Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-07-03/In the news

Political troubles again
The press has discovered another politician whose career problems are being detailed in Wikipedia. This time it's San Jose mayor Ron Gonzales, as reported by the San Jose Mercury News, "On Wikipedia, someone's adding mayor's troubles to his profile".

Columnist complains of lost article
Linda Knapp of the Seattle Times, who recently wrote a review of Wikipedia (see archived story), followed up with an article based on responses to her column. She discussed the use of Wikipedia in schools and the Nature-Britannica dispute. Knapp also mentioned her efforts to submit an article on Photoshop Elements 4.0, based on another of her columns, but it "disappeared" into a redirect to Adobe Photoshop Elements.

On the radio
Wikipedia was discussed again by the radio program Open Source, as part of its show on The Limits of Crowds. Prompted by Jaron Lanier's recent essay about "online collectivism", it featured a discussion with Lanier along with other guests including James Surowiecki, Ze Frank, and David Weinberger.

News links

 * "Talking point: Wikipedia may be fallible, but we'd be crazy to stop consulting it", The Times, UK
 * "How to game Digg and the blogosphere", ZDNet, re: "Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google."
 * "Please contribute your Wikipedia headline here", Straight.com, Vancouver

Oddity?

 * "OSS CEO Speaks Out on First Amendment, Open Source Intelligence as Antidotes to State Secrecy and Questionable Practices", Yahoo! Finance (press release from OSS.net), calling on members of the intelligence community to contribute to the Open source intelligence article.

Critique
Self-published author Sam Vaknin wrote "The Six Sins of the Wikipedia" in Global Politician, his website, and dozens of other sites that distribute self-published content. Ta bu shi da yu wrote an extended rebuttal to Vaknin's points at User:Ta bu shi da yu/Global Politician. Ta bu shi da yu also deleted the Wikipedia article on Vaknin, which had been recreated after an earlier deletion.

Mentions

 * "Answers By the People, For the People", MIT Technology Review, Massachusetts
 * "Nothing left to prove" Scott McNealy says, "On average, Wikipedia will get it more right than the publishers will."
 * "NetSurf conquers Wikipedia", Drobe, re RISC OS browser, now able to display the absolute positioning on http://www.wikipedia.org/.