Larry Sanger is beginning to sound more and more desperate. The growing, but largely irrelevant Citizendium project is still too top-heavy with administrative overhead and will continue to be an also-ran to any discussion around human stores of knowledge.
However, this is not stopping the continued declaration of quality-over-quantity.
Some people might be a little puzzled [...]
Also tagged citizendium, goodenough, larrysanger, PowerOfManyLarry Sanger has been given a bigger stage. Edge has published his latest essay entitled “Who Says We Know: On the New Politics of Knowledge“. In it he argues against “dabblerism” - a word he made up to help him define his opponents’ position of anti-credentialism. Sanger is a credentialist. He [...]
Also tagged PowerOfMany, sanger, transparencyI wrote to Evan Prodromou yesterday - after staring at the MediaWiki code for about an hour trying to figure out how to write an extension. Needless to say, it was one of the most productive emails I’ve ever written since within about 8 minutes (give or take a night’s sleep), a MicroID extension [...]
Also tagged claimID, extension, mediawiki, MicroIDThe german flavor of the OneTrueWiki will be getting an update soon. Nate Anderson writes at ArsTechnica:
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told CNET in an interview that the Germans are coming—and they have a plan to save Wikipedia. The German-language version of Wikipedia will get an experimental overhaul in the next few weeks designed to [...]
An excellent post - I can’t seem to add anything to it. Well done Nathan.
Third, you have to participate in the online conversation. If you don’t, the party will start without you and how many of the millions of people online do you think care about your reputation? That’s what I thought.
Nathan Schock at [...]
via Chris Anderson at The Long Tail via Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion:
Wikipedia has added RSS feeds to the 1.25 million entries in the encyclopedia. This means you can now more easily track the revision history for important articles, such as those about people, brands or corporations. Simply click on the history link at the [...]
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