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"[Wikipedia Authors] are 80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more than 85 percent without children, and around 70 percent of them are under the age of 30."

I have been a registered editor at wikipedia for about two and a half years. The following restriction was just placed on me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive572#Grundle2600:_continued_problems "Grundle2600 is subject to an indefinite topic ban - he is prohibited from editing any pages relating to US politics or politicians. The ban will be enforced by escalating blocks." As a so-called justification for this restriction, the following contributions by me to wikipedia were cited: "On April 20, 2009, Obama convened his Cabinet for the first time, and ordered them to reduce the $3.5 trillion federal budget by $100 million." Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041902009.html "In February 2009,...

I have been a registered editor at wikipedia for about two and a half years. The following restriction was just placed on me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive572#Grundle2600:_continued_problems "Grundle2600 is subject to an indefinite topic ban - he is prohibited from editing any pages relating to US politics or politicians. The ban will be enforced by escalating blocks." As a so-called justification for this restriction, the following contributions by me to wikipedia were cited: "On April 20, 2009, Obama convened his Cabinet for the first time, and ordered them to reduce the $3.5 trillion federal budget by $100 million." Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041902009.html "In February 2009,...

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Teddymandering is the practice of changing a law to benefit your political party, then reversing the change when your political party will benefit from the original rules to which you objected. Named for former Massachusetts Senator Edward M. "Teddy" Kennedy. Senator Kennedy influenced the Massachusetts state legislature to change the Senatorial succession law during the 2004 election. His reasons were strictly because Senator John Kerry, if elected President, would be replaced by an appointee of (then) Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican. At the time, Kennedy was against any interim appointment until a special election could be held. In 2009, as...

NRO's "The Corner" discusses Wiki's bias Over at NRO’s “The Corner,� Jay Nordlinger tangentially mentioned Wikipedia’s left-wing bias. (Also read John J. Miller’s excellent article.) What does one get when a biased Internet medium covers biased MSM “journalists�? In one, minor case, the Wikipedia profile of MSNBC’s David Shuster calls him: “a regional Emmy award winning American journalist for NBC News and MSNBC.� David Shuster filled in for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown Monday. Here are a few of the questions this “journalist� asked about the 9/12 rally of his guest, Clarence Page, in the opening segment alone: It seemed...

The Republican congressman whose outburst of "you lie!" during President Barack Obama's healthcare speech to Congress is now under lock and key. At least online. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) now has a locked Wikipedia page after vandals edited his profile to allege that he was a dooshbag." In his Bio it stated: He is a dooshbag that called the President of the United States a liar on national television and has no respect for the office he holds.

Today's Internet is governed by the idea that crowds of people can create the news, share information and collaborate on online projects. So when Wikipedia, the user-written encyclopedia that's built an empire on this ideal, decided this week to add a layer of oversight to its system, the Web erupted in debate. The popular encyclopedia, which has drawn criticism for inaccuracies, says it will try assigning editors to some of its entries. These trusted volunteers likely would have to approve public edits before they're published to English-language stories about living people. Some see the move as a shift away from...

Lawyer for parent foundation worried about impact of recently dismissed lawsuitLiterary agent Barbara Bauer wasn't happy about being called the "dumbest" of agents on a list title "20 Worst Literary Agents" posted to Wikipedia. So Bauer sued the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the website, for defamation -- even though an unaffiliated user of the online encylopedia was ultimately reponsible for creating and posting the item. The case was dismissed by Judge James Perri of New Jersey's Superior Court based on the US Communications Decency Act's immunity from liability afforded to operators of online services. And as a University...

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has been drawn into a row over its decision to publish common responses to the 10 Rorschach inkblots. The plates were created by the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach for his book "Psychodiagnostik," published in 1921. Because they were made more than 90 years ago their US copyright has lapsed. However, psychologists have complained that publishing the inkblots and responses is the equivalent to putting answers to school exams on the internet. "The only winners seem to be those for whom this issue has become personal, and who see this as a game in which victory means...

Call it the Press Conference From Hell.Toledo mayoral candidate Ben Konop, an earnest young liberal, thought it would be a great idea to conduct a press conference in front of the home where his mother grew up. Little did Ben know that Maxwell the Heckler, the next door neighbor, would completely destroy his press conference and forever burn that incident into the public memory of Mr. Konop. To get the full hilarious flavor of how Maxwell destroyed the press conference, take a look at the video. Most of the heckling consisted of "Boo! LIAR! BOOOOO!" The first reaction of your...

The battle over Wikipedia's use of images from a British art gallery's website has intensified. The online encyclopaedia has accused the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of betraying its public service mission. But the gallery has said it needs to recoup the £1m cost of its digitisation programme and claims Wikipedia has misrepresented its position. The NPG is threatening legal action after 3,300 images from its website were uploaded to Wikipedia. The high-resolution images were uploaded by Wikipedia volunteer Derrick Coetzee.

Wikipedia says Obama born in Kenya Online encyclopedia can't make up its mind on president's birthplace By Joe Kovacs © 2009 WorldNetDaily Wikipedia just can't seem to make up its mind about where President Barack Obama was born. The free, online encyclopedia this afternoon displayed at least two countries the commander in chief may have been born in – the United States and Kenya. WND documented how the entry for the "Early life and career of Barack Obama" changed numerous times. At 4:45 p.m. Eastern, Wikipedia said: "Barack Obama, the current President of the United States, was born on August...

Melbourne, July 09: Wikipedians have slammed a report that found them to be egocentric introverts, socially awkward, and closed to new ideas...

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For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of its reporters, David Rohde, had been kidnapped by the Taliban. But that was pretty straightforward compared with keeping it off Wikipedia.

This article at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan-American_Treaty_of_Friendship is totally inaccurate and helps the lie that Obama told about it in his speech in Cairo about our long friendship with Islamic nations. This was the treaty to prevent our ships from being attacked by the Barbary Pirates and was soon abrogated by them and resulted in the war against the Barbary Pirates. Can someone please correct it.

Scientology members no longer have access to Wikipedia as the website has banned the so-called Church of Scientology to edit the content of the site. Wikipedia, the biggest online encyclopedia has blocked all the IPs which were making changes to Scientology pages from the site in order to avoid propaganda and “sock puppet” attacks. This is the first time Wikipedia decides to take drastic measures against one organization, but nothing is new as the site’s administrators has been banning individual Scientology users for a long time.

In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates. Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) in favor of the move, which takes effect immediately. ... Admins may ban a Wikifiddler who betrays an extreme conflict of interest, and since fiddlers often hide their identity behind open proxies, such IPs may be banned as a preventative measure. After today's ruling from the Arbitration Committee...

When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.

When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked. The sociology major's obituary-friendly quote-which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28-flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia twice caught the quote's lack of...

"Shane Fitzgerald, 22, a final-year student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin, told the newspaper he placed the quote on the website as an experiment when doing research on globalisation. He quoted Oscar-winning composer Jarre as saying, "One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. "When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear." The quote was posted on Wikipedia shortly after Jarre's...

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We've all come to take important free online services like Wikipedia for granted, and sleep soundly with the knowledge that much of the work done keeping them relevant is done by volunteers. But that neglects the fact that Wikipedia and other services still need to pay for servers, storage, power and other fixed costs. Today's news that the New York Times is cutting grants by its foundation to non-profits and other educational institutions is a reminder of how vulnerable a portion of the Internet ecosystem is to the financial crisis, not to mention exposure to the Bernie Madoffs of the...

ACT!for America presents “Citizens in Action” Training Conference See presentations by Brigitte Gabriel, best-selling author of Because They Hate and They Must Be Stopped and President of ACT! for America; Guy Rodgers, Executive Director, ACT! for America; and Kelly Cook, National Field Director, ACT! for America. · Learn why radical Islam threatens not only your safety and security, but your freedom as well. · Find out why thet typical “Western” response to radical Islam does not work – and what does. · Discover how one person can truly make a difference in combating the spread of radical Islam. · Learn...

The Internet has been around for quite a while, but until the spread of web browsers in the 1990s, the collection of computers and networks was primarily used by the government and academia. The web browser brought the power of the Internet to "regular" people, and a whole era was launched. Shopping online? Even the word "online" didn't exist a few years ago. In addition to shopping, social networking, e-mail checking, and on and on, actual, real work can be performed as well. There are many new sources of information which are quickly replacing the "old school" standbys such as...

Wikipedia has a page called "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories" (en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories) that smears those who have questions about where Obama was born and whether he's eligible to be president as fringe conspiracy theorists. The section at that page discussing a 1982 law that lets those born outside HI get valid birth certs falsely implies that Obama wouldn't be eligible under that law. However, the law was clearly intended to be open to those born before 1982. That doesn't mean that Obama did in fact take advantage of that law. It does mean, however, the Wikipedia has been misleading about...

Hey XXXXX I am being smeared by the pro-Obama media machine and could really use your help in setting the record straight on a totally fabricated story about me that is now receiving mainstream media attention. Can you please blog the truth about this at No Quarter? It would help me a lot. The episode started two days ago, when I reported Obama's Wikipedia page was being scrubbed of criticism. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=91114 The article was picked up by Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,507244,00.html, the London Telepgraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/wikipedia/4965132/Barack-Obama-receives-preferential-treatment-on-Wikipedia-report-claims.html) and was linked on Drudge. My article noted that WND monitored Obama's Wikipedia page for one...

Even Matt Drudge gave up on the faux Barack Obama birth-certificate story last fall. But out-there conservative website WorldNetDaily is keeping the fable alive — with a Wikipedia fiction of its own. Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily's Jerusalem bureau chief and a frequent Fox News interviewee, took a break from covering the Middle East to fixate on the question of why Wikipedia's volunteer editors were supposedly censoring edits to Obama's Wikipedia page. According to Klein, "one user" was rebuffed when he tried to add the following paragraph to the page: There have been some doubts about whether Obama was born in the...

I don't like to spend my time chronicling the lies of the Barack Obama media machine. But sometimes it is imperative in this ugly age of derivative, copycat, gotcha-style, blame-the-messenger pseudo-journalism – where anyone sitting in the comfort of their easy chair thinks he has license to smear the few who actually take boots-on-the-ground reporting seriously. This is one of those moments. It's no secret to anyone that much of the establishment press in the U.S., and even worldwide, is little more than an amen chorus for the man in the White House. And there is a concerted effort under...

What a tangled Web Wikipedia users can weave. Critics noted over the weekend that President Obama's page on the free online encyclopedia had been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, and to allow only a brief citation of his connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright — though pages for Ayers and Wright are heavily peppered with references to the president, including subsections on both pages that detail their past affiliations with him. The lone mention of Wright on Obama's page appears in a section on his family and personal life; it...

So much for Wikipedia’s credibility. According to WorldNetDaily, the online entry for Barack Obama is quickly and continuously censored to make sure the president appears to be scandal-free. Obama’s current Wikipedia entry paints a remarkably positive picture of the president. The most controversial parts of his life, including Rev. Jeremiah Wright and terrorist pal Bill Ayers aren’t even mentioned. The controversy regarding Obama’s eligibility to serve as president is also ignored. To make matters even worse,

Wikipedia users have scrubbed all references to homegrown terrorist William Ayers and the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright from Barack Obama's entry at the online encyclopedia. Apparently, any information posted about Ayers or Wright in the text of the Obama biography is not only immediately taken down, but the offending user is banned for three days. Such was revealed by World Net Daily moments ago: The entire Wikipedia entry on Obama seems to be heavily promotional toward the U.S. president. It contains nearly no criticism or controversy, including appropriate mention of important issues where relevant. For example, the current paragraph on...

Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" mega-site written and edited entirely by its users, has been deleting within minutes any mention of eligibility issues surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, with administrators kicking off anyone who writes about the subject, WND has learned. A perusal through Obama's current Wikipedia entry finds a heavily guarded, mostly glowing biography about the U.S. president. Some of Obama's most controversial past affiliations, including with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers, are not once mentioned, even though those associations received much news media attention and served as dominant themes during the presidential elections last year....

Several years ago, I embarked on a social experiment - and it has already taught me much about the Web, the eccentricities of social networks, and about the likelihood of my own historic legacy. And it’s all come from Wikipedia. I’ve followed the social encyclopedia almost from the beginning. And, in fact, early on I wrote one of these columns in support of the value of Wikipedia in the face of claims about its trustworthiness from the likes of Encyclopedia Britannica. What I said at the time was that at least you could see Wikipedia’s biases, and there were transparent...

Disagreeable and closed to new ideas - that's the picture that emerges of contributors to community-curated encyclopaedia Wikipedia from a survey of their psychological attributes. Led by Yair Amichai-Hamburger of the Sammy Ofer School of Communication in Herzliya, Israel, a team of psychologists surveyed 69 Israeli contributors to the popular online encyclopedia, comparing them with a sample of 70 students matched for age and intensity of internet use. All were given a short questionnaire called Real-Me, which tries to determine whether people prefer to express themselves in the real world or online, and a personality survey that gave ratings for...

Jump to: navigation, search Israel VS Islamo Arab campaign of Genocide.Israel has always faced Arab genocide, To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be reminded [1]CLEAR GOAL OF GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN SINCE THE 1920s Contents 1 1920s2 19673 Current 3.1 Palestinian Arabs3.2 Hezbollah3.3 Ahmadinejad 1920s The Hebron Massacre of 1929, Thousands of Arabs descended from Har Hebron, shouting "Kill the Jews!" in Arabic [2]This was not the first mass racist attack by Arabs against unarmed civilian Jews in British Mandate ‘Palestine,’ nor would it be the last attempted extermination. [3].The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, the Mufti and Hitler, Nazism...

Wikipedia has an entry titled: "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories" It's a hack job. Here's an example. They never point to the evidence that was generated by IsraelInsider.org when they analyzed the electronic copy. The release of the certificate prompted a fresh round of conspiracy theorizing. Some critics asserted that the certificate had been digitally forged with Adobe Photoshop and lacked a stamped seal of the state and demanded that Obama release his original 1961 birth certificate.[5] Here's another example of extreme bias, bringing in the old saw that the mother would have had to know he would seek the...

Journal to require authors to post in the free online encyclopaedia.Wikipedia, meet RNA. Anyone submitting to a section of the journal RNA Biology will, in the future, be required to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes the work. The journal will then peer review the page before publishing it in Wikipedia. The initiative is a collaboration between the journal and the RNA family database (Rfam) consortium led by the UK Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton. "The novelty is that for the first time it creates a link between Wikipedia and traditional journal publishing, with its peer-review element," says...

The party's chapters elected or helped to elect dozens of candidates, including Barack Obama's 1996 run for the Illinois State Senate. [1] About the New Party: http://web.archive.org/web/19961112083535/www.newparty.org/about_the_np.html

I don't know how long Barack Obama's name will remain on the Wikipedia page for the New Party entry but it looks like it was added yesterday after a bit of struggle. By not so strange coincidence, your humble correspondent also provided evidence yesterday that Obama was a member of the socialist New Party. First the description of the New Party in Wikipedia: The New Party was a third political party in the United States that tried to re-introduce the practice of electoral fusion as a political strategy for labor unions and community organizing groups. In electoral fusion, the same...

There is a lot of activity on wikipedia surrounding the Berg lawsuit. After noticing 25 edits in the last 2 days for section "Allegations against US presidential candidates regarding citizenship", I discovered a number of questionable citations that needed scrutiny. I successfully deleted an extraordinarily poor example of a citation today. After checking later I found the same citation was re-added by user Tradewyn. I wonder why they are so concerned? The article is here.

Franklin Raines From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Franklin Delano Raines (born January 14, 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae who served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. He is currently employed by Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign as an economic adviser. The son of a Seattle janitor [1], Raines graduated from Harvard University, Harvard Law School; and Magdalen College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Raines was of age during the Vietnam War, but performed no military service. He served in the Carter Administration as...

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From the always objective Wikipedia: (Click images to enlarge) Mind you, this is just page one of the revisions. The rewrites just since September 12th go on for pages.So there is an advantage to being computer savvy after all.

The wiki Pan - Arabism page A Jordanian Arab 'Contrieng' (that some how has no idea about history, that 1800's & 1900's attack on Jews by Arabism' nationalism' is long before any lame excuses connecting it to the M.E. conflict, or other gross misinformation trying to alter PEW's polling that shows anti Jewish racism among Jordanian Arabs, where 100% viewed ANY Jews unfavorably trying to charactorize it as 'anti-zionist-occupation') & a Kurd 'KhoiKhoi' (who should know better after Saddam's Arabist anti-Kurd genocide campaign or in light of Syrian anti-Kurdish policy, then again Islamic bigotry among a Muslim rradical that...

Wikipedia doesn't bother to mention the terrorist attack 7 years ago on its "It happened today" page.

Blogger William Beutler ("Blog P.I.") accuses Barack Obama supporter Stephen Ewen of encouraging fellow activists to vandalize the Wikipedia entry on Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Wikipedia is the open-source (meaning anyone can edit it) online encyclopedia that was the site of a vicious battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton supporters earlier this year. Beutler notes that Ewen wrote on an Obama campaign listserv called Obama Rapid Response that the section of the Palin entry dealing with her political positions needed reworking. If anyone is so inclined to tussle at Wikipedia, the following article is in need of some...

I was looking for some info on Sarah Palin this morning, and did a search for a wikipedia article using Ixquick.com. When I clicked on the link (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin), I got a picture of Sarah and a bunch of racist and obscene stuff. I thought you fellow Freepers would want to know her Wikipedia posting is being messed with. Perhaps you know how to fix it. Thanks.

Voters do this and it needs work, so please forget your bias. The attacks against Palin are constant and sometimes nasty. You can do a little activism at home at your computer. The main Sarah Palin description of who she is at the moment isn’t too bad. But the sub categories are rather damaging. Such as this one: Political positions of Sarah Palin The whole pages is full of condescending and just very bias remarks such as this:”Endangered species she opposed the listing of polar bears as an endangered species, claiming that she had based her position on a comprehensive...