Public Radio's On the Media has a story segment this week of some interest to readers here. Brooke Gladstone interviews Eve Fairbanks, Associate Editor of
The New Republic about how editors on Wikipedia are shaping articles about candidates in the 2008 Presidential Election.
QUOTE(Story Blurb)
Editors in ChiefFor supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama the candidates' Wikipedia pages have become a key election battleground. The up-to-the-second nature of user-generated, user-corrected content means that an editor’s work is never done.
The New Republic's Eve Fairbanks
explains the political stakes of wiki-work.
The audio segment can be accessed from
On the Media's web site or
downloaded as an MP3 file.
The original article by Eve Fairbanks in
The New Republic is entitled
Wiki Woman and includes reader comments.