Who's behind Wikipedia?
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| Over the past seven years it has grown to include over 250 language editions
| with more than eight million articles, almost a quarter of which are in
| English. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia is the world's
| largest ever encyclopedia. Thanks to the GNU Free Documentation License that
| covers all Wikipedia content, it is also the most open and free. But just who
| is behind Wikipedia, and how does it work? Computerworld recently spoke to
| Brianna Laugher, a Wikipedia editor and 2008 linux.conf.au presenter of
| the 'Who's behind Wikipedia?' talk. Laugher was also a speaker at the 2007
| international Wikimedia conference, Wikimania.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1866322157;pp;1;fp;4;fpid;1968336438
Other unusual uses for the 'open source' approach:
Where open source is most vital
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| Plumbing.
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| Open source is most vital in the plumbing of enterprise systems, moving data
| back-and-forth, transforming it between formats.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1981
Related:
Wikipedia: No Place for PR
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| Anyone assigned to manage a product or person's image is advised to tread
| cautiously in this open source world. In January 2007, Microsoft was ordered
| off Wikipedia when it was discovered that the company had paid a blogger to
| tweak an entry for Microsoft Office Open XML format.
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| As a form of punishment, Wikipedia published part of an e-mail from a
| Microsoft employee to the Australian blogger, asking him to edit the article.
| Policing the pages gets more complicated. What if it's not a company or a PR
| agency? It depends on the bias of the editing.
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| Bias on Wikipedia is not tolerated. Last year, the site banned for one week
| edits coming from the IP addresses belonging to U.S. congressional staffers
| when it was revealed that some had been editing and censoring articles about
| elected officials. In the old days, governments used to ban the publication
| of literature. In the Web 2.0 world, publishers are banning -- or at least
| censoring -- the government.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Wikipedia-No-Place-for-PR-60812.html
Edit by Microsoft Corp.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=3864532
Microsoft Hires Programmer to edit Wikipedia Entry For OOXML
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79130/index.html
Microsoft Program Manager: Wikipedia is a Giant Joke
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| I am especially amused by all the bits in red font since they are
| either borderline libel or just straight up hilarious.
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http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=136975bc-b378-4408-bf7e-dbaa28fe21e6
Users insert virus source code into Wikipedia pages
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| In an exclusive report, Wikinews has learned that on Wednesday, January 16,
| 2008, two users, one anonymous and the other only known as MODX added code
| onto Wikipedia for a computer virus known as the LoveLetter virus or the
| ILOVEYOU virus.
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| The users were inserting the VBScript code on various pages on Wikipedia
| including the Wikipedia Sandbox, a page used for testing Wikicode without
| causing errors on other pages.Users insert virus source code into Wikipedia
| pages
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Users_insert_virus_source_code_into_Wikipedia_pages
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