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George W. Bush entry at Wikipedia

Over at Many2Many, I raise the question: Why do all wikipedia articles sound the same while every blog sounds different? Then I semi-discuss an answer by looking at the current struggle over the entry on George W. Bush. It’s been frozen because people had been editing it and revising the edits way too often. If you visited the page you never knew if you’d be reading about Bush the Strong or Bush the Demonic…

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2 Responses to “George W. Bush entry at Wikipedia”

  1. David – take a look at Martin Wattenberg’s latest data visualization masterpiece – HistoryFlow. (http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/) It’s his study of how a particular high-traffic wikipedia article gets edited and re-edited. Very interesting.

  2. The really interesting part is the dispute resolution process that’s been started there. Encyclopedifying current events: Wasn’t it bound to end up like this?

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