Wenn wir solche Meldungen bekommen, wie ich heute bereits zum X-Mal, dann
sind vielleicht auch die Wahlen in Amerika, die dazu mit beitragen ( ...
dass die Kollegen in Bochum davon noch nichts mitbekommen haben? Jedenfalls
kann da auf die Wikipedia in der Zukunft noch Einiges kommen! Gruß Ilja):
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Wiki wars
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=10909&hed=Wiki%20wars
Think this year's presidential debates have been rough? Check out Wikipedia.
October 14, 2004
Wikis, touted as the next big thing in online content, have become the
latest battleground in the presidential election as users of online
encyclopedia Wikipedia, the best-known wiki, squabble over entries related
to President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry, the junior
senator from Massachusetts.
Disputes over content related to Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry have been growing
since August, prompting the popular reference sites administrators to warn
users last month that election-related entries may be the focus of
contention and debate possibly diminishing their neutrality.
Wikis like Wikipedia are web sites that encourage users to share information
by allowing them to freely write and edit content.
Wikipedia community members held an online town hall meeting last month to
try to solve the disputes over the entries, to no avail. Meanwhile,
Wikipedias administrators are periodically freezing contentious pages
locking out any edits for brief periods of time. Since May, Wikipedias Mr.
Kerry entry has been frozen at least seven times, while its Mr. Bush page
has been locked down almost as often.
Bigger than Jesus
Indeed, entries for Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry have become the most contentious
in the history of Wikipedia, said Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, president
of the Wikipedia Foundation, which is based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Mr.
Bush and Mr. Kerry have created even more debate than entries for sex and
religion. As of October 8, Wikipedias President Bush entry had been tweaked
3,953 times. Its entry for Senator Kerry had been modified 3,230 times. By
contrast, Wikipedias article on Jesus has only been edited 1,855 times
since the sites inception in 2001.
George Bush is no question a controversial president, said Mr. Wales. But
hes also the only president weve had since the Wikipedia began. A click
on a link from Wikipedias entry for Mr. Bush reveals users debating topics
such as the presidents college grade point average, allegations of cocaine
abuse, and Michael Moores anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.
The stakes in these online disputes are high. Wikipedia has become a popular
online reference for students, academics, and even journalists. Its articles
can be among the first results returned by search sites such as Yahoo! and
Google. New search site
Clusty.com, launched earlier this month, even
features an encyclopedia page dedicated to helping users comb through the
free encyclopedias content.
Disputes could make wikis stronger
As Wikipedia has become more important, critics have attacked the
reliability of Wikipedias system. Some users have even deliberately
inserted errors into Wikipedia entries to test how quickly users can detect
and remove them. The results have been mixed, with some finding their errors
are fixed quickly, and others finding erroneous changes made to less popular
entries persisting for longer periods of time.
Members of the Wikipedia community have proposed several fixes. Wikipedias
Mr. Wales has said that next year he will begin using editors to review the
web sites content for accuracy and allow users to rate contributions to the
encyclopedia for their quality. Its complex because its a social
community, and feelings can be hurt, said Mr. Wales, but he added that the
change will be critical when Wikipedia content is put on more permanent
media, such as CD-ROM disks.
Fans argue that Wikipedias open system taps into the collective wisdom of
large groups of people to root out error and minimize bias. While anyone can
make a change to any entry, the discussions around those changes are open,
said Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor at New York Universitys Interactive
Telecommunications Program in New York City. Its like the security of
sidewalks, said Mr. Shirky. If everyone shares a little the sidewalk is
safe.
Indeed, the tussling at Wikipedia doesnt faze those who hope to take wiki
technology corporate. Joe Kraus, CEO of Jotspot, a Palo Alto, California,
company trying to commercialize wikis, said that the true brilliance of
Wikipedia and wikis in general is that [they] allow people to edit pages and
allow them to add perspective.
By that measure, at least, you could count the Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry
entries as Wikipedias most successful.
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