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Searching for Wikipedia Assistance on Craigslist
Here’s an interesting request for Wikipedia assistance on Craigslist, sent to me by a friend and former colleague from my hometown of Portland, Oregon — coincidentally, also the birthplace of the wiki...
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Did Rep. Hinojosa Get a Free Pass on Biased Wikipedia Edits?
This weekend, former Tacitus and RedState blogger Josh Treviño asked over Twitter: Do you think Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX-15) had his staff edit his own Wikipedia entry? So blatant: http://bit.ly/TSbMm...
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A Potential Supreme Court Nominee Probably Edited Her Own Wikipedia Article....
New York-based media blog Gawker is reporting that Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and potential nominee to the United States Supreme Court by President Obama, edited...
View ArticleThe Grande Guide to Wikipedia
In line with my cryptic tweet of yesterday afternoon (owing to an early scoop by The Next Web) here’s the big reveal: in the past few months I’ve been working with the marketing automation company...
View ArticleHow to Stop the Next Bell Pottinger
I’m somewhat late by now to one of the bigger Wikipedia-related stories to come along in recent months: the revelation of secretive Wikipedia edits by a London-based PR firm called Bell Pottinger. As...
View ArticleWiki-PR’s Case Study in Worst Practices and What Comes Next
This entry is cross-posted from a similar blog post on the (new) blog of Beutler Ink, a content marketing firm owned and operated by yours truly. As dedicated readers are aware, I’ve long been an...
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Wikipedia on the Brink?
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a writer for a big magazine, asking for my take on the much-discussed MIT Technology Review article “The Decline of Wikipeda” by Tom Simonite. As far as I’ve seen, no...
View ArticleBats in the Belfer: A Beginner’s Guide to the Biggest Wikipedia Controversy...
If you follow Wikipedia a bit more than casually, you might have heard something lately about nefarious goings on about the Wikimedia Foundation, a charitable trust called the Stanton Foundation, and...
View ArticleReflections on WikiConference USA
This past weekend I attended WikiConference USA at the New York Law School in—you guessed it—New York City. Not counting Wikimania 2012 in DC or Wikimania 2006 in Cambridge, this was somehow the first...
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The Top 10 Wikipedia Stories of 2014
Every twelve months the Gregorian calendar resets itself, and I pull together a roundup of the most important events, happenings and newsworthy items that marked the previous year on Wikipedia. I’ve...
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A Note on Wikimania 2016, and a Small Request
View from the road to Esino Lario. (Ed Erhart, CC-BY-SA-4.0) At this very moment, Wikimedians are traveling from all over the world to attend Wikimania, the annual conference for Wikipedia and its...
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Searching for Wikipedia Assistance on Craigslist
Here’s an interesting request for Wikipedia assistance on Craigslist, sent to me by a friend and former colleague from my hometown of Portland, Oregon — coincidentally, also the birthplace of the wiki...
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Did Rep. Hinojosa Get a Free Pass on Biased Wikipedia Edits?
This weekend, former Tacitus and RedState blogger Josh Treviño asked over Twitter: Do you think Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX-15) had his staff edit his own Wikipedia entry? So blatant: http://bit.ly/TSbMm...
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A Potential Supreme Court Nominee Probably Edited Her Own Wikipedia Article....
New York-based media blog Gawker is reporting that Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and potential nominee to the United States Supreme Court by President Obama, edited...
View ArticleThe Grande Guide to Wikipedia
In line with my cryptic tweet of yesterday afternoon (owing to an early scoop by The Next Web) here’s the big reveal: in the past few months I’ve been working with the marketing automation company...
View ArticleHow to Stop the Next Bell Pottinger
I’m somewhat late by now to one of the bigger Wikipedia-related stories to come along in recent months: the revelation of secretive Wikipedia edits by a London-based PR firm called Bell Pottinger. As...
View ArticleWiki-PR’s Case Study in Worst Practices and What Comes Next
This entry is cross-posted from a similar blog post on the (new) blog of Beutler Ink, a content marketing firm owned and operated by yours truly. As dedicated readers are aware, I’ve long been an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wikipedia on the Brink?
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a writer for a big magazine, asking for my take on the much-discussed MIT Technology Review article “The Decline of Wikipeda” by Tom Simonite. As far as I’ve seen, no...
View ArticleBats in the Belfer: A Beginner’s Guide to the Biggest Wikipedia Controversy...
If you follow Wikipedia a bit more than casually, you might have heard something lately about nefarious goings on about the Wikimedia Foundation, a charitable trust called the Stanton Foundation, and...
View ArticleReflections on WikiConference USA
This past weekend I attended WikiConference USA at the New York Law School in—you guessed it—New York City. Not counting Wikimania 2012 in DC or Wikimania 2006 in Cambridge, this was somehow the first...
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