Links #4

List of links to articles, webpages, blogs, etc. concerning Wikipedia directly or indirectly

“Anonymity was a habit, not a guarantee”, interesting article about rethinking anonymity.

News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments

Also on anonymity:

Wikipedia and the Matter of Accountability

Interesting for someone analyzing conflict/controversy:

Wikipedia: Israelis, Notorious for Sexual Exploitation of Children, Traffic Haitian Organs.

Cpedia: A very different encyclopedic project.
Cpedia

NSFW: Jimmy Wales Wants Me Dead (The Neutrality Of This Article Is Disputed) [got to love the title!]

Multimedia Wikipedia: Can Video Be Collaborative?

Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, Wikia, Traditional Media

Jimmy Wales: Newspapers wasting money on expensive columnists.

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

By nathanieltkacz, May 10, 2011

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds) About the book: For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point [...]

‘Good luck with your WikiPAIDia’: Reflections on the 2002 Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia

By nathanieltkacz, January 15, 2011

Interview between Edgar Enyedy and Nathaniel Tkacz, January 2011 In early 2002, Wikipedia had little more than 20,000 total articles. The project was still overseen by Larry Sanger. It wasn’t yet clear that Wikipedia’s ancestor and first effort by Jimmy Wales and Sanger to create a free online encyclopaedia, Nupedia, would soon be irrelevant. There [...]

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

‘Good luck with your WikiPAIDia’: Reflections on the 2002 Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia

Full report CPOV