Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia’s bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.
Read Wikipedia to Seek Credentials Proof from Time (similar one from the AP via Yahoo). On topic: Wikipedia ire turns against ex-editor and Wikipedia to Seek Proof of Credentials
- Articles that cite dead links
- College doesn’t allow Wiki citations in papers, Wikipedia agrees
- Anti-predator law targets Wikis
- Wikipedia seeks to reducejunk links
- When is it appropriate to delete a wiki article?
- Wiki’s are subject to pranksterism
Previously from WNM: