Wikipedia founder speaks out on the Essjay brouhaha
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, said a controversy over the faked credentials of "essjay" -- an editor of the online encyclopedia's who faked his credentials -- likely means other editors will soon need to prove their own qualifications.
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Free software, free bandwidth, free storage, free computing power -- the only thing missing is a business plan. Not to worry, says Wikia founder Jimmy Wales, "the wisdom of our community will prevail." In Monkey Bites.
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Controversy erupts at internet site Wikipedia as one of its editors is found to have falsified academic credentials.
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BillâGatesâisâonâhisâwayâout.âNowâit's upâtoâRayâOzzieâtoâreviveâthe flaggingâgiant -- andâgetâitâreadyâfor theâpost-desktopâera. By Fred Vogelstein from Wired magazine.
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Move over, Jimbo - we're in the content biz now Whatever you think about the kooks at Wikipedia - the crazed Goths banning chunks of Utah, a COO prone to drunken rampages and embezzlement, and a Roi Soleil answering to himself - one thing is in no doubt. The project has saved Google's original business.â¦
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Far from the power-broking of Silicon Valley, the new boss of the Internet giant Wikipedia is a soft-spoken French mother of three, who runs the global success story from a home office in a village in central France.
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Communique released Last week Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger announced his intention to create a counterpart, giving it the clumsy name of Citizendium.â¦
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In just a few years, Wikipedia has become the most influential encyclopedia in the world
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Just came across Citizendium today which is taking advantage of the problems of spam and altered reality at Wikipedia by positioning itself as being more accurate &#038; accountable. The project, started by [Larry Sanger] a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding &#8220;gentle expert oversight&#8221; and requiring contributors to use their real [...]
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Shi Zhao slides the computer mouse,  making rapid-fire clicks and in the space of a minute or so  finds about a dozen minor errors to be tweaked on Wikipedia,  the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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Spirits expert launches a Wikipedia-inspired resource for scotch, bourbon, and all the other caramel-colored stuff that leaves your head aching.
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Bogus boy's departure puts trivia at risk Comment After pressure over the weekend from Wikipedia's Il Duce Jimmy Wales, the encyclopedia's most illustrious fake professor Ryan Jordan has resigned his post at Wikia Inc.â¦
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Even the crowned heads of Europe change Wikipedia entries.
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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Vivid imagination of al-Q 'web guru' revealed Younis Tsouli - irhabi007 - was earlier this month jailed for ten years. It's a good sentence for the cyber-jihad twit, someone who became fodder for television news shows like 60 Minutes. Wishing to show how al Qaeda was beating the pants off the good guys on the Internet, Tsouli was the perfect example for them, one of fearmongering at its finest.â¦
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Chinese Wikipedia users say the Web site highlights the resilience of an information control system whose reach goes beyond simple censorship.
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Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.