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The Moral Responsibility of Game Creators
games.slashdot.org Gamasutra.com has reactions from another provocative question of the week. The topic this time was "Do game creators have any moral responsibilities in teaching values to their audience?" There were many responses on both sides of the issue. From the arti
4 years ago
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Fox News, NYT personnel cleaning up Wikipedia entries?
news.com Blog: According to analysis, people using Fox News and New York Times IP addresses have been scrubbing Wikipedia entries.
2 years ago
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ESA Alter Wikipedia entries on Mod Chips, Delete Positive Uses
maxconsole.net Gamepolitics that the ESA has been altering Wikipedia entries regarding the use of Mod Chips. Acccording to GP, the ESA deleted a discussion of mod chip legality and claimed they are outright illegal, and a minute later a section which discussed the posi
2 years ago
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The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry
slashdot.org Timothy found a profile in The New Republic of Jonathan Schilling, a 53-year-old software developer from New Jersey who works to keep Hillary Clinton's Wikipedia entry clean and fair throughout the election season. "After he started editing her page in Ju
1 year ago
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WikiReader: Over 3 million Wikipedia entries in the palm of your hand
blogs.zdnet.com The WikiReader, available as of today, is a palm-sized device that puts over 3 million Wikipedia entries at your fingertips.
1 month ago
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New Tool Applies 'Trust' Codes to Wikipedia Entries
wired.com A UC Santa Cruz prof designs a tool to give Wikipedia users a better idea of how trustworthy entries are. The software flags questionable lines by turning the text orange -- the more it's been tinkered with, the deeper the orange. This, on the heels of th
2 years ago
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Sacha Baron Cohen Wikipedia Entry Creates Circular References
slashdot.org Lantrix writes "An anonymous user added information about to Wikipedia's entry on Sacha Baron Cohen three days before the now-referenced external article was written. The Independent wrote the referenced article apparently using Wikipedia as the source es
1 year ago
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Tool Shows the Arguments Behind Wikipedia Entries
slashdot.org Al writes "A team of researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center have created a tool that shows how much argument has gone into crafting a entry. Ed Chi, a senior research scientist for augmented social cognition at the PARC obtained access to Wikipedia
9 months ago
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Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers
slashdot.org worb writes "According to the Lowell Sun, U.S. Rep Marty Meehan's staff has been heavily editing his Wikipedia bio, among other things removing criticisms. In total, more than one thousand Wikipedia edits in various articles have been traced back to congr
3 years ago
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'Web 2.0' Most Popular Wikipedia Entry
slashdot.org theodp writes "It came as no surprise to Tim O'Reilly that Nielsen BuzzMetrics found 'Web 2.0' the most cited Wikipedia article of the year (as measured by blog mentions). From the article: 'Wikipedia had a big blog boom itself this year with almost 29,00
2 years ago
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To delete Wikipedia entry or not to delete?
news.com That is the question for site adminstrators mulling an article recently posted about a CNET News.com reporter. Is he worthy?
2 years ago
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Does Wikipedia entry offer clue to Benoit family murders?
news.com Blog: An anonymous edit to Wikipedia could provide a clue about the deaths of former professional wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and 7-year-old son. Or it could simply be random vandalism.
2 years ago
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Wikipedia Entry for EverQuest
eqvault.ign.com An interesting discussion has popped up on the EQPlayers boards about the current Wiki entry for EverQuest. One particular paragraph, subsequently...
2 years ago
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EA Wikipedia entry edits traced back to publisher
gamespot.com Web-sleuthing tool yields evidence that someone with the company erased or spun criticisms on publicly edited reference site.
2 years ago
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ESA, EA Caught Editing Their Own Wikipedia Entries
games.slashdot.org With the whitewashing of Wikipedia now an easily-reviewable record, it's been noted that games-related organizations are not above tweaking their public image online. Joystiq notes that EA, for example, is unabashed about removing founder Trip Hawkins fro
2 years ago
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ESA, EA Caught Editing Their Own Wikipedia Entries
games.slashdot.org With the whitewashing of Wikipedia now an easily-reviewable record, it's been noted that games-related organizations are not above tweaking their public image online. Joystiq notes that EA, for example, is unabashed about removing founder Trip Hawkins fro
2 years ago
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Sony Caught Editing Halo 3 Wikipedia Entry
neowin.net The original entry stated: 'Halo 3, the third game in the best-selling Xbox game franchise Halo, is a highly anticipated first-person shooter video game under development by Bungie Studios for the Xbox 360 and is expected to "set a new high water mark" fo
2 years ago
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Police Chief Demands His Staff Monitor His Wikipedia Entry
techdirt.com Just as Slashdot is reporting about the mayor of Florence suing Wikipedia comes the news that a police chief in West Yorkshire, in the UK, is so upset with the edits to hi
1 year ago
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Journal requires peer-reviewed Wikipedia entry to publish
arstechnica.com A scientific journal that specializes in RNA molecules is requiring any authors that submit a specific type of paper also prepare an additional document for peer review: a Wikipedia page summarizing the paper.
11 months ago
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