Tag Archives: Research

Please don’t do this

By alex | Published: 9/5/2004
A week ago, I decided to test Wikipedia’s defenses, and vandalized several pages. At the time, I thought it was for the greater good. While the system could handle the small changes I made, I didn’t think of the larger social consequences. Others have done the same, and articles on both Slashdot and Boing Boing […]
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Return of Joe Isuzu

By alex | Published: 8/31/2004
Fine. Great. I get about a comment a day through the summer and then the first day of classes, when I have no chance of keeping up, I do something that brings a boatload or two of people to my blog. So, with apologies for the shotgun response… 1. You killed Wikipedia. You bastard! Well, […]
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The Isuzu Experiment

By alex | Published: 8/29/2004
Update (9/5): Please don’t do this: vandalizing the site is not a good way to test it. If you want to test Wikipedia, please do it non-destructively. Joi Ito points to an ongoing discussion regarding the authority of wikipedia as a source of information and knowledge. The discussion was prompted by an article in the […]
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Re-linking the discussion

By alex | Published: 7/4/2004
David Brake in comments on the Liz/Elijah conversation below, notes: Aargh. This is why I find weblogs often really frustrating as means of communication or content management. This post and its responses require a lot of background knowledge to understand which is hard to find. Actually, I think weblogs are _normally_ far less context-dependent than […]
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