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...websites - foodista.com and the recipe section of wikia.com - are letting users post and change each others' recipes (basically doing to recipes what Wikipedia lets average Joes do to encyclopedia entries), we thought we'd compare a great chef's great cookie against one that was a blunt mathematical average of lots of cookie recipes. The great chef is Kerry Simon of Simon in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe comes from blogger.com cofounder Meg Hourihan, who posted it on her website, megnut.com...
Late in August, Wikipedia announced that it was reining in its freewheeling ways. In several interviews, including many with TIME, officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that manages Wikipedia, explained that the user-edited online encyclopedia would soon impose restrictions on articles about living people. Under the new policy, anonymous Web editors would still be allowed to freely change biographical Wikipedia entries - but their changes would be made visible to readers only after an experienced Wikipedia volunteer had approved them. The plan, officials explained, would make the world's largest encyclopedia more accurate and fair, and would help prevent...
...plan - still under development and, like everything else about Wikipedia, in flux - means that the online encyclopedia will undergo a far less momentous change than was previously reported. Wikipedia has long imposed tight controls on articles about boldface names - entries on Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Britney Spears, among roughly 3,000 others, are "semi-protected," meaning they can't be edited by anonymous surfers. Wales says that, at least initially, the new flagged-protection plan will probably apply to the same set of controversial articles, which are most prone to vandalism. But the vast majority of articles - even...
...specific plan - only a goal. "The average Wikipedian is a young man in a wealthy country who's probably a grad student - somebody who's smart, literate, engaged in the world of ideas, thinking, learning, writing all the time," Gardner says. Those people are invaluable, she notes, but the encyclopedia is missing the voices of people in developing countries, women and experts in various specialties that have traditionally been divorced from tech. "We're just starting to get our heads around this. It's a genuinely difficult problem," Gardner says. "Obviously, Wikipedia is pretty good now. It works...
...result is a volume that assembles the work of visual artists, novelists, as well as traditional scholars. But Sollors emphasized the book is “not an encyclopedia but a provocation...