Wikipedia in the news: 14 April 2008
(As you may know, I write the “In the news” section for the Wikipedia Signpost. From this week onwards, I’ll be posting up the ITN section on my blog as well as having it published in the Signpost.)...
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High-school students study course on Wikipedia HSC students to get Wikipedia course – As of next year, the English curriculum for students sitting for the Higher School Certificate, which is taken in...
View ArticleWikipedia in the news: 2 June 2008
Wikis knocking on the iron gates of Oxford Andrew Keen on New Media – Recently, Internet commentator Andrew Keen was at Oxford University together with Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger to debate...
View ArticleWikipedia in the news: 9 June 2008
Naked short selling drama retold Wikipedia kills Greatest Show On Earth – “[T]here was an Wikinvestigation. And a Wikicourtcase. Like we said, Wikimadness.” Patrick Byrne has been waging a battle...
View ArticleWikipedia in the news: 30 June 2008
Jimbo writes about the freedom that Wikipedia brings The wisdom of crowds – Wikipedia’s founder writes about what he sees as the fruits of the change inspired by Wikipedia. Although humans can be...
View ArticleWikipedia in the news: 2 September 2008
Wikimedia: maturing and professionalising Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit (24 August 2008, San Francisco Chronicle) Sue Gardner, Wikimedia’s executive director, expresses surprise at the...
View ArticleWikipedia in the news: 22 September 2008
Wikipedia: built on cooperation and collaboration Wikipedia depends on collaboration for success (18 September 2008, Daily Trojan) Professor Robert E. Kraut of Carnegie Mellon University discussed the...
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Reaping what you sow in the creative commons
I’ve contributed many of my photos to the Wikimedia Commons, and I’m pleased to see that some of them have spread beyond the Wikimedia world. But the fact that someone turned something mundane like...
View ArticleWhat is going on?
I got an email half an hour ago that said this: Dear Enochlau, We notice you haven’t edited Wikipedia for some time. Perhaps you grew disillusioned with the project after seeing the corruption and...
View ArticleAustralian constitutional law notes
Dan and I, back in third year, wrote up our Australian constitutional law case summaries as Wikipedia articles as we were studying them: click here for a list of case summaries. (We didn’t quite finish...
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