2. You should write your own biography, not delegate it to invisible masses on Wikipedia.
3. You should write other people’s biographies, from your point of view. Or at least tell true stories about them, which can be assembled by others into alternate views.
4. Sign your name to all your writing. Use your real name, the one on your driver’s license, tax returns, passport, draft card.
5. If you care about a subject, write a definitive piece on it that reflects your point of view,. Don’t settle for a compromise, group-think sanitized version in the form of a Wikipedia page.
Dave Winer, “Corporate media is the problem“, Jan 17th, 2010
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1st Olympics on Television? America, Of Course! Wikiality
“1960 Winter Games. CBS paid $50,000 for the right to broadcast the games in the United States, and this marked the first time the Olympic Games were televised.”
Wikiality
There is a huge Wikipedia frontier of articles.
Six Apart CEO Chris Alden’s Wikiality
All praise the Wikipedia benevolent rulers!
I am discouraged, unlike Vera an article I found useful not only was nominated for deletion, but actually deleted. List of news aggregators was found lacking and deleted. Continue reading
Wikipedia to trial trust system
In the German system, any user will still be allowed to make edits to any article. Those edits won’t show up in the live version of the site, though, until a registered user with a certain level of time and experience approves the changes.
