BurningbirdThere were a lot of good comments in the sock puppet post, and I’m going to just pull out bits without giving proper credit, because I’m a bit tired today, and actually not feeling all that great. I am in the Wikipedia now. Does this make me an insider who is an outsider? Or an […]
I can either spend the afternoon working on another Wikipedia article, or I can enjoy the 50 degree sunny weather and the fact that I have my car today and get out of the house and maybe even take some pictures. Ah, geez. Don’t you hate it when you have to make tough choices?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There is considerably more organization to Wikipedia than meets the eye. For instance, not all user accounts are treated equally, and specific types of users can be banned from Wikipedia access. One such type of user is known as a sock puppet or, more typically, sockpuppet. A sockpuppet is a Wikipedia contributor who […]
I wanted to note that the Podcasting article at Wikipedia has been designated a good article and may end up being a featured article. There have been edits to the section I re-wrote, but the edits have been to add additional information. I wouldn’t necessarily have added some of it, but what was added was neutral in tone, […]
Rogers Cadenhead wrote on Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales edits of his own biography. During the discussion, Rogers mentioned his own Wikipedia entry. I checked, and sure enough: Rogers has an entry. That’s odd, I thought. Many of the male webloggers I know have an entry in Wikipedia, but most of the women I know, don’t. I […]