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Observer Gives Wikipedia Glowing Report
JaxWeb writes "The UK newspaper The Observer is running an article about the open encyclopaedia Wikipedia. The article, 'Why encyclopaedic row speaks volumes about the old guard,' gives Wikipedia a glowing report and mentions some of the issues which have recently occurred regarding the project, including the need to lock the George Bush article in the run up to the election, and Ex-Britannica editor Robert McHenry's comments, as previously mentioned on Slashdot."
Which "old guard?" Do they mean the likes of the USSR and the Berlin wall or the editors?
There has been an ongoing "edit war" between the pro's and con's of the article, Perverted-Justice.com. The owner of Perverted Justice has been editing out all the "cons" regarding his site, and this is getting to be a problem with persons opposed to the vigilante site as shown in the discussion section. The article needs to be locked in order for everyone to have their say, rather than the censoring by Eide, the owner of Perverted Justice. As an aside, Eide has in recent days put out a call to action for his supporters to email Google and get all of the sites and news stories questioning his site and their tactics delinked.
Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
I just sent them a small donation to perhaps cover my own bandwidth costs for the next year or so. When I have time, I would like trying to download the version of their database that only contains most recent edits (i.e., not all edit histories). A lot of the articles have good categories attached to them so I would like to do a machine learning run to build a categorizer (but this took me several days to do with the Reuters corpus, so I may not get to this for a while).