Read more Wikipedia stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/278/wikipedia.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:28:51 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74620/contributors-flee-wikipedias-stricter-rules.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn an attempt to rein in the lawlessness and veiled opinion running rampant among its volunteer editors, Wikipedia may have shot itself in the foot. In the first 3 months of this year, there's been something of a stampede of contributors exiting the crowdsourced online encyclopedia, leading to a net...http://www.newser.com/story/74620/contributors-flee-wikipedias-stricter-rules.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 10:18:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70659/wales-wikipedia-changes-exaggerated.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWikipedia's editorial changes aren't so sweeping after all, says co-founder Jimmy Wales. Reports that the open-source encyclopedia would restrict edits to entries on all living people are “just completely wrong," he tells Time . Instead, the site will adopt “flagged revision”—in which edits are checked by a Wikipedia veteran before...http://www.newser.com/story/70659/wales-wikipedia-changes-exaggerated.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 17:30:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67998/wikipedia-labels-obama-harvard-puppet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOops. Wikipedia's new editorial oversight didn't start soon enough to block a statement in President Obama's Wiki profile that he's a "puppet" of Columbia and Harvard Law. Mystery writer "Mrjazzguitar" substituted the word in the kind of prank that Wikipedia hopes to curtail with its new policy to monitor all...http://www.newser.com/story/67998/wikipedia-labels-obama-harvard-puppet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 4:02:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67667/wikipedia-adds-editor-review-for-some-articles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter riding its users to popularity, Wikipedia is now moving to rein them in, the New York Times reports, by mandating editorial review for articles about living people. The feature, called “flagged revisions,” means an experienced editor will check updates to the free, user-generated online encyclopedia. The change should take...http://www.newser.com/story/67667/wikipedia-adds-editor-review-for-some-articles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 24 Aug 2009 21:10:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66887/army-launches-wiki-field-manuals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US Army has borrowed an idea—and some software—from Wikipedia to introduce field manuals any soldier can edit, the New York Times reports. Seven manuals have been opened for editing by anybody from private to general in a trial program the military says is an effort to close...http://www.newser.com/story/66887/army-launches-wiki-field-manuals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 14 Aug 2009 3:22:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65515/shrinks-fume-over-wikis-rorschach-cheat-sheet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPsychologists are seeing red in a row over Rorschach's famous inkblots, the New York Times reports. The original series of 10 inkblot images, whose interpretations are used to gain insight into a viewer's mind, have been posted on Wikipedia along with the most common responses. Psychologists fear that some people...http://www.newser.com/story/65515/shrinks-fume-over-wikis-rorschach-cheat-sheet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 29 Jul 2009 2:12:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62714/wired-editor-plagiarizes-wikipedia-in-new-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Virginia Quarterly Review has found almost a dozen plagiarized passages in Chris Anderson’s upcoming book Free , a book that, ironically, is all about free content. Most of the passages were cribbed verbatim from Wikipedia, while another was from a professor’s personal website, and yet another from another book. In...http://www.newser.com/story/62714/wired-editor-plagiarizes-wikipedia-in-new-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 24 Jun 2009 10:39:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60443/wikipedia-bars-edits-from-scientology-addresses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn an unusually broad push against posting biased content, Wikipedia’s “supreme court” has banned edits from IP addresses associated with Scientology headquarters and its affiliates, the Register reports. The Wikipedia Arbitration Committee voted 10-0 for the ban. Individual “Wikifiddlers” have had their privileges revoked in the past, but the move...http://www.newser.com/story/60443/wikipedia-bars-edits-from-scientology-addresses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 29 May 2009 10:24:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58662/obit-editors-fall-for-fake-wikipedia-quote.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Irish college student managed to prank the world media in an attempt to illustrate lax fact-checking in today’s 24-hour news cycle, the AP reports. When French composer Maurice Jarre died March 28, Shane Fitzgerald fabricated a delicious quote and put it on the Jarre Wikipedia page. The citizen editors...http://www.newser.com/story/58662/obit-editors-fall-for-fake-wikipedia-quote.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 11 May 2009 15:25:01 CDT