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  • Wikipedia : 250 comptes fermés car payés pour des articles de commande
    http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/wikipedia-250-comptes-fermes-car-payes-pour-des-articles-de-commande-39794973.

    Tous les contributeurs de Wikipedia ont-il à cœur de contribuer de manière neutre et sans chercher à retirer un bénéfice financier des articles qu’ils intègrent dans l’encyclopédie en ligne ? Pas tous non et c’est pourquoi d’ailleurs Wikipedia vient de fermer plus de 250 comptes éditeurs.

    « Il semble qu’un certain nombre de comptes utilisateurs – peut-être même plusieurs centaines – auraient été rémunérés pour écrire des articles sur Wikipedia faisant la promotion d’organisations ou de produits » a expliqué dans un billet de blog la directrice exécutive de la fondation Wikimedia Foundation, Sue Gardner.

    Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner’s response to paid advocacy editing and sockpuppetry
    http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/21/sue-gardner-response-paid-advocacy-editing

    Editors on the English Wikipedia are currently investigating allegations of suspicious edits and sockpuppetry (i.e. using online identities for purposes of deception). At this point, as reported, it looks like a number of user accounts — perhaps as many as several hundred — may have been paid to write articles on Wikipedia promoting organizations or products, and have been violating numerous site policies and guidelines, including prohibitions against sockpuppetry and undisclosed conflicts of interest. As a result, Wikipedians aiming to protect the projects against non-neutral editing have blocked or banned more than 250 user accounts.

    #pr #com #washing

  • Wikipedia et sexisme, des liens signalés par wikipediocracy

    Wikipedia – Men and children first | Wikipediocracy
    http://wikipediocracy.com/2013/01/22/wikipedia-men-and-children-first

    Wikipedia – Men and children first

    By Nathalie Collida and friends

    It’s no secret that Wikipedia has a shortage of female editors. According to a survey commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2011, a mere 8.5 per cent of the people contributing to the online encyclopaedia identify as women. In a recent op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times, Sue Gardner – who became the figurehead of Wikipedia when she signed up as Executive Director with the Wikimedia Foundation 5 years ago – tried to explain this by focusing on what she perceives as the “geeky, tech-centric, intellectually confident, thick-skinned and argumentative” nature of the average Wikipedian. Outside observers, among them Web2.0 expert Joseph Reagle, add another component to the mix: good old-fashioned sexism. His latest study, “’Free as in sexist’ Free culture and the gender gap” examines how the combative locker-room culture of Wikipedia’s male contributors – a good portion of whom are teens and pre-teens – makes women less likely to participate. While Reagle’s journal article relies heavily on previously published analyses and interviews with Wikipedians, we’ve decided to take a look under the bonnet of Ms Gardner’s million-dollar on-line empire, with examples taken not just from articles but also from areas of the encyclopaedia and its sister projects often overlooked by its readers: the talk pages of articles and editors as well as various discussion boards.

    A feminist’s Wikipedia biography | Wikipediocracy
    http://wikipediocracy.com/2013/01/29/a-feminists-wikipedia-biography

    A feminist’s Wikipedia biography

    By Andreas Kolbe

    Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic and video blogger whose work focuses on sexism in video games. Her video blog, Feminist Frequency, is used as reading material in numerous universities’ women’s studies courses. Last year Sarkeesian became the target of a sustained harassment campaign because of her Kickstarter project, Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. The attacks on her were coordinated from various video game forums.

    Sarkeesian was subjected to a torrent of hate on YouTube – thousands of abusive and often sexually explicit hate messages. At the same time, her Wikipedia biography was vandalised. Sarkeesian herself spoke of harassment via Wikipedia vandalism.

    Wikipedia’s culture of sexism – it’s not just for novelists. | Wikipediocracy
    http://wikipediocracy.com/2013/04/29/wikipedias-culture-of-sexism-its-not-just-for-novelists

    Wikipedia’s culture of sexism – it’s not just for novelists.

    by Nathalie Collida and Andreas Kolbe
    With research contributions from Delicious carbuncle and Eric Barbour

    Amanda Filipacchi’s New York Times article about Wikipedia’s ghettoization of female novelists finally shone the spotlight on some of the rampant sexism that pervades almost every corner of the online “encyclopaedia”. Filipacchi said she had “noticed something strange on Wikipedia”:

    It appears that gradually, over time, editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one, alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American Women Novelists” subcategory. So far, female authors whose last names begin with A or B have been most affected, although many others have, too. The intention appears to be to create a list of “American Novelists” on Wikipedia that is made up almost entirely of men.

  • A Driving Force Behind Wikipedia Will Step Down - NYTimes.com

    http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/a-driving-force-behind-wikipedia-to-step-down/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130328

    Sue Gardner, who oversaw a period of rapid growth and evolution of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, said she would step down as executive director of the nonprofit foundation that runs it.

    In an interview on Wednesday, Ms. Gardner, 45, said she would leave in roughly six months, after the Wikimedia Foundation board had picked a successor.

    #médias-sociaux #sites-collaboratifs #wikipedia

  • Wikipedia’s fund-raising : Free but not easy | The Economist
    http://www.economist.com/node/21536580

    The online encyclopedia needs its users’ money and volunteers’ time. Gaining the first is the easier task

    Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, says she wants to break down the “psychological barrier” between reading and editing, so that improving an article feels like a natural extension of reading it.

    from @fil à qui je reprends beaucoup de références sans toujours avoir les moyens ou l’occasion de le signaler