Wikipedia

Wikiasari, an Open, Wiki-based Search Engine

Posted by Michael Zimmeron December 23, 2006in Search Engines1 Comment

The Times.uk reports that Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia wants to build and open, wiki-based web search engine to rival Google. The search engine will be called Wikiasari — a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and…

Sanger to Fork Wikipedia into Citizendium

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 17, 2006in Information Ethics, Internet

Larry Sanger, first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, announced yesterday his plans to fork the project into a competitor to Wikipedia called The Citizendium. Sanger describes it as "an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance." The…

Wikipedia Defies China’s Censors; Challenges Google

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 12, 2006in Information Ethics, Search Engines

Wikipedia has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries. Jimmy Wales also challenged other Internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with…

John Sexton’s Wikipedia Article

Posted by Michael Zimmeron March 2, 2006in Information Ethics, Internet

I was quoted in today's Washington Square News about recent edits to NYU President John Sexton's article on Wikipedia. Since the recent labor disupte with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, various additions were made to Sexton's page that, IMO, violated…

danah boyd on the Seigenthaler-Wikipedia Controversy

Posted by Michael Zimmeron December 23, 2005in Information Ethics, Internet

danah boyd has an excellent post on the recent Seigenthaler-Wikipedia controversy, focusing particularly on the academic community's response: What pissed me off more was how the academic community pointed to this case and went “See! See! Wikipedia is terrible! We…

Let Wikipedia Write Your Next Paper

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 5, 2005in Information Ethics, Internet

According to News.com, Esquire writer AJ Jacobs put a badly written and error ridden article on Wikipedia and let the Wikipedian community have at it. Within days, the article had received hundreds of edits, was cleaned up, proof read and…

Wikipedia and Search

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 19, 2005in Internet, Search Engines

John Battelle points to a piece (reg required) by Max Kalehoff noting the striking increase in traffic driven to Wikipedia from search engine queries.A ranking of all Web sites based on the total volume of traffic received directly from search…

Google and Wikipedia

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 15, 2005in Information Ethics, Internet, Search Engines

There's been a lot of talk lately about Google's offer to donate bandwidth and servers to Wikipedia. John Dvorak at PC Magazine provides helpful commentary, warning that the "nice guy" attitude of Google might not last forever:...let's say that Google…

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 11, 2005in Internet

I've been thinking about Wikipedia quite frequently lately, mainly due to a colleague who is crafting his dissertation around an investigation of the collaborative nature of decision making and consensus on what consistutes "knowledge" within the Wikipedia community. It will…