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Student Uses Wikipedia to Test Media
When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.
His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.
[Read more from msnbc.com, Student hoaxes world's media on Wikipedia]
His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.
[Read more from msnbc.com, Student hoaxes world's media on Wikipedia]
Wikipedia Puts Another Competitor Out of Business
The first non-print reference source I ever owned was Encarta, Microsoft’s digital encyclopedia, launched in 1993 as a direct competitor to print powerhouses like Encyclopedia Britannica.
When I first purchased Encarta, it was a CD. It later moved to the web. The encyclopedia grew quickly in its first few years, as it offered images, sound, and internal links at a fraction of the cost of a multi-volume print encyclopedia.
Now, Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue Encarta on October 31.
According to TechCrunch:
Encarta's failed strategy of "opening" its pages to users to submit suggestions for articles reminds me of Britannica's recent attempt to become more responsive to its users, in order to compete with Wikipedia.
When I first purchased Encarta, it was a CD. It later moved to the web. The encyclopedia grew quickly in its first few years, as it offered images, sound, and internal links at a fraction of the cost of a multi-volume print encyclopedia.
Now, Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue Encarta on October 31.
According to TechCrunch:
“In the 2000s Encarta’s popularity died out, largely due to the incredible growth of Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopedia. Wikipedia is updated by a community of users from around the world, and is far more efficient than traditional encyclopedias and their online counterparts, which are edited in-house. In 2005 Encarta tried to take the middle ground by allowing users to submit suggestions for article updates, but these were not integrated into articles until they had been approved by Encarta editors.
For a full history of Encarta, be sure to check out its comprehensive Wikipedia entry, which has already been updated to reflect Encarta’s shutdown. Encarta’s entry on itself doesn’t mention anything about its demise, and actually seems to have less information than the Wikipedia article.”
Encarta's failed strategy of "opening" its pages to users to submit suggestions for articles reminds me of Britannica's recent attempt to become more responsive to its users, in order to compete with Wikipedia.
Wikipedia as an Internet Metropolis
In seven years, Wikipedia – the collaborative, online, free encyclopedia – has become one of the top 10 global websites. While it still has many fewer visitors than Google, Wikipedia’s 60 million visitors a month put it within striking distance of such Internet heavies as Amazon and eBay. Hundreds of thousands of people have thus far come together to collaborate.
With its 2.8 million English-language articles is Wikipedia close to being “complete?”
No, argues Noam Cohen in The New York Times. Cohen writes:
Read “Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City.”
With its 2.8 million English-language articles is Wikipedia close to being “complete?”
No, argues Noam Cohen in The New York Times. Cohen writes:
“Wikipedia can no more be completed than can New York City, which O. Henry predicted would be “a great place if they ever finish it.” In fact, with its millions of visitors and hundreds of thousands of volunteers, its ever-expanding total of articles and languages spoken, Wikipedia may be the closest thing to a metropolis yet seen online.”
Read “Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City.”
In the Battle for Number One, Wikipedia and Britannica Look A Little More Alike
In a move suggestive of its main online competitor Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica is inviting the public to edit, enhance and contribute to its online version, according to The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald [via slashdot.org].
Any changes made to the online content would be passed by the EB’s editors. The company has promised a 20-minute turnaround time on any changes. Many of the changes will eventually appear in the printed version of the encyclopedia, which is published every two years.
Britannica's president, Jorge Cauz, said the changes were the first in a series of enhancements to the britannica.com website designed to encourage more community input to the 241-year-old institution and, in doing so, to take on Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that Wikipedia may restrict the public’s ability to change entries.
Noam Cohen writes that the site has come under fire recently after vandals changed Wikipedia entries to erroneously report that Senators Edward Kennedy and Robert Byrd had died. This information appeared for five minutes before it was taken down.
In response, the site appears ready to introduce a system that prevents new and anonymous users from instantly publishing changes to the online encyclopedia.
Only registered, reliable users would have the right to have their material immediately appear to the general public visiting the site. Other contributors would be able to edit articles, but their changes will be held back until one of these reliable users has signed off of the revisions.
The system, used by German Wikipedia since May 2008, is slow. Although more than 95% of the article changes have been dealt with, it has sometimes taken as long as three weeks before revisions appear to all visitors.
According to Cohen: “The new system, would mark a significant change in the anything-goes, anyone-can-edit-at-any-time ethos of Wikipedia, which in eight years of existence has become one of the top 10 sites on the Web and the de facto information source for the Internet-using public.”
Any changes made to the online content would be passed by the EB’s editors. The company has promised a 20-minute turnaround time on any changes. Many of the changes will eventually appear in the printed version of the encyclopedia, which is published every two years.
Britannica's president, Jorge Cauz, said the changes were the first in a series of enhancements to the britannica.com website designed to encourage more community input to the 241-year-old institution and, in doing so, to take on Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that Wikipedia may restrict the public’s ability to change entries.
Noam Cohen writes that the site has come under fire recently after vandals changed Wikipedia entries to erroneously report that Senators Edward Kennedy and Robert Byrd had died. This information appeared for five minutes before it was taken down.
In response, the site appears ready to introduce a system that prevents new and anonymous users from instantly publishing changes to the online encyclopedia.
Only registered, reliable users would have the right to have their material immediately appear to the general public visiting the site. Other contributors would be able to edit articles, but their changes will be held back until one of these reliable users has signed off of the revisions.
The system, used by German Wikipedia since May 2008, is slow. Although more than 95% of the article changes have been dealt with, it has sometimes taken as long as three weeks before revisions appear to all visitors.
According to Cohen: “The new system, would mark a significant change in the anything-goes, anyone-can-edit-at-any-time ethos of Wikipedia, which in eight years of existence has become one of the top 10 sites on the Web and the de facto information source for the Internet-using public.”
Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, said the organization did not yet have a fixed timeline on when the new approval system would be adopted, as “implementing this functionality is really a volunteer community decision.”
