This was to be expected …. secret mailing lists for administrators …. Even the reasons sound familiar: “Due to the nature of this investigation, our normal open discussion isn’t really feasible,” she said. “Please take to arbitration if you disagree with this decision.” Recently, in another effort to quash “harassment,” several members of the Wikipedia […]
Wikicharts! The Top 20 articles: 28 788 286 ± 0% 3.7225% 1. Main Page 862 857 ± 2% 0.1116% 2. Wiki 394 571 ± 3% 0.0510% 3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 384 286 ± 3% 0.0497% 4. Naruto 378 286 ± 3% 0.0489% 5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 315 714 ± […]
Näkyypi ilmestyneen tuo Tieteessä tapahtuu, jossa on miniteema “Wikipedia – monta näkökulmaa avoimeen tietosanakirjaan” kirjoittajina Bo-Christer Björk, Mikko Välimäki, Joonas Lyytinen, Timo Jyrinki, Tere Vadén, Kari A. Hintikka, Juha Honkala ja Teemu Mikkonen. Koko homma löytyy pdf’nnä täältä. Samassa numerossa on Keijo Paunion ja Risto Santin tyly juttu huippuyliopistohankkeesta. Yksi kohta menee näin: Mikäli esimerkiksi […]
Teemu Leinonen was kind enough to invite Juha and me to collaborate on an article on some ideas on the Wikiversity; the draft is here. Teemu also participated the Wikimania 2007, pictures and video on the site.
I have been irritating some of my friends by claiming that Wikipedia is “bigger” (more important, more beautiful) than the Internet. In the near future, the Internet will be vaguely remembered as something tahta had something to do with the early stages of the Wikipedia(s). Walking back from the MindTrek conference today, I finally came […]
… is what this algorhitm from UCSC Wiki Lab (what a magnificient entity!) does. It takes the edits of of an editor from the past 7 years and measures how long the edits have stayed unedited. The longer the better. So it is very similar to the “Puppy Smoothies” idea that suggested the measuring the […]
From Wired: Wikipedia Scanner — the brainchild of CalTech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses. An example can […]
Kun Linus Torvalds vuonna 1991 julkaisi “kumouksellisen†käyttöjärjestelmän idun keskustelupalstalle pyytäen porukkaa osallistumaan, syntyi nykyisin laajalti tunnettu vapaa Linux-käyttöjärjestelmä. Vastaavasti Jimmy Walesin ja Larry Sangerin perustaessa Wikipedian vuonna 2001, syntyi ensimmäinen vapaasti muokattava tietosanakirja. Mutta molemmat innovaatiot synnyttivät myös jotain yleisempää. Osiltaan ne edistivät ajatusta, jonka mukaan “informaatio haluaa olla vapaata†ja verkkosovellukset kuuluvat kaikille. […]
in “Puppy Smoothies” Tom Cross suggests that the reliability of a Wikipedia article could be improved by marking the age of the text by using different colours. The older the text, the darker, or something. This way content thats has passed the check of many users could be identified. A new idea is to colour […]
