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Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Photo: Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of the site contested the claim that 49,000 volunteer editors had left in the first three months of 2009 From The Daily Mail: Wikipedia's co-founder has called into question research which suggests thousands of volunteer editors across the world had left the site thereby undermining its usefulness. Jimmy Wales contested the claim that 49,000 volunteer editors had...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
I continue to be surprised that Wikipedia has never been on the receiving end of a Chutzpah of the Week award. I gave one to Jimmy Wales this past April; but that was not for anything specifically having to do with Wikipedia. Rather, it was for an outrageous act [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
JIMMY WALES is 43 years old, wears red-framed glasses, and is from Alabama. All this I glean, not from his Wikipedia page, but from a face-to-face conversation with the man himself. And as if to illustrate that all information sources should be questioned, not just erratic Wikipedia entries, he tells me that his birth date, August 7th, is not what is written on his passport, writesFIONA McCANN
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
After several days of press reports saying Wikipedia was loosing large amounts of editors, co-founder, Jimmy Wales, says his statistics don’t confirm the research of Felipe Ortega at Libresoft, a research group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. Mr. Wales told The Telegraph: “Our internal numbers don’t confirm all the claims made. We do agree [...]
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of the site contested the claim that 49,000 volunteer editors had left in the first three months of 2009.
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eWEEKeurope (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A study claims that Wikipedia's volunteer editors are deserting the site in their thousands, but founder Jimmy Wales contests the accuracy of the…
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
My latest Make: column, "Shortcut to Omniscience," talks about the cognitive shift that Wikipedians undergo in order to collaboratively write an encyclopedia, and how that kind of fundamental, subtle change enables networked groups of people to do things that were previously considered impossible. Here's the thing about expertise: it's hard to define. It may be possible for a small group...
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taz blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Fears over future of Wikipedia as 49,000 volunteers leave site The free internet encyclopedia is one of the world's most popular websites and uses volunteers to create pages and check facts Fears are rising that the usefulness of Wikipedia could be undermined as thousands of volunteer researchers abandon the site. The free internet encyclopedia is one of the world's most popular websites and uses volunteers...
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SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The openness of internet phenomenon Wikipedia will lead to better knowledge, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says, and adds that his proudest moment was seeing the open-source built encyclopaedia become available in 175 languages.
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Lifehacker Australia (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Drawing on the enthusiasm of crowds is critical to the success of open source projects. However, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales — no stranger to the virtues of collaborative enterprises — reminds us that there are limits to how far this can be taken. (more…)
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Wikipedia is losing thousands of editors each month, the Wall Street Journal reports . Why? The most popular topics have been written, making it less engaging. Also, Wikipedia has added more stringent rules for the editing process, making it harder for new editors. Wikipedia is recruiting new editors, but says stemming the exodus isn't a big concern. There is no "right" number of editors...
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Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' top priority is improving the accuracy of Wikipedia's articles while thousands of online volunteers are quitting, reports the Wall Street Journal. Hopefully, for online users like me, Wikipedia looks too big to fail. It has more...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Wikipedia founder creates on-line source of help for Tampa Bay’s homeless Between stops in his globe-trotting life as an Internet mogul, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came to Ybor City Friday to launch a new Web site that offers a wide range of resources for the homeless in the Tampa Bay area. The new site, tampabayhomeless.wikia.com, was introduced [...]
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Daniel Bachhuber (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
From Steve Myers’ interview with Jimmy Wales, published yesterday: People do often come to Wikipedia when major news is breaking. This is not our primary intention, but of course it happens. The reason that it happens is that the traditional news organizations are not doing a good job of filling people in on background information. People [...]
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Poynter Online "To the media 'more accountability' always means "restricted editing,'" says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales . "That's not true. Openness is not the enemy of quality. ...There is no move to restrict editing on Wikipedia pages of living people."
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