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Four short links: 11 August 2009

By Nat Torkington
August 10, 2009

The Slowing Growth of Wikipedia and More Details of Changing Editor Resistance -- researchers at PARC analysed Wikipedia and found the number of new articles and number of new editors have flattened off, and more edits from first-time contributors are being reverted. This is a writeup in their blog, with the numbers and charts. It's interesting that coverage in...

Freedom is for losers

By Rick Jelliffe
August 9, 2009

We have to make sure that our links to Wikipedia are not building in assertions or implications that the texts of Wikipedia, as distinct from the topics, are objectively correct or complete.

Wikipeadia Papers - How to improve Wikipedia and University Studies Quality

By Mark Finnern
July 15, 2009

How to bring Wikipedia up to the scientific standard that many in the Universities are claiming it is missing: The Wikipedia Paper. Every student that takes a class, no matter what topic, has to create or improve a Wikipedia page of the Topic of the class.

Patrick Collison Puts the Squeeze on Wikipedia

By James Turner
July 2, 2009

Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, that's just what Patrick Collison's iPhone application does. App Store purchasers of Collison's open source application can browser and search the full text of Wikipedia when stuck in a plane, or trapped in the middle of nowhere (or as defined by AT&T coverage...) Collison will be presenting a talk on how he did it at OSCON, O'Reilly's Open Source conference at the end of July, and he spent some time talking to me about it recently.

Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform

By Mark Drapeau
June 9, 2009

Perhaps the most common reason given for joining the microsharing site Twitter is "participating in the conversation" or some version of that. I myself am guilty of using this explanation. But is Twitter truly a conversational platform? Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the knowledge co-creation seen in wikis than the dynamics seen with...

Using hit rates from one database to audit the completeness of another

By Rick Jelliffe
May 26, 2009

The possibility of having objective measures to test the completeness of a topical database is intriguing,

Wikirank: A Zeitgeist for Wikipedia

By Brady Forrest
March 19, 2009

Wikipedia is one of the most significant sites on the web. It produces vast quantities of data and the Wikimedia foundation tries to make all of it available to the public. Wikipedia's traffic data can be an insight into what's interesting on the web. Wikirank, currently in closed beta, shares that information very cleanly. On its homepage Wikirank shows...

Wikipedia and Nature

By Nat Torkington
December 21, 2008

I love the RNA Biology journal's new guidelines for submissions, which state that you must submit a Wikipedia article on your research on RNA families before the journal will publish your scholarly article on it: This track will primarily publish articles describing either: (1) substantial updates and reviews of existing RNA families or (2) novel RNA families based on computational...

Network Effects in Data

By Tim O'Reilly
October 27, 2008

Nick Carr's difficulty in understanding my argument that cloud computing is likely to end up a low-margin business unless companies find some way to harness the network effects that are the heart of Web 2.0 made me realize that I use the term "network effects" somewhat differently, and not in the simplistic way many people understand it. Here's Nick: Let's...

TOC Recommended Reading

By Mac Slocum
July 9, 2008

Ebooks and the Iphone (Publishing Frontier) So by selling books as $5 iPhone books instead of $7 paperbacks, the publisher makes $0.90 per book. And, of course, if the publisher...

Cautious Optimism for Britannica's Hybrid Web Community

By Mac Slocum
June 11, 2008

There are a few red flags, but a new project from Britannica shows promise in connecting user-generated content and traditional editorial.

Yochai Benkler, others at Harvard map current and future Internet

By Andy Oram
May 16, 2008

Harvard's world-renowned Berkman Center for Internet & Society is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a conference called Berkman@10. The center is a conglomeration of many people, both lawyers and non-lawyers, who study the Internet and add their efforts to empower its users. In my opinion, the most salient contribution of the Berkman Center is its devotion to new research instead of pure theory. I'll report here on today's sessions, which were organized as a fairly conventional symposium (although as loosely as one could run it with 450 attendees).

News Roundup: Kindle 2.0 Speculation, Wikipedia: The Book, "Dilbert" Embraces User-Generated Content, Mobile Audiobook Downloads, Tracking Drafts and Revisions

By Mac Slocum
April 24, 2008

Speculation on Kindle 2.0 Ars Technica speculates on what the Kindle 2.0 might provide: ... the general hardware configuration appears to be here for a while. The fact that they're still selling the current version also suggests that they have...

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