From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Mar  4 10:36:48 2011
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:36:48 +0100
Subject: <CPOV> Wikipedia survey for the Sztakipedia project
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> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 13:28:11 +0100
> From: Mih?ly H?der <hedermisi at gmail.com>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Wikipedia survey for the Sztakipedia project
>
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to ask you a little, but important help.
> I'm doing research on the future of the Wikipedia editor interface.  
> In order
> to understand better the view of the Wikiepedia users I compiled a  
> survey.
> With filling the forms you can contribute to the survey, and your  
> view will
> be taken into account assessing  the general requirements of the  
> editors of
> Wikipedia, and also that of the readers of Wikipedia.
>
> Please help me by filling the following form (it takes 3 minutes max):
> http://pedia.sztaki.hu/survey_en
> *and* by forwarding this mail to everyone you can think of. The more  
> (and
> not only tech-savvy) people we reach, the better. So please, do not  
> leave
> out anyone who has the slightest chance to use the internet (friends,
> family, students, mailing lists, neighbours, classmates, co-workers,  
> etc.)
>
> The results will be available in raw form and explained by  
> 31/03/2011 at:
> http://pedia.sztaki.hu , and also I will compile a white paper in the
> subject (strictly for an Open Access journal)
>
> (if this letter reaches you more than once it is my fault)
>
> Thank you very much:
> Mih?ly H?der
> Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of
> Sciences +
> Budapest University of Technology, Philosophy of Science PhD student






From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Mar 25 20:54:28 2011
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:54:28 +0100
Subject: <CPOV> Sock puppets on Wikipedia
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> Resent-From: nettime at kein.org
> From: "nettime's avid reader" <nettime at kein.org>
> Date: 25 March 2011 3:30:28 PM
> Resent-To: Nettime <nettime-l at kein.org>
> To: nettime-l at kein.org
> Subject: <nettime> Sock puppets on Wikipedia
>
> Koch Industries Employs PR Firm To Airbrush Wikipedia, Gets Banned For
> Unethical ?Sock Puppets?
>
> http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/09/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/
>
> Last year, Koch Industries began employing New Media Strategies  
> (NMS), an
> Internet PR firm that specializes in ?word-of-mouth marketing? for  
> major
> corporations including Coca-Cola, Burger King, AT&T, Dodge and Ford.  
> It
> appears that, ever since the NMS contract was inked with Koch, an NMS
> employee began editing the Wikipedia page for ?Charles Koch,? ?David  
> Koch,?
> ?Political activities of the Koch family,? and ?The Science of  
> Success? (a
> book written by Charles). Under the moniker of ?MBMAdmirer,? NMS  
> employees
> edited Wikipedia articles to distance the Koch family from the Tea  
> Party
> movement, to provide baseless comparisons between Koch and conspiracy
> theories surrounding George Soros, and to generally delete citations  
> to
> liberal news outlets. After administrators flagged the MBMAdmirer  
> account
> as a ?sock puppet? ? one of many fake accounts used to manipulate  
> new media
> sites ? a subsequent sock puppet investigation found that MBMAdmirer  
> is
> connected to a number of dummy accounts and ones owned by NMS  
> employees
> like Jeff Taylor.
>
> Soren Dayton, a GOP operative and executive at New Media Strategies,  
> is
> reported to be the contact for Koch Industries at NMS. Reached by  
> phone
> yesterday by ThinkProgress, Dayton exclaimed, ?I?m not going to talk  
> about
> this, thanks,? before hanging up. Lyndsey Medsker, a senior account
> director for NMS, spoke to ThinkProgress today. She explained that  
> NMS also
> maintains the Koch Industries Twitter page, Facebook page, and has an
> active team working on promoting Koch Industries in the comment  
> section of
> blogs and news websites.
>
> As ThinkProgress has reported, the billionaire Koch brothers maintain
> contracts with over a dozen public relation firms and lobbying firms.
> Pushing back again recent scrutiny, the brothers have also relied on a
> conservative media infrastructure owned by the Koch brothers or  
> closely
> linked to them by way of their donor conferences. We have documented  
> how
> the Koch message machine has targeted ThinkProgress and even placed  
> hit-
> pieces against a New Yorker journalist investigated the Kochs. But  
> now it
> seems the Koch brothers are at work manipulating Wikipedia to polish  
> their
> image.
>
> Update: New Media Strategies at one point tried to lie about its
> affiliation with Koch Industries. The account "MBMAdmirer" wrote in
> December on Wikipedia: "I am a citizen who has read about and  
> admires the
> Koch family. I was not pleased with the way that they have been  
> presented
> in the media. And I thought that I could come to Wikipedia to try to  
> make
> sure that there are balancing facts. Nothing I do is in coordination  
> with
> Koch or authorized by Koch.
>
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Mar 28 09:26:57 2011
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:26:57 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> wikipedias-view-of-world-history-visualized-in-100-seconds
Message-ID: <6EF293C8-DB51-4BDD-B4A3-C5B718EF872A@xs4all.nl>

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/wikipedias-view-of-world-history-visualized-in-100-seconds-20110325/