Tag: wikipedia

Wikipedia decline

the encyclopedia that anyone can edit on the condition that said person meets the requirements laid out in Wikipedia Code 234.56, subsections A34-A58, A65, B7 (codicil 5674), and follows the procedures specified in Wikipedia Statutes 31 – 1007 as well as Secret Wikipedia Scroll SC72 (Wikipedia Decoder Ring required).”

2007-10-10:

There’s a war going on behind the pages of Wikipedia. Submission of new articles is slowing to a trickle where in previous years it was flood, and the discussion pages are increasingly filled with arguments and cryptic references to policy documents. The rise of the deletionists is threatening the hitherto peaceful growth of the world’s most popular information source.

the philosophical split of our times, deletionists vs inclusionists

Wikipedia disambiguation

In addition to pages describing different entities where contextual clues can be extracted (example), Wikipedia contains redirects for different surface forms of the same entity, list pages that categorize names, and disambiguation pages that show many of the different entities for a surface form. Wikipedia contains much more than unstructured text. Exploiting the semi-structured data — the redirect, list, and disambiguation pages — gives this work its power.

wikipedia for entity extraction. awesome what crowdsourcing can do.

Predictive vandalism

A Wikipedia vandal inadvertently set off a nationwide conspiracy craze when he edited the entry for Chris Benoit, a pro wrestler who murdered his family. The anonymous vandal coincidentally edited Benoit’s entry to say that Benoit had murdered his family several hours before the news became public, sparking speculation that the murder had been some kind of setup. Now the vandal has confessed, saying that he’d put the murder accusation in as an unfortunately timed joke

wikipedia is definitely mainstream now

Wikipedia geo microformat

all Wikipedia pages that are based on this template do from now on contain geo. What’s the benefit of all this? You might, for example, use the Operator or Webcards Firefox extensions to find a place in Google Maps or Yahoo! Maps with a single click. Other applications may parse a Wikipedia article and process the metadata in other ways.

one day they will have better geo visualization on the site, directly.

Wikipedia HBS Case

Andrew McAfee and Karim Lakhani created the first Harvard Business School case on Wikipedia which is available for free online and published under the GFDL. The case explains Wikipedia mechanics and the story of the Enterprise 2.0 article for deletion debate. I guess we now have peer reviewed evidence that not only does Enterprise 2.0 exist, but Wikipedia exists.

oy. the “wiki consultants” can’t be far now.