Wikipedia

[klorpet]

I just love the idea of a community based shared information source. The internet has long been an incredible source of information and a great storage medium, however the advent of Web 2.0 is an interesting progression.

My limited understand of the term and how it works is reversing the information cycle. Instead of having a location (lets say a website) that provides information or a service that people go to, a concept is created that actually utilises those people. Thus turning them into a resource.

In the case of Wikipedia, they have created an online enclyopedia utilising the knowledge and expertise of everyone on the internet. Anyone can log in and change data, change information. This makes for a very dynamic situation for knowledge.

Sure it could be abused, and wrong information entered, but any encyclopedia has incorrect or out of date information, and in a recent study it was shown that wikipedia is showing the same sort of percentage for accuracy by simply relying on the public to provide the information.

What a really interesting idea. You can have your say and put your interpretations forward. Of course anyone else can change what you have written as well.

[Quozty]

Wikipedia is from my experience full of people who take "editing" too far, I run a podcasting network and a few of our fans have added us to the offical page of the game we podcast about, but everytime someone adds it it auto gets removed, I signed up to wikipedia to explain that its the wikipedia audience adding the link and not the podcast hosts (I asked them not to) and the whole subject turned personal

[sammy]

Friends, You are making this discussion really interesting by putting interesting facts. Keep going. I will also contribute some interesting facts here soon.

[martinig]

I agree with Quotzy that there seem to be a debate in wikipedia related to external links. For some editors, every external link in an article seems to be treated as spam.

[JohnDoe]

Wikipedia is from my experience full of people who take "editing" too far, I run a podcasting network and a few of our fans have added us to the offical page of the game we podcast about, but everytime someone adds it it auto gets removed, I signed up to wikipedia to explain that its the wikipedia audience adding the link and not the podcast hosts (I asked them not to) and the whole subject turned personal

I've had much the same problem with a number of fansites I had. A member would add the fansite and wiki removed it.