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A survey of some of Wikipedia's most successful hoaxes and frauds, and the degree to which they have propagated over the web.
For many, the concept of the “data revolution” conjures up images of online transactions, genomic medical data, and ubiquitous sensor networks. But [...]
I jokingly edited an author's page five and a half years ago. Today, it's still there, and cited by numerous well-respected sources.
Excellent history of Wikipedia's iffy efforts to become less white-male-Western.
If you’re interested in adding a Wikipedia assignment to your course, please visit teach.wikiedu.org for how to do so. There, you’ll find step-by-step guidance for teaching with Wikiped…
Ever since the National Archives and Record Administration launched the Open Government Plan in 2010, it has increasingly been uploading content to Wikipedia to digitize and gain a wider reach for its holdings. But all this time, uploading its digitized holdings to the Wikimedia Commons was a side project. Now, as mentioned in the 2014 Open Government Plan published earlier this month, the project is a core part of the NARA.
If an “American Idol” also-ran can have his own page on the online encyclopedia, is there no limit? Apparently there is, as some people find out the hard way.
Aaron Halfaker is a socio-technologist. He studies the intersection of mass collaboration and the technology that supports it.
Useful cautionary tale about crowdsourcing. Who your crowd is matters!
And it's just the "tip of the iceberg," according to one editor.
Wikipedia is virtually uncontested as an instrumental conduit for global knowledge exchange. But who is creating and maintaining this knowledge and does it adequately reflect the diversity of exper…