Monopolization of community-based information networks by cartels of a few “super editors” among several risks that could lead to a diminished Wikipedia Wikipedia’s quality benefits from high levels of free participation, but volunteer information databases like Wikipedia can be negatively effected by tendencies toward information monopolization, and, according to a recent study, this negative effect is … Read more
The government, which enforces strict censorship of media, has decided it needs its own online encyclopedia. Wikipedia, like many other popular free information sources on the internet, is blocked in China. China’s encyclopedia will not be like Wikipedia, though. It will not allow public edits, and its editors will be hand-picked by the government. The … Read more
Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales is creating Wikitribune, a news version of Wikipedia where he hopes news will be more fact-based than what he sees elsewhere. He will be hiring many journalists for the initial phase, and see how things develop from there. Wikitribune will not focus on doing original journalism. It will use the same … Read more
A formal judgement has approved the administrative measure, indicating that a permanent restriction is now in place for all language editions of the online encyclopedia in Turkey. Some are pointing towards Wikipedia’s depiction of Erdogan as a dictator as a cause: “Erdoğan detractors have noted that under Erdoğan, more journalists have been incarcerated in Turkey … Read more