How Well Do You Wiki?
On the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia, we're looking at how useful the user-generated encyclopedia is by giving you a quiz about public radio. Answer the following questions as best you can using...
View ArticleWho Writes Wikipedia?
The collaborative online encyclopedia site, Wikipedia, celebrates its 10-year anniversary on Saturday. It’s the largest encyclopedia ever made, with three and a half million articles in English alone...
View ArticleA Positive Spin on SOPA and PIPA
Wednesday sites like Wikipedia and Reddit pulled the plug for 24 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), acts that threaten the existence of such sites. SOPA is up...
View ArticleA World Without Wikipedia
The anti piracy laws being considered in the U.S. have produced worldwide internet turmoil. Perhaps you are already aware that the giant Wikipedia website in English is down not because of some...
View ArticleJohn Hockenberry Reports from London: Encyclopedia Britannica to Stop Print...
After 244 years, the oldest continually published encyclopedia in the English language, the Encyclopedia Britannica, is going out of print. The encyclopedia will now be focused on its online edition...
View ArticleMed Students Earn Credit For Editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a site that generally doesn't sit well in the world of academia.But in a new effort pursued at the University of California at San Francisco, medical students will be able to get course...
View ArticleOpinion: Online Piracy Bill Threatens Innovation, Web Freedom
For years, media industry groups have been trying to push through legislation that stops online piracy. Whether you're someone who uses file-sharing or streaming sites or not, most people recognize...
View ArticleThe Professor Versus Wikipedia
Professor Timothy Messer-Kruse has devoted the last ten years of his life to one topic -- the 1886 Haymarket Riot. But when Messer-Kruse tried to correct a wrong fact about the event, he ran afoul of...
View ArticleWomen Are Not Men
In many ways, the gender gap is closing. In others, not so much. And that's not always a bad thing.
View ArticleTeens Share More Online, But Also Know the Risks
Teens are sharing more photos and personal information on social media, but they are also taking calculated steps to manage their online reputations, according to "Teens, Social Media, and Privacy," a...
View ArticleWomen Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)
In many ways, the gender gap is closing. In others, not so much. And that's not always a bad thing.
View ArticlePeople Who Get Paid To Edit Wikipedia Articles Now Have to Admit It
The Wikimedia Foundation announced a rule change this week. Anyone who’s been paid to edit a wikipedia page (public relations firms, for instance) is now required to disclose that on the site.Founder...
View ArticleYou Can Watch The Private Sector Edit Wikipedia Too
Earlier this month I wrote about CongressEdits, one of a number of Twitter bots that track and tweet links to Wikipedia edits made from IP addresses within national legislatures. They’ve continued to...
View ArticleCongress Keeps Getting Banned From Wikipedia
It seems that Wikipedia has a congressional problem. For the third time this summer, the House has been blocked from editing Wikipedia articles.This particular ban stems from an edit on the article for...
View ArticleWikipedia Had A Small Edit War Over Hello Kitty
(see update below)A couple of days ago the L.A. Times shook the world when it reported that Hello Kitty, the ubiquitous Sanrio character who looks like a cat, is not, in fact, a cat. Anthropologist and...
View ArticleDown the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole: The Game!
Finally, something that can pull you out of the Wikipedia rabbit hole you've been lost to: a board game about Wikipedia rabbit holes! Linknotize is a new game in the spirit of Six Degrees of Kevin...
View ArticleDown the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole: The Game: The Solutions!
Yesterday, we told you about a new game called Linknotize, a board game about linking Wikipedia entries, and then played our own version -- with some of the best Wikipedia entries in existence. A few...
View ArticleConfession and Suppression
Last week, suspected murderer Robert Durst was arrested the day before an HBO film aired his apparent confession. On the Media examines the line between making great documentary and staying on the...
View ArticleThe Surveillance Stream
You've probably heard of Prism, the NSA's program to collect metadata like IP addresses and phone numbers. But a new lawsuit against the NSA from the Wikimedia Foundation and other media and...
View ArticleWikipedia's Jimmy Wales Vs. NSA
Jimmy Wales is co-founder of Wikipedia and board member of the Wikimedia Foundation, which is a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed earlier this month, along with eight other organizations, claiming that the...
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