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The LA Times’s article about the Wikimedia Foundation’s funding (read it quick before it goes to archive) has reanimated the undead prospect of advertising. It’s one of the oldest topics in Wikipedia circles, and it spawned one of the earliest project forks, and it still won’t die. Proponents of ads-on-wiki argue that ad content won’t [...]

So an unnamed member of an unnamed government contacted the Wikimedia Foundation recently, asking for staff guidance on setting up a wiki so that unnamed citizens of the unnamed jurisdiction could collaborate on new laws. Since the staff mainly handle the operational aspects of the various wikis, the question got passed off to the volunteers [...]

In a recent post, Kelly Martin called the “Ignore all rules” policy on Wikipedia the “Zen koan” of WP: those who understand it don’t need the words, and those who need the words cannot possibly understand it. It’s a great post, but I think it needs more elaboration. First, it’s important to note that IAR [...]

UPDATE: It’s done. Based on the logs, it looks like number two million is El Hormiguero, about a Spanish television show. (If you saw the clip of the people walking across the non-Newtonian fluid on YouTube: that’s the show.) Another update: Found a log listing articles with the count. You’ll have to scroll a bit [...]

Tonight I heard the word “Wikipedia” used as a verb. (Actual context was something along the lines of “Can you Wikipedia that guy and find out when he died?”) This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this usage, and I doubt it will be the last. It’s worth noting, however, that up until a few [...]