Internet Drama: a consensual field study into online consensus building.
In the age of the internet, whatever appears to have consensus online is true, even if it isn’t. The converse is also true, anything that […]
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Oliver D. Smith, MediaWiki poster boy.
Depending on your search history and interests, there is a decent chance you’ve come across a number of articles written and edited across Wikipedia and […]
Follow the White Rabbit, indeed; Wiki wars, QAnon style
Wikipedia We Have a Problem has always focused on behaviors in collaborative, online consensus building. This case study began exploring “heated” consensus building on Wikipedia […]
True Tales from Weird Wikipedia: Incident at the Fringe Theory Noticeboard
Roger Stone, the infamous far-right political trickster strategist for Nixon and Trump, quipped in the brilliant Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone that “Politics isn’t theater. It’s […]
Come play the Wikipedia BLP-Palooza!
Last week Entrepreneur online featured a guest writer, Amy Osmond Cook – who blogged about “what she learned when her Wikipedia page was deleted”. Her biography […]
How to ban a POV you don’t like, in 9 easy steps.
Editor Suppression on Wikipedia By Rome Viharo Editor suppression is defined as online behaviors performed “on the sly” by Wikipedia editors to remove dissenting or […]
Censorship, suppression, the shining light of Wikipedia, and other disappointments.
The world has surely done it this time. The government of Turkey has completely blocked Wikipedia, labeling it as a “national security threat.” Jimbo Wales, […]
Google Consciousness and Wiki Brain.
[SPOILER] I don’t believe Google’s search algorithm is sentient. I’m sorry that I have to give away the plot twist, completely ruining my former TEDx talk, […]
S is for Sock Puppet.
As mentioned a few posts ago, there has been further fakery afoot in the wild wonky world of wiki wars. Treachery. Jytdog, the infamous Wikipedia […]
How to catch a skeptic.
Deepak Chopra’s wiki war, part two. There is perhaps no other human being walking the face of the earth that can trigger reactions on Wikipedia amongst […]