I was recently asked by a journalist – doing the fact-checking quality journalism aspires to – what was the basis for the claim that Nupedia had 24 …

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Here are the folks who appear to be the top 20 contributors to Wikipedia’s first 10,000 edits. (‘Josh Grosse’ was combined with ‘JoshuaGrosse …

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Sadly, for those of us interested in Wikipedia’s history, much material has been lost. For example, I found that it was common for people …

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Since I have been back in Cambridge, I have seen no less than three presentations by researchers at Harvard and MIT on the use of …

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A few weeks ago I sat down with David Weinberger, author of Everything Is Miscellaneous, to talk about Wikipedia. When David asked me if concerns …

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A convergence of events and reading has me thinking about trolls. First, I recently began reading Bill Eddy’s High Conflict People in Legal Disputes …

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I recently watched the new film Truth in Numbers with great interest. I find the concern with “truth” to be a fascinating one, both in …

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Video of the book-talk is now up, and a webcast at opensource.com is happening later today.

Update: see the webcast recap by Ruth Suehle …

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For next week’s reading group, we are reading Larry Sanger’s Individual Knowledge in the Internet. I usually enjoy Sanger’s thoughtful writing, and …

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The inaugural Good Faith Collaboration book talk is next week: Tuesday October 19 12:30 PM ET in Pound Hall Room 335. The slides (and …

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