UK politicians’ Wikipedia worries
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- Why Wikipedia block went wrong
- Skittles Replaces Web Site With Twitter Feed
- Cure for cancer intermittently available on Wikipedia
UK politicians’ Wikipedia worries
BBC News
The popular online encyclopedia’s great strength – and critics say its greatest weakness – is that the vast majority of its 2. 7 million entries can be instantly edited by anyone. And in the never-ending battle to gain political advantage that can prove irresistible. The Conservative Party was caught out last month tampering with an entry on the painter Titian.
Did Wikipedia Give Away The Winner of Tonight’s America’s Best …
Multichannel News
Did Wikipedia give away the winner of America’s Best Dance Crew Season Three – which airs tonight?The post by someone named Dom says he (she?) spotted a Wikipedia update which declared that Quest crew won the competition. The reason this post seems legit to me: the same thing happened last season. I noticed then that results were posted on the ABDC wikipedia page in advance of airing then erased a few hours later.
Battle for control of Santa Cruz councilman’s Wikipedia page persists
San Jose Mercury News
If you get your information online your view of Councilman Ryan Coonerty may depend on who last edited his Wikipedia page. Two years after Coonerty joined the Santa Cruz City Council in 2004 his supporters created an admittedly glowing Wikipedia profile that they hoped might hook Web-savvy young voters. Though he has long since been re-elected to the council what once seemed like hip political strategy has become a headache as Coonerty 35 engages in an ongoing struggle to control his online image on Wikipedia “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. ” It has gotten to the point where “given it all I would rather just not have a Wikipedia page” said Coonerty who in 2007 became the youngest Santa Cruz mayor in 30 years. “It gets looked at a lot.
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Why Wikipedia block went wrong
ZDNet Asia
Through a combination of technical factors people wishing to edit Wikipedia were blocked from doing so causing an outcry. The image the IWF tried to block was the LP cover for Virgin Killer a 1976 album by German rock band Scorpions. Peter Robbins chief executive of the IWF talked to ZDNet UK about the fallout from the decision to block the page and whether self-regulation of internet content is effective.
Skittles Replaces Web Site With Twitter Feed
FXNews
Instead of a typical product site that highlights information about or videos and games related to a product Skittles. com features content created by consumers — most of it gleaned from other Web sites. Posted on the site last week was the Skittles article from Wikipedia the user-created Web encyclopedia. com featured postings from the social-messaging site Twitter that include the word “skittles. Mars Snackfood says it redesigned the site to better connect with its core teenage audience which spends a lot of time using social media. “The teen audience relies heavily on their peers for advice on products.
Cure for cancer intermittently available on Wikipedia
Tiger Weekly
org finally approved a separate entry for “Cure for Cancer. ” The cure for all forms of cancer had been discovered more than four years ago by an independent researcher and obsessive pro bono Wikipedia editor known only by IP address 69.
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