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Thursday, April 20, 2006

It's wikipedia week at PBS's Mediashift.

Anonymous said...: Try this link:

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/wikis/

The best one of these is the George W Bush one.

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/04/wikipedia_biasis_there_a_neutr.html

The "roundup" was a bit misleading but still left room for some decent comments:

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/04/your_take_roundupbelievers_neg.html

The e-mail conversation with Jimbo and a critic was chilling, albeit a little difficult to read:

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/04/email_debatewales_discusses_po.html

Talking about danah boyd and MySpace, and brushing Wikipedia's problems off as "growing pains" showed a severe lack of research:

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/04/digging_deepermyspace_wikipedi.html

And a lot of people missed this, due to bad filing, but this was what started the Wikipedia Week, from the week before:

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/04/your_takehow_much_do_you_trust.html; April 29, 2006 9:15 AM
Ben Yates said...: Cool, thanks.; May 01, 2006 12:59 AM
Ben Yates said...: I wish Cox would have provided links to his edits so we could actually evaluate them.; May 01, 2006 1:02 AM
Ben Yates said...: Ah -- I've looked it up. Cox deleted large portions of the article without any explanation. (The sections were immediately replaced, of course, and he got into a revert war and was (briefly) banned.); May 01, 2006 2:14 AM

Thursday, April 20, 2006