“Our internal numbers don’t confirm all the claims made. We do agree that the number of editors has stabilised, as one would expect, since we're already the fifth most popular website on the internet...[however] our own data shows that the number of active editors across all projects is stable – i.e. the new editors are replaced at about the same pace as existing editors are leaving.”
Mr Wales was keen to stress the numbers had stabilized because Wikipedia was so large. “You can’t keep growing forever, there are only so many people on the internet,” he explained.
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The site came under fire recently when it announced new measures which would enable a core group of volunteer editors to adjudicate on any changes made to a living person's Wikipedia before those modifications were published.
...new measures, known as “flagged revisions", which are set to be adopted in December, were designed to combat the growing problem of vandalism on the site.
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Mr Wales denied there had been any “material changes” to the editing rules, and in an interview with The Telegraph last week dismissed the concerns that the web encyclopaedia has changed its ethos...People used to have to register to make these sort of changes to high profile Wikipedia pages and then wait a few days. Now they can upload the changes without registering and wait to see if they are uploaded.”
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
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