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Wikipedia: the gift that keeps on giving…
It seems that even television is not safe from Wikipedia spotters. A Syrian blog points to some smooth script re-purposing over at Al Jazeera English on their series A Question of Arab Unity. ALJAZ“Nasser and his fellow officers assured Britain that it would respect British citizens and property in Egypt, limiting the possibility of intervention…
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Seeing Wikipedia’s editorial struggles
A visual representation of the most hotly contested pages on Wikipedia from A Beautiful WWW. They have a new science visualization here.
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Essjay: who not to trust – The New Yorker or Wikipedia?
Back in July 2006, The New Yorker published an article by Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff called Know it all: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise. According to the piece: One regular on the site is a user known as Essjay, who holds a Ph.D. in theology and a degree in canon law and has written or…