As global conflicts lurch into the second half of 2014, the nature of their online documentation is of great importance, and the Wikimedia Foundation bears great responsibility. Satirist Nimrod Kamer put their staffers to the test in a report for RT. Kamer reports for RT from Wikimania, the annual Wikipedia festival to probe the founders over locked pages, ‘article vandalism’, and the deficit of emojis on Wikipedia articles posing questions to the foundation’s chiefs and using examples from his own page edits to illustrate the fallibility of the online encyclopedia.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:25:02 +0000