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What the MSM Gets Wrong About Wikipedia -- and Why
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| I believe that the underlying facts about the Wikipedia
| phenomenon -- that the general public is actually
| intelligent, interested in sharing knowledge,
| interested in getting the facts straight -- are so
| shocking to most old media people that it is literally
| impossible for them to report on Wikipedia without
| following a storyline that goes something like this:
| "Yeah, this was a crazy thing that worked for awhile,
| but eventually they will see the light and realize that
| top-down control is the only thing that works."
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| Will the new, more gentle tool, be more widely used
| than protection was? I certainly hope so. We are always
| looking for ways to help responsible people join the
| Wikipedia movement and contribute constructively, while
| gently asking those who want to cause trouble to please
| go somewhere else.
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| Faced with the choice of preventing you from editing at
| all, versus allowing you to edit even though you might
| have bad intentions, we have erred consistently for the
| latter -- openness. The new tool, by making it a lot
| easier to keep bad stuff from appearing to the general
| public, is going to allow for a much more responsible
| Wikipedia that is, at the same time, a much more open
| Wikipedia.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jimmy-wales/what-the-msm-gets-wrong-a_b_292809.html
Recent:
Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text
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| Starting this fall, youâll have a new reason to trust the information you
| find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called âWikiTrustâ will color code
| every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the
| length of time it has persisted on the page.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/wikitrust/
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