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A talk I gave at Wikimania 2014 about the need to recognise Wikipedia's power as a newsmaker and why we need to be more reflective about our biases.
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Wikipedia and breaking news
The promise of a global news platform and the threat of the filter bubble
!Heather Ford | @hfordsa
All of us not just some of us.
(N)ews was being produced by regular people who had something to say and show, and not solely by the "official" news organizations that had traditionally decided how the first draft of history would look.2004
(Peer production projects like Wikipedia) enables many more individuals to communicate their observations and their viewpoints to many others, and to do so in a way that cannot be controlled by media owners and is not as easily corruptible by money as were the mass media.2006
<What is Wikipedia news?>
18 billion page views 500 million unique visitors per month
(Comscore)
1.8 million views
1. Wikipedia does journalism
2. Wikipedia avoids being biased
Journalists: sources = people Wikipedians: sources = documents
Sources
Wikipedia does Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in
Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may
not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not clearly stated
by the sources themselves.
Wikipedia: No Original Research
The topic of an article should be notable, or "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or
unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded”.
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Wikipedia: Notability
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011
Egypt braces for nationwide protests!By Jailan Zayan (AFP) – Jan 25, 2011
CAIRO — Egypt braced for a day of nationwide anti-government protests on Tuesday, with organisers counting on the Tunisian uprising to inspire crowds to mobilise for political and economic reforms.
2011 Egyptian protests!The 2011 Egyptian protests are a continuing series of street demonstrations taking place throughout Egypt from January 2010 onwards with organisers counting on the Tunisian uprising to inspire the crowds to mobilize.
‘(I knew) the thing was going to be big… before the revolution
became a revolution’. TheEgyptianLiberal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kenyan_invasion_of_Somalia_(2011)
</What is Wikipedia news?>
<Local spheres>
http://www.superbwallpapers.com/
Gilad Lotan: Twitter responses to the UNRWA school bombing https://medium.com/i-data/israel-gaza-war-data-a54969aeb23e
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<Wikipedia as an authoritative source>
• Pic: encyclopedias
</Wikipedia as an authoritative source>
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Pic by Martin Heigan CC BY NC SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_heigan/1457845785/in/photostream/
The sum of all human knowledge…
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