arstechnica.com— Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is making a personal plea for donations to the organization, stirring new discussion on whether Wikipedia should just start showing ads.
Dec 30, 2008View in Crawl 4
There are some very important differences between Digg and Wikipedia in this regard:- Digg doesn't have people and bots combing through entries reverting changes or marking articles for "speedy deletion" for all sorts of different, mostly subjective, reasons. Til now the only problem with this was overzealous volunteers but that could change.- Digg is rarely (if ever) used used as a serious reference.- Apart from modifying comments for a few minutes after submitting, Digg content can't be modified by users. I can't modify anyone else's contribution.- Every submission clearly shows who submitted it on Digg. WP does do this but it's "hidden" to the average user and it's not always trivial finding who made what change.Don't forget that there have been some controversies with articles being pulled and/or users being banned, IIRC. Plus there's the ongoing discussions of how a large percentage of Digg articles come from a small number of users.
nadcrakerDec 30, 2008
Why does it take $6 million to operate that site? That seems insane to me.
pistolfredDec 31, 2008
There are some very important differences between Digg and Wikipedia in this regard:- Digg doesn't have people and bots combing through entries reverting changes or marking articles for "speedy deletion" for all sorts of different, mostly subjective, reasons. Til now the only problem with this was overzealous volunteers but that could change.- Digg is rarely (if ever) used used as a serious reference.- Apart from modifying comments for a few minutes after submitting, Digg content can't be modified by users. I can't modify anyone else's contribution.- Every submission clearly shows who submitted it on Digg. WP does do this but it's "hidden" to the average user and it's not always trivial finding who made what change.Don't forget that there have been some controversies with articles being pulled and/or users being banned, IIRC. Plus there's the ongoing discussions of how a large percentage of Digg articles come from a small number of users.
novenatorJan 1, 2009
thx for the suggestion wikipanion. that thing rocks
sfacetsJan 1, 2009
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Closed AccountJan 2, 2009
they need a government bailout
andrewtheartJan 2, 2009
"The 6 million HAHAHA I CAN VANDALIZE WIKIPEDIA WOOHOO is to.... [citation needed]
artyouJan 30, 2009
I wonder what would happen... if Jimmy suddenly shut the site down because there weren't enough donations...
Closed AccountJun 24, 2009
Google Adsense in Wikipedia = annoying!
Closed AccountJun 24, 2009
... needs to study a lot more.
Closed AccountJun 24, 2009
Wikipedia needs to improve its content credibility first... Seek and destroy vandals! Improve site design too.<a class="user" href="http://www.foxmaverick.com/">http://www.foxmaverick.com/</a>