Wikipedia
Summary
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 15 million articles (over 3.3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.The word Wikipedia ( /ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdi.ə/ or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) was coined by Larry Sanger and is a portmanteau from wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia.Although the policies of Wikipedia strongly espouse verifiability and a neutral point of view, critics of Wikipedia accuse it of systemic bias and inconsistencies (including undue weight given to popular culture), and allege that it favors consensus over credentials in its editorial process.
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Pew Study: Americans Abandoning News Outlets, Citing Lower Quality
Like all vicious cycles, the relationship between the declining fortunes of news outlets and the shrinking of their audiences is a difficult one to untangle, a chicken-and-egg problem. Newspaper circulations have been sliding for decades, starting well before digital media started siphoning off ad dollars and forcing widespread newsroom cutbacks that, inevitably, resulted in a poorer editorial product.
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Maxim Magazine’s Owners Exploring A Sale
Maxim, the loutish lifestyle magazine whose 1998 launch completely reshaped the men’s publishing field, is once again in play.
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Buzzfeed Using ‘Featured Partner’ Links on Fark to Drive Traffic to Its Native Ads
One of the wonderful things about Fark, the weird/funny/stupid news aggregator, has always been its utter simplicity. Fark. com is little more than a running scroll of cleverly worded one- or two-sentence links to stories from around the web. Like the Drudge Report, to which it’s often compared, it has changed little since its inception in 1999.
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Study Finds Most Teachers Use Wikipedia, Are Hypocrites
Where are all the students? They're on Wikipedia, like their teacher. (Photo credit: Wikipedia).
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How Inbox Zero Became Inbox 50: The Evolution of a Resolution
This is how I feel with no messages in my inbox. That's normal, right? (Photo credit: Wikipedia).
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Dr. Oz’s Five Wackiest Medical Beliefs
"You say they're only about yay long? And do they float or sink?" (Photo credit: Wikipedia).
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How Amazon Should Fix Its Reviews Problem
Amazon has trust issues. It relies on its users to review its products, and those users rely on each other’s reviews in making their purchasing decisions, especially when it comes to books. Yet to say that user-generated reviews on Amazon (and around the Web in general) are an untrustworthy measure of quality is a massive understatement.
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Press Publish 3: Jay Rosen on the public, how the press thinks, and the production of innocence
It’s Episode 3 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is Jay Rosen, the NYU journalism professor and thinker about the ways of journalism.
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Jill Kelley complains about how the media covered her
Howard Kurtz says Jill Kelley “fervently wants to erase her public image as, to use the phrase that has dogged her, the Other Other Woman” in the Petraeus affair.
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Knight News Challenge: Mobile winners announced
Eight projects received a total of $2. 4 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as winners of the 2012 Knight News Challenge's third and final round. The previous rounds focused on networks and data. This time, the theme was mobile. The Wikimedia Foundation won the biggest prize: $600,000 to make Wikipedia.
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