Wikimania 2011 - 3rd day: Wikipedia reconsidered - Everything You Know About Wikipedia Is Wrong

Room: Rapaport:
Date: 6.8.2011, 9:00-10:30

Wikipedia reconsidered -- Everything You Know About Wikipedia Is Wrong
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Everything_You_Know_About...

Everything You Know is Wrong: Unreferenced BLPs and Defamatory Statements
Ironholds
A presentation looking at unreferenced BLPs, the myths
surrounding them, and whether or not they are as much (or
more?) of a problem as people think.

The Lesser of Two Evils: How Paid Editing is like Needle Exchanges
Fluffernutter
A presentation on the approach we take to paid editing, and
the harm mitigation involved in permitting it.
Everything You Know is Temporal: Lost

Functionalities and Differing Policy
Kim Bruning
A presentation on lost functionalities, and how widely policy
varies between projects -- to the point where one language
version has four pillars, not five.

"Citation Needed": "Facts" Everyone Writes About Wikipedia That Aren't True
Mindspillage
A presentation on where "reliable sources": established
newspapers, wide-circulation magazines, academic presses --
whose words, unlike those of Wikipedia, may be taken as fact
-- get things wrong about the project.

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