Can Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales save the news?
Squeezed by the BBC on one side and Wiktribune on the other, things could be about to get even tougher for many UK news outlets. … Read the full post »
Wikipedia
Here are all my posts featuring the crowd-sourced encyclopaedia Wikipedia, founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales. Since that first English-language edition, numerous other editions have been added.
Alex Salmond: my part in his downfall by Alan Cochrane
Journalist Alan Cochrane’s bombastic diaries cover the Scottish independence referendum, starting with the long run up from January 2012. … Read the full post »
Chuka Umunna: Wikipedia editing is the least of it
Whether or not it was Chuka Umunna himself who edited Wikipedia to add in a comparison between himself and Barack Obama… … Read the full post »
“Not the sort of thing I’d expect from a western democracy” – Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
This week Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales was one of the people giving evidence to the committee looking at the Draft Communications Data Bill. … Read the full post »
Wikipedia guidance for PR professionals
Out today is a very useful set of guidelines from the CIPR about how PR professionals should and shouldn’t use Wikipedia. … Read the full post »
The wonder of Wikipedia: Broccoli
Whilst preparing my post earlier this week on Michael Gove and broccoli, I happened across Wikipedia’s talk page on broccoli. … Read the full post »
Gender imbalance amongst contributors to Wikipedia
Surveys suggest that less than 15% of Wikipedia’s hundreds of thousands of contributors are women. … Read the full post »
Phishing ain’t that new: Samuel Pepys got there first
Samuel Pepys is not often associated with Nigerian internet scams, yet there is an uncanny echo of modern problems in his own forgery of 1661. … Read the full post »
Wikipedia: surprisingly old school web design
Having been using Wikipedia more than usual in the last few days, and even made a couple of minor edits (there’s now one less surplus space in the world, yay!)… … Read the full post »
When two hypes colide: Wikipedia and user-generated data
Is all right and rosy with Wikipedia or is it that record volumes of new data are being created? … Read the full post »