted Microsoft’s internal systems, the tech giant said in an official blog post. The company has also shared the latest…
Wikipedia as Vital Breaking News Source – Center for Citizen Media
Take a look at today’s Wikipedia entry on today’s Mumbai terrorist attacks — a comprehensive and valuable addition to the breaking news we’re getting from TV and other sources. There are two fundamental elements to note: the rapid updating and the long list of links at the bottom. No, we can’t fully trust what we see here, because Wikipedia is susceptible to tampering. And yes, it relies on tradit
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