ReadWriteWeb: Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 07:51 via Delicious/martinstabe
"Moka Pantages, the communications officer for the WikiMedia Foundation ... discuss[ed] how the Wikipedia community addressed the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. ... by the end of the first day of the Wikipedia article's life, it had been edited more than 360 times, by 70 different editors referring to 28 separate sources from news outlets around the web. ... 'There's no real-time reporting going on in Wikipedia, it's real-time aggregation,' Pantages said. So the very first level of information vetting, which happens at the reporting level, has already taken place by the time it reaches the site." Read More...
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