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Link by Link - Don’t Like Palin’s Wikipedia Story? Change It

The daily page view totals for even well-known candidates are striking. For example, according to a site that tracks the traffic to Wikipedia, the John McCain article had 645,000 page views in June. That month, Barack Obama had 1.35 million page views. Henrik Abelsson, who tracks the traffic, said that on Friday there were 2.4 million page views for Gov. Palin's Wikipedia article.

Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks

Interesting ... The Washington Post reports on the findings of Cyveillance, a company that 'normally trawls the Internet for data on behalf of clients seeking open source information in advance of a corporate acquisition, an important executive hire, or brand awareness.' Cyveillance decided 'on a lark' to test its methods by monitoring the Wikipedia biographies of Vice-Presidential prospects. The conclusion? If you'd been watching Wikipedia you might have gotten an advance tipoff of Friday's announcement that McCain was selecting Sarah Palin. 'At approximately 5 p.m. ET (Thursday), the company's analysts noticed a spike in the editing traffic to Palin's Wiki page, and that some of the same Wiki users appeared to be making changes to McCain's page.

Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales

Former Wikipedia employee Danny Wool is alleging that Wales misused money from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that oversees the site.

New tool mines Wikipedia trustworthiness

Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.

The CIA, FBI and Wikipedia: the question of censorship

CIA and FBI computers edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on such hot topics as the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison. Which raises a number of important questions about Wikipedia s neutrality.

The word on Wikipedia: Trust but verify

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales presides over a burgeoning empire. Wikimedia, the site s host, has expanded into textbooks, republishable content, news, shared media and online project coordination. It all rests on Wikipedia s reputation as an always available, convenient and reliable repository of the world s knowledge.

Wikipedia To Check I.D.s

By allowing expert contributors to remain anonymous, Wikipedia s plan does seem to raise a question: might it be a good idea simply to abandon the tradition of screen names that has grown up with the Web, and start encouraging people to use their real names when they contribute to discussion or debate online?

Wikipedia fights off the Reality of the Colbert Report Popularity

Last night, Stephen Colbert mocked Microsoft for trying to pay writers to manipulate Wikipedia claiming that he is the rightful manipulator of Wikipedia. Then, he proceeded to suggest is audience define Reality as a commodity that can be bought and sold - via Wikipedia.

Microsoft in hot water for offer to pay for Wikipedia edits

The fact that Microsoft hired a technical writer/Wikipedia contributor in Australia - they were trying very hard to keep from being connected to him. You can't tell me there aren't plenty of quality technical writers in the U.S. This is just more of their payola strategy - like the free laptops given to bloggers.

Microsoft PR Paying to "Correct" Wikipedia

In fact, I suspect many corporations pay people to manage their Wikipedia profiles. This is just an extension of their PR work.

Wikipedia Qatar ban 'temporary'

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, wrote: "This IP number was temporarily blocked for less than 12 hours, and a block of an entire nation would go absolutely against Wikipedia policy."

Look Me Up Under 'Missing Link'

How Wikipedia deletes the unnotables.

Chinese Net users say China likely banned Wikipedia again - iht,asia,China Wikipedia - Asia - Pacifi

Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site after a yearlong ban they reported Friday that it was blocked again in several parts of China.

Web 2.0 smackdown: intellectuals vs. amateurs in Citizendium

Larry Singer, Wikipedia co-founder, is embarking on an ambitious and undoubtedly Web 2.0 politically-incorrect mission to shepherd the brain power of what he estimates is 3% of the Internet population: intellectuals or educated, thinking people who read about science or ideas regularly. Sanger is hoping to spearhead a high-brow spin-off of Wikipedia; Citizendium. Sanger is driven by a belief that we can and should do better than an "amateur" Wikipedia. He cites numerous serious and endemic problems afflicting Wikipedia and its community

MorePerfect invites political dialogue

Would-be James Madisons of the digital age can suggest changes to the Bill of Rights through a Seattle-based Web site called moreperfect.org, named for the Constitution's mission statement about forming "a more perfect Union."