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post Mon 25th July 2011, 3:13pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />You can now rate [b]Wikipedia entries. Not everyone is pleased[/b]
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The 10-year-old crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia has cranked up its new rating system as a way to lure more people into jumping from readers to editors. After floating small-scale experiments with a star rating system for months, Wikipedia has ...

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post Mon 25th July 2011, 4:34pm
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I very nearly spat out my beverage when I read this quote: “You can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate,” said Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb.

The article helpfully provided a link (broken) to that article. ReadWriteWeb (which really should know better), also rolls out the Nature-study-says-WP-is-better-than-Brittanica canard. Article is here.
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post Mon 25th July 2011, 5:09pm
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I have publicly called Marshall Kirkpatrick "one of the most facile reporters on ReadWriteWeb."

I continue to stand by my assessment.
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