Podcast appearances and mentions of andrew lih

A mini RF modulator for your mini VCS, getting freaky in high school, Atari is back! Again! and the MEGA65 sells out. All this plus our community question of the week on This Week in Retro!

In this first episode of the podcast, our intrepid hosts Rebecca (Wikipedia editor with too much time on her hands) and Fionnuala (Not a wikipedia editor) explore what Wikipedia is and what are the fundamental "rules" that govern it. Even if there is some debate over the existence of such rules Rebecca interviews Andrew Lih, the veteran Wikipedian known as Fuzheado and author of The Wikipedia Revolution. And the hosts introduce the segment "Wiki Hero" with an interesting story about Scots' Language Wikipedia. Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/

“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” The urgency behind this sentiment is stronger than ever at a time when misinformation is everywhere. So how has Wikipedia, famous for allowing anyone to edit, become a paragon for truth? Andrew Lih, author of “The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia” and the Wikimedia Strategist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, breaks down where Wikipedia came from, how it works, and where it could be headed.

“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” The urgency behind this sentiment is stronger than ever at a time when misinformation is everywhere. So how has Wikipedia, famous for allowing anyone to edit, become a paragon for truth? Andrew Lih, author of “The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia” and the Wikimedia Strategist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, breaks down where Wikipedia came from, how it works, and where it could be headed.

In our first special episode in ENglish we meet Andrew Lih, one of the four that has attended every Wikimania ever.

This week, three former guests of the podcast discuss some of the changes going on at universities and journalism schools and what the future of journalism education might look like.

Perhaps nothing demonstrates the power of the internet and thereby the power of a democratic approach to problem solving like Wikipedia. In The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created The World’s Greatest Encyclopedia, Andrew Lih lays bare for us the tremendous power of ordinary people to do something truly incredible when they come together. While traditional encyclopedias like Encylopedia Britannica have relied on Nobel Laureates and other highly-respected professionals to write their articles, Wikipedia has placed its faith in ordinary people and the wisdom of the crowds. In just over a decade, the results have been astounding. With over 30 million articles in 287 languages, Wikipedia dwarfs all other encyclopedias and a 2005 investigation by the highly-respected journal Nature found that Wikipedia’s accuracy was almost exactly the same as Encyclopedia Britannica. In this interview, Andrew Lih shares with us how he became fascinated by the site, how the site has developed and what the success of Wikipedia means for everything from government spying to democracy to digital protectionism in China. More than a lens into the world's future, this interview will restore your faith in humanity.The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created The World’s Greatest Encyclopedia is available on Amazon.Andrew Lih’s website is http://www.andrewlih.com and you can follow him on twitter @fuzheado.

WASHINGTON - Andrew Lih has always been interested in how people communicate and he's found himself a front row seat, taking part in journalism's digital conversion. Lih was on the ground floor of digital journalism education â€" suggesting to Columbia University that they teach how to write and design for the Web. The school was the first to offer a Web-based journalism program, Lih says, in 1995. After spending time teaching in Hong Kong, Lih was looking for the next big thing and heard about a site called Wikipedia. His reaction to the initial concept is one many of us can related to. "That sounds wacky. That sounds like it would be a complete garbage dump of content," Lih says. But he quickly realized the power of Wikipedia as a rolling archive of what is happening â€" a living transparent document. He says every edit to every page is monitored. "It's actually a great model for news organizations to look at at least saying that every single edit can be inspected and audited by someone else," Lih says. Interesting ethical discussions come up about how to edit pages in the discussion pages, Lih says. He offers Bradley Manning's recent name change as an example. "They were taking in viewpoints from the AP style guide, norms from Reuters and other folks. There was actually a very serious conversation happening behind the scenes even though most people don't see those things," he says. Lih is one of Wikipedia's 1,000 administrators and an assistant professor at American University in Washington, D.C. He's also the author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Â

Internet Censorship in China Madeline Earp of the Committee to Protect Journalists and Andrew Lih of the USC Annenberg School on restrictions on web use in China. Plus: can donations from individuals save journalism, and the public schools?

The Wikipedia Revolution is the first narrative account of the remarkable success story of the "encyclopedia anyone can edit." Andrew Lih, a Wikipedia editor/administrator, academic and journalist, tells how the Internet's free culture community inspired its creation in 2001, and how legions of volunteers have emerged to create over 10 million articles in over 50 languages. The book recounts colorful behind-the-scenes stories of how obsessive map editors, automated software robots, and warring factions have come to shape a complex online community of knowledge gatherers. Learn about the historical underpinnings of Wikipedia: how a Hawaiian vacation and a fringe piece software from Apple Computer inspired the wiki concept and realized the original read-and-write capabilities of the Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web. While Wikipedia has become firmly planted at the top of Google's search results, what are the challenges as sum of all human knowledge becomes more complete, and its problem is not growth, but reliability? Should we be putting so much trust in a resource created by anonymous nobodies?