New Citizendium to correct Wikipedia's wrongs?
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Also: White House uploads anti-drug videos to YouTube. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Corrects attribution in paragraph one to "a top U.S. intelligence official" from "the top U.S. intelligence official."
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Also: Arthur C. Clarke's three wishes. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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PHPEverywhere has a new posting today concerning a few criteria of a "great developer".
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" goes online. Doing research becomes easier but community editing means the information may be less credible.
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Plus: Geneticist creates new life forms, legal problems. Read what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Also: Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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A picture caption last Thursday with an article about the Guest House, a Russian nightclub in Manhattan, misstated the name of the picturesâ source. They were supplied by PicNY.com/Russianradiony.com, not by Pic .NY.com/Russianradiony.com.
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Jimmy Wales invented Wikipedia, and he remains its reigning local deity. Despite that, Wikipedia actually happened because it was allowed to happen. Rather than specifying at the beginning what the rules would be, Wales let the community evolve its own rules, in response to real needs.
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Users of Wikipedia have described obvious mistakes in the design of the Web siteâs logo.
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Miguel de Icaza, in this weblog entry says, "Facts barely matter when they get in the way of a good smear. The comments over at Groklaw are interesting, in that they explore new levels of ignorance." This comment rings especially true of his weblog entry. For example, Miguel states... We have been working on OpenOffice.Org for longer than anyone else has. We were some of the earliest contributors to OpenOffice, and we are the largest external contributor to actual code to OpenOffice than anyone else. Say what?  Who created OpenOffice? Who bought it?  Who opened it?  Anyone ever hear of Star Division gmbh or Sun?  Since when did Novell become the earliest contributor to OpenOffice.org?  The earliest and largest external contributor, maybe.  I'd like to see some hard facts to back up an assertion like that (not that facts matter, as Miguel admitted), but his hyperbolic boasting of Novell's contribution is obviously overblown.
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Assignment Zero looks at "crowdsourced" media sites, which love to equate social editing with democracy. It's as raucous, messy and enthralling as the electoral process, and for proof look no further than the much-debated DVD hack posted at Digg.com.
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Don't like your Wikipedia entry? Mr. Know-It-All offers advice on how to set the record straight. By Clive Thompson from Wired magazine.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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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.
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The first public preview of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' new open-source search engine launched Monday. Even though the project is very young, it currently lacks many of the human-powered ranking and rating features that will enable it to emerge as a threat to current search leaders like Google.