[FairfieldLife] Wikipedia
The New Yorker's July 31, 2006 edition has a very good article on the phenomena of Wikipedia. It's available on-line here: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Wikipedia spin-off
Co-Founder of Wikipedia, Now a Critic, Starts Spinoff With Academic Editors By BROCK READ Can scholars build a better version of Wikipedia? Larry Sanger, a co- founder who has since become a critic of the open-source encyclopedia, intends to find out. This week Mr. Sanger announced the creation of the Citizendium, an online, interactive encyclopedia that will be open to public contributors but guided by academic editors. The site aims to give academics more authorial control -- and a less combative environment -- than they find on Wikipedia, which affords all users the same editing privileges, whether they have any proven expertise or not. http://chronicle.com/ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Wikipedia in The Times
*Superb* long article on Wikipedia in the NYTimes magazine: http://tinyurl.com/2ofc4h The writer, Jonathan Dee (a novelist as well as a contributor to the magazine), has managed to combine a great deal of solid information about Wikipedia with a wonderful feel for its ethos and what the people are like who do the bulk of the work. Lots of telling anecdotes, a good bit of humor. I practically worship journalism like this. This article is a work of art, but it's so compusively readable you may not realize it until you take a step back and realize what Dee has accomplished.
[FairfieldLife] Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology
May 29, 2009Wikipedia bans Church of ScientologyPosted: 03:47 PM ETThe collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology from editing the site. The Register reports Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee, or ArbCom, voted 10 to 0 in favor of the ban, which takes effect immediately.Wikipedia’s innovative free-encyclopedia draws upon the knowledge of millions of users to create and edit articles on every conceivable topic. Edits appear immediately and do not undergo any formal peer-review process.Wikipedia officially prohibits use of the encyclopedia to advance personal agendas – such as advocacy or propaganda and philosophical, ideological or religious dispute – but the open format makes enforcing such policies difficult.According to Wikipedia administrators speaking to The Register:Multiple editors have been “openly editing [Scientology-related articles] from Church of Scientology equipment and apparently coordinating their activities.”However, Karin Pouw, with the Church of Scientology’s public affairs office, told me she is unaware of any coordinated effort to alter Wikipedia. Instead, she described the edits as individual attempts to correct inaccurate information by impassioned Scientologists and interpreted the ban as a typical Wikipedia response to arguments over content. She noted that even the U.S. Department of Justice received a temporary ban after someone erased references to a controversial scandal from inside the government agency.One Wikipedia contributor I spoke with that was involved in the Scientology arbitration agreed that some of the edits coming from the church were justifiable, but insisted the ban was necessary after the church refused to follow Wikipedia’s policies:“The edits coming out of Church of Scientology servers were of the sort that made their organization look better. Up to a point that’s justifiable, when it comes to correcting inaccuracies or removing poorly sourced negative information. There were times when they went beyond that and deleted well sourced information that was unflattering, and there were times when they insulted other editors in a manner that would reflect poorly upon any religion.”Some see Wikipedia’s decision as a setback to the Utopian goal of Web 2.0 in which every user is allowed to freely contribute.How do you feel about the ban? Should Wikipedia actively suppress self-serving, misleading or inaccurate information? Or does every voice deserve to be heard?
[FairfieldLife] Wikipedia article of the day on Shankara
The English Wikipedia article of the day is on Adi Shankara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and to the article directly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Wikipedia and the war on life-embracing free-thinking souls
The rethoric at wikipedia is in itself pointless - it serves only as a distraction from the hard facts on the ground: someone has set up a number of wikipedia accounts they use in a way that allows them to control the content of any article of their choice whilst ensuring that "rule-abiding wikipedians" like see-no-evil and hear-no-evil minded, naive, TMers (no doubt the effect of the fantastic meditation techniques the Guru has given them) does not see what's going on. Even though the Andrew Skolnick, and other hostile, account(s) work to keep information about MMY and his work in a perpetually degraded state might appear to have emotions, Peter Klutz believes that the character of the real controller/benefiter of this operation is far more likely to be akin to, for example, the aloof cooldness usually associated with governments - entities operating vith longer-term views than humans. Given the observed MO of wikipedia admins, Peter Klutz also believes that the same dark shadow has been cast over that organization, too, - a faith it then shares with other organziations that have grown too big to make the powers-that-are feel comfortable to leave them in peace. If wikipeida is the future of democracy - the continuation of divide and rule in cyberspace - this is not a future Peter Klutz is interested in being part of. Jai Guru Dev --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > ... I'm critizing > the anti-TMers' lack of fairness and accuracy. I'm > criticizing what I see as their lack of integrity. Any > "defense" of the TMO is just a side effect, not my main > motivation. > > I will "defend" people and perspectives I strongly > disagree with if I feel they're being attacked > unfairly or inaccurately, just because it's the > right thing to do. Obviously that isn't your > approach. > [snip] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Wikipedia edit war currently in full Swing over Maharishi Mahesh Yogi article
Someone caling himself Andrew Skolnick (www.aaskolnick.com | 149.152.216.49) is currently tearing it apart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
