Posts By: baswijers

Liang: De-Classify and Un-Authorize

By baswijers, March 29, 2010

Lawrence Liang is an Indian legal researcher and lawyer residing in Bagalore. With his speech he tries to place current debates into a historical context. There are a variety of controversies which he tries to place in perspective. Throughout the latest years there have been different responses considering the rise of Wikipedia: Refutation: It is [...]

Grievink: A Real Challenge Would Be to Think of Wikimedia Commons As a Goal in Itself

By baswijers, March 29, 2010

The mission statement of the Wikimedia foundation says: “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s our commitment.” If we want to achieve this, Hendrik-Jan Grievink states, we have to take it literally: imagine a world in images. He holds a Master in Design [...]

Stuart Geiger: What is in Control of Wikipedia?

By baswijers, March 27, 2010

Triple the number of African elephants, so when they do get extinct we still have ourselves a wikiality. A jolly suggestion coming from Stephen Colbert which got embraced by Wikipedia critics. It was basically what happened on the encyclopedia: vandalization to make a point. But what really happened was the elephant page being protected. It [...]

Charles van den Heuvel: “There is no problem”

By baswijers, March 26, 2010

Charles van den Heuvel started to make clear that he is not a wikipedian himself. But he has been involved in various projects on annotation and visualization in history, web archiving for research and Web 2.0 in the Humanities. He worked for various Dutch universities, research institutes and has worked as librarian. Expressing his interests [...]