Wikirevisionism
Created by Joe Clark (Florida State University) on March 03, 2006
More grist for the Wikipedia trashers: a report in a Massachusetts newspaper disclosing the fact that congressional staffers have been editing entries to "correct" unfavorable information. Not much of a surprise there (though Nature did recently publish the results of a study showing Wikipedia to be about as accurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica, so I'm not giving up on Wikipedia yet).
But I wonder if Wikipedia's open-editing process can be used to more openly track historical revision?
But I wonder if Wikipedia's open-editing process can be used to more openly track historical revision?
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You'd need something that would go beyond what Wikipedia does now - good point. I wonder if the API would permit development of an outside monitoring tool to track editing trends. I'm thinking of the way the developers of revealicious and the flickr related tag browser took the tagging concept and rotated it into community conceptual maps. Not so much this application, but the way the data is mined for very different purposes.
It's just a loose thought, and probably not worth it unless/until this becomes a more widely used tool for the cultural epistemic. But wouldn't that be neat, to see who's making what kinds of changes across time and information?