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What is Wikipedia? Thanks for asking! OK so everybody already knows what Wikipedia is, but let's look closer at its history, how it works and the limits of this collaborative, volunteer-produced internet encyclopedia. Nowadays, Wikipedia has over 55 million articles in over 300 different languages. But everything started with a single post titled Hello World, published by American founder Jimmy Wales. He invited internet users to join his encyclopedia project with the radical aim of changing how knowledge was created and shared online. That's a pretty ambitious objective! The main novelty was allowing anyone to contribute and edit the encyclopedia's articles, regardless of education or social origin. So with Wikipedia, knowledge on a subject isn't produced according to some kind of hierarchy whereby a minority of experts have all the control. Instead we place trust in collective intelligence. Editors, also known as Wikipedians, combine their efforts on a voluntary basis, to help the collaborative community to exist, with no director. Can the information really be considered reliable if anyone can contribute? Interestingly, the sheer number of contributors is seen as a guarantee of Wikipedia's reliability, even if they work on a voluntary basis. The more editors there are, the greater the number of peer reviews and edits which can be made to reach the general consensus on any given subject. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. First Broadcast: 28/1/2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Or rather – the tens of millions of editors who have contributed and updated its pages. More than 100,000 so-called "Wikipedians" have done so in the past month alone.Debate often arises among editors. For example, a couple months ago, editors thrashed out where the two words "convicted felon" should appear on Donald Trump's page. In the first few sentences? Or buried further down?What does the future of the site hold?Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
What makes something notable? What kind of sources are needed for a thing to have a Wikipedia article about it? These philosophical issues are discussed by volunteer Wikipedia editors constantly to ensure that the non-profit encyclopedia is accurate and relevant. But a community of self-described "Road Geeks" has been at odds with Wikipedia's standards for some time. They're on a mission to catalog every road in North America, but other Wiki editors claim that this content is too granular, or has no secondary (journalistic) sources. But why would these sources exist when roads just...exist? And when should primary research — looking at a map, or even out your own window! — be considered for inclusion in the world's largest knowledge base? Tired of having their road articles deleted or modified, the Road Geeks have now "seceded" from Wikipedia to create their own Wiki on a sympathetic site called AARoads. While this may seem like a bunch of semantic nerds fighting on the Internet, it actually has fascinating implications for who gets to decide what is important, and what Wikipedia is supposed to be. Alli and Lindsey talk with Ben, a longtime Wikipedia editor and road enthusiast who is part of the movement to carve out a home for the historical and cultural value of road knowledge online. You can find the new wiki here: https://wiki.aaroads.com/ Take our quick, anonymous survey to help us make the show the best it can be! https://form.jotform.com/232267699994075 Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1P Join the 2G1P Discord community: http://discord.gg/2g1p Join the 2G1P Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2girls1podcast/ Email us: 2G1Podcast@gmail.com Call the show and leave a message! (347) 871-6548 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Education Headline RoundupIt's been a busy week in education news as students and educators in the U.S. head back to school following summer break. Here are the headlines in this week's edu news roundup:The Biden administration is once again attempting to follow through on campaign promises to alleviate student debt. Details of the SAVE program are discussed.The Boys & Girls Club of America has released a new study revealing troubling trends in levels of bullying and cyberbulling in American schools.The College Board is in hot water over revelations that it sends student SAT scores and GPAs to Facebook and TikTok through tracking pixels (advertising technology).The Columbia County Library in Dayton, Washington, is facing a possible dissolution vote on November 7th after a series of book challenges.Governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts announced a new program that would make community college tuition-free for residents without a prior post-secondary degree.Wikipedia and the Quest for a Universal EncyclopediaWikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. Maintained by a large cohort of volunteer editors, the free, online encyclopedia aims to make “the sum of all human knowledge” available to the world. The project of Wikipedia sparks a number of questions of interest to the modern educator, such as: What is expertise? What events, locations, objects, people, artworks, and inventions etc. are noteworthy? What exactly is a neutral point of view? How does living contemporaneously to events of historical significance impact our ability to evaluate them accurately?Is Wikipedia Trustworthy?Wikipedia is a living document, an undulating sea of interconnected articles, references, policies, and end users. Though neutrality is a guiding Wikipedian philosophy, vandalism does sometimes occur, and mistakes are sometimes made. (Studies have shown, however, that Wikipedia is nearly as accurate as traditional print reference resources, such as Encyclopedia Britannica.) We'll investigate the epistemological challenges inherent to a collaborative and ever-evolving repository of knowledge. We'll also uncover some startling demographic statistics about Wikipedia's editors, who aren't as representative of the average world citizen as you might think.The Impact of AI and Other Modern Internet Forces on WikipediaThe rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact on Wikipedia. AI can be used to generate content, summarize articles, and identify vandalism. However, AI also poses a threat to the integrity of the content of Wikipedia, as it often introduces inaccuracies, fabrications, and “hallucinations,” some of which can be extremely difficult to detect. Other modern Internet forces, such as deepfakes and misinformation, are also disrupting Wikipedia's vast knowledge experiment.Join us as we investigate the history and impact of one of the world's top 10 websites.Sources & Resources:TED Talk - The Birth of WikipediaThe Independent - Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia by Mayank AggarwalYouTube - The White House: President Biden Announces the SAVE Plan for Student Loan BorrowersNPR - Borrowers can now apply for new, income-based student loan repayment by Sequoia Carrillo and Cory TurnerBoys & Girls Clubs of America - Youth Right NowAxios - Students face new school year with jump in bullying by April RubinGizmodo - The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook GPAs and Details About SAT Scores by Thomas GermainWBUR - Community college is now free for Mass. residents 25 and older. Millions qualify by Max LarkinKNKX NPR - Rural Washington library could be nation's first to dissolve after book challenges by Courtney FlattThe Book Loft - The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James GleickWikipedia - WikipediaWikipedia - Help: Introduction to Policies and GuidelinesWikipedia - What Wikipedia is NotTechnology Review - The Decline of Wikipedia by Tom SimoniteDuke University Press - Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness by Michael MandibergAljazeera - How are Wikipedians fighting gender bias online? HBR - Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia? by Nicole TorresVice - AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart by Claire WoodcockThe Next Web - UK plan to police internet may be unlawful, force Wikipedia shutdown by Thomas MacaulayUK Parliament - Online Safety BillThe Economic Times - How accurate is Wikipedia's content? Governance, Organization, and Democracy on the Internet: The Iron Law and the Evolution of Wikipedia by Piotr Konieczny
Jerry Lawson was an engineer who invented the video game cartridge! His life and invention are celebrated by your hosts Victor Varnado, KSN and Rachel Teichman, LMSW and are joined by special guest reader Sherry Antoine, a true Wikipedian herself and is Executive Director of AfroCROWD, and the lead organizer of the Wikipedians of the Caribbean Usergoup! Produced by Victor Varnado & Rachel Teichman Full Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawson_(engineer) WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT ON PATREON!https://www.patreon.com/wikilistenpodcast Find us on social media! https://www.facebook.com/WikiListen Instagram @WikiListen Twitter @Wiki_Listen Youtube Get bonus content on Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Various recent developments remind many of us that we live in an information landscape dystopia.
In 2020, during the nadir of the pandemic, Annie Rauwerda began posting strange, humorous, and obscure Wikipedia entries on social media. She dubbed her project Depths of Wikipedia, and after several hundred posts on Instagram and Twitter, she began to amass a following of fellow Wikipedians. More than two years later, Depths of Wikipedia has more than one million followers and a touring live comedy show. In addition to professionally browsing Wikipedia, Annie works with the Wikimedia Foundation on a number of exciting projects. In this interview, Annie describes her spectacular rise to Wiki-fame, her burgeoning career as a comedian, and the future of the internet. Depths of Wikipedia is a bright spot in our fraught social media landscape. Follow Annie's work on Instagram (@depthsofwikipedia) and Twitter (@depthsofwiki). You can also find her other projects, live shows, and a submission form for Wiki finds here: https://linktr.ee/depthsofwiki... Annie Rauwerda is a writer and the creator of Depths of Wikipedia (Twitter: @anniierau). Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In 2020, during the nadir of the pandemic, Annie Rauwerda began posting strange, humorous, and obscure Wikipedia entries on social media. She dubbed her project Depths of Wikipedia, and after several hundred posts on Instagram and Twitter, she began to amass a following of fellow Wikipedians. More than two years later, Depths of Wikipedia has more than one million followers and a touring live comedy show. In addition to professionally browsing Wikipedia, Annie works with the Wikimedia Foundation on a number of exciting projects. In this interview, Annie describes her spectacular rise to Wiki-fame, her burgeoning career as a comedian, and the future of the internet. Depths of Wikipedia is a bright spot in our fraught social media landscape. Follow Annie's work on Instagram (@depthsofwikipedia) and Twitter (@depthsofwiki). You can also find her other projects, live shows, and a submission form for Wiki finds here: https://linktr.ee/depthsofwiki... Annie Rauwerda is a writer and the creator of Depths of Wikipedia (Twitter: @anniierau). Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications
In 2020, during the nadir of the pandemic, Annie Rauwerda began posting strange, humorous, and obscure Wikipedia entries on social media. She dubbed her project Depths of Wikipedia, and after several hundred posts on Instagram and Twitter, she began to amass a following of fellow Wikipedians. More than two years later, Depths of Wikipedia has more than one million followers and a touring live comedy show. In addition to professionally browsing Wikipedia, Annie works with the Wikimedia Foundation on a number of exciting projects. In this interview, Annie describes her spectacular rise to Wiki-fame, her burgeoning career as a comedian, and the future of the internet. Depths of Wikipedia is a bright spot in our fraught social media landscape. Follow Annie's work on Instagram (@depthsofwikipedia) and Twitter (@depthsofwiki). You can also find her other projects, live shows, and a submission form for Wiki finds here: https://linktr.ee/depthsofwiki... Annie Rauwerda is a writer and the creator of Depths of Wikipedia (Twitter: @anniierau). Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society
In 2020, during the nadir of the pandemic, Annie Rauwerda began posting strange, humorous, and obscure Wikipedia entries on social media. She dubbed her project Depths of Wikipedia, and after several hundred posts on Instagram and Twitter, she began to amass a following of fellow Wikipedians. More than two years later, Depths of Wikipedia has more than one million followers and a touring live comedy show. In addition to professionally browsing Wikipedia, Annie works with the Wikimedia Foundation on a number of exciting projects. In this interview, Annie describes her spectacular rise to Wiki-fame, her burgeoning career as a comedian, and the future of the internet. Depths of Wikipedia is a bright spot in our fraught social media landscape. Follow Annie's work on Instagram (@depthsofwikipedia) and Twitter (@depthsofwiki). You can also find her other projects, live shows, and a submission form for Wiki finds here: https://linktr.ee/depthsofwiki... Annie Rauwerda is a writer and the creator of Depths of Wikipedia (Twitter: @anniierau). Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture
In 2020, during the nadir of the pandemic, Annie Rauwerda began posting strange, humorous, and obscure Wikipedia entries on social media. She dubbed her project Depths of Wikipedia, and after several hundred posts on Instagram and Twitter, she began to amass a following of fellow Wikipedians. More than two years later, Depths of Wikipedia has more than one million followers and a touring live comedy show. In addition to professionally browsing Wikipedia, Annie works with the Wikimedia Foundation on a number of exciting projects. In this interview, Annie describes her spectacular rise to Wiki-fame, her burgeoning career as a comedian, and the future of the internet. Depths of Wikipedia is a bright spot in our fraught social media landscape. Follow Annie's work on Instagram (@depthsofwikipedia) and Twitter (@depthsofwiki). You can also find her other projects, live shows, and a submission form for Wiki finds here: https://linktr.ee/depthsofwiki... Annie Rauwerda is a writer and the creator of Depths of Wikipedia (Twitter: @anniierau). Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities
Have you noticed anything about most of the Wikipedians we've met so far? One little thing they all have in common? Katie has. We've only heard two women. Two women and eight men. That's not great, but it's normal. There are deep, systemic problems with Wikipedia: 90% of editors are male, and they're overwhelmingly white. Only 5.5% of all articles on Wikipedia are to do with the entire continent of Africa. So Katie's asking, why? What does this mean for the 'sum total of all human knowledge'? And can anything be done? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to episode 230 ("TBA") of the EdTech Situation Room from September 9, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Google's new ChromeOS notetaking web app, Cursive, Microsoft's addition of "Reading" to MS Teams, and Windows 11 CPU requirements for older computers. Apple's upcoming September 14th iPhone event and Twitter powered notification service, a call to stop "source shaming" the use of WikiPedia in academic research, and the regulatory effort in Germany to required 7 years of smartphone operating system updates were highlighted. Also on the Google front, an op-ed advocating for a 'fix' to auto-installs on new Chromebooks, a UK study highlighting the high frequency of extremist views among students in schools, and a report revealing continued problems with AI-powered facial recognition for black men were discussed. Additional topics included the start of "Super Follower Subscriptions" on Twitter, the expected dramatic reduction in price for Starlink Internet connectivity, Starlink's projected expansion of production, and Logitech's new technology to improve security for wireless computer peripherals. Geeks of the Week included the recent Angry Planet podcast episode, "Space: Final Frontier or Billionaires Playground," the web advertising and data harvesting demo site how-i-experience-web-today.com, and the subscription-based iOS / WatchOS app, SleepWatch. Please see our shownotes for links to all these articles and resources! Our show was live streamed and archived simultaneously on YouTube Live as well as our Facebook Live page via StreamYard.com, and compressed to a smaller video version (about 100MB) on AmazonS3 using Handbrake software. Please follow us on Twitter @edtechSR for updates, and join us LIVE on Wednesday nights (normally) if you can at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific or 3 am UTC. All shownotes are available on http://edtechSR.com/links. Stay savvy and safe!
Jordan researches the world of people who, well, research just about everything. Brenna says they're the backbone of society. Unrelatedly, does anyone want to make us a Wikipedia page? Do you have an obscure subculture we should know about, or just want to ask us a question? Reach out to us! Instagram: @subscuritypodcast Twitter: @subscuritypod Email: subscurity@gmail.com Web: https://subscurity.com
How, oh how, could we live without Wikipedia? Quick backstory: Wikipedia is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the growth and development of unbiased knowledge FOR FREE. It’s also free from bias, free from advertising, free from superfluous design and the attention economy that we live in.The impressive encyclopedia was founded in 2003 and is managed by an extraordinary team of aptly named Wikipedians, and the incredible Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.Katherine joined Niko, founder of TOA, for a conversation just before she announced stepping down in February, so we didn't hold back with questions. They cover a lot: Polarisation and fake news, truth and accuracy, a new code of conduct based on respect, removal of bias and harassment, and achieving diversity!For more TOA content, subscribe to our NL (toa.berlin) and follow us on Instagram (@toaberlin), Twitter (@toaberlin), LinkedIn (toa-berlin) & Facebook (TechOpenAir).Support the show (https://paypal.me/TechOpenGmbH?locale.x=en_US)
What is Wikipedia? Thanks for asking!On January 15th 2021, Wikipedia turned 20 years old, believe it or not. Wow, thanks for making me feel old! OK so everybody already knows what Wikipedia is, but let’s look closer at its history, how it works and the limits of this collaborative, volunteer-produced internet encyclopedia.Nowadays, Wikipedia has over 55 million articles in over 300 different languages. But everything started with a single post titled Hello World, published by American founder Jimmy Wales. He invited internet users to join his encyclopedia project with the radical aim of changing how knowledge was created and shared online.That’s a pretty ambitious objective!The main novelty was allowing anyone to contribute and edit the encyclopedia’s articles, regardless of education or social origin. So with Wikipedia, knowledge on a subject isn’t produced according to some kind of hierarchy whereby a minority of experts have all the control. Instead we place trust in collective intelligence. Editors, also known as Wikipedians, combine their efforts on a voluntary basis, to help the collaborative community to exist, with no director.Can the information really be considered reliable if anyone can contribute? Interestingly, the sheer number of contributors is seen as a guarantee of Wikipedia’s reliability, even if they work on a voluntary basis. The more editors there are, the greater the number of peer reviews and edits which can be made to reach the general consensus on any given subject. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode we talk to Dr Conor Malone, an Irish doctor and Ireland's National Healthcare Wikipedian in Residence We discuss Wikipedians in Residence in more detail and look into why people should not be paid to edit. The Wikihero of the episode is the Climate Change Editing drive 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/
America’s Sacrificial Altar for Google, Wikipedia and the Pharmaceutical Empire Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, December 3, 2020 Weekly, millions of people do Google searches for advice about their personal health, a large variety of illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, etc., drug and vaccine safety, and scores of other topics affecting physical and mental health. They depend upon speed and accuracy to find the current scientifically based and clinically proven information. For the large majority of people, a personal medical condition or health crisis begins by turning exclusively to established medical, drug-based protocols. However, these treatments do not always relieve symptoms and very rarely reverse disease. Certainly they have not shown success to prevent them. Consequently, increasingly people are seeking second and third opinions. More often than not Google will take a person immediately to Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales acknowledges that “60 to 70 percent of Wikipedia’s traffic originates from Google. There is an assumption and a reasonable expectation that the information we find on Wikipedia is 1) accurate, 2) soundly researched and referenced from high quality and reliable resources, 3) written by credentialed writers and editors with expertise in the subject, 4) unbiased, and finally 5) objective and neutral. At a minimum it is assumed that content is scientifically validated and on matters of health and disease from the National Institutes of Health PubMed database. Whether it regards a pharmaceutical, surgical or radiological approach, or perhaps a more natural medical modality such as lifestyle change, nutrition, medical botanicals, Chiropractic and Chinese Medicine, information is expected to be accurately described. Then using our freedom of choice and informed consent, we can select the medical route that we believe would be most safe and effective. Unfortunately, our four-year investigation into Wikipedia's treatment of health issues reveals exactly the opposite. Many individuals with outstanding credentials are terrified of having their biographies appear on the open-source encyclopedia. Once a person's biography is added she or he will no longer have control over its content. Often they will be faced with character assassination and denigration about their careers and life's work. Their biographies are frozen as if confined in a Russian gulag for a political crime. They may seek redress by reaching out to the media; but the media also is fully compromised. They may seek open hearings on Wikipedia's backside to expose unfair behavior and misinformation but will be met either by deafening silence, ridicule or censorship. They may even seek redress from the IRS or state's attorney generals for Wikipedia's gross serial violations of its non-profit status. You enter a highly politicized ideological war and the encyclopedia’s parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), will do essentially nothing to correct errors or reprimand belligerent senior administrators and editors. Much of Wikipedia’s chaos over unreliable health information is due to a relatively small group of non-credentialed, hate-filled individuals, popularly known as Skeptics. With Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales’ full support, Skeptics have hijacked the site and converted it into their personal social media platform to condemn all non-conventional and alternative medical therapies and its practitionersand voices who are critical of the dominant drug and vaccine based medical paradigm. Since its founding certain editors realized that Wikipedia was prime game for writing entries and reshaping content as a means to proselytize their personal ideological agendas. This is due to the encyclopedia’s systemic vulnerabilities and its naïve belief that truth can emerge by reaching a faux democratic consensus. In 2006 Wikipedia editor Paul Lee, a physical therapist in California’s Central Valley and an avowed Skeptic, started to reach out to internet Skeptic groups to recruit editors to advance the Skeptic mission to ridicule and discredit all forms of complementary and alternative medicine, marginalize those who question vaccination safety and efficacy, and attack critics of corporate commercial interests adversely impacting the nation’s health such as genetically modified crops, fluoridation, sugar and junk food, etc. That year Lee posted on the International Skeptic Forum: “I would like to invite webmasters and site owners to begin editing Wikipedia and SkepticWiki. There are many subjects for skeptics to get involved with, and we really need help. There are plenty of loons out there doing the editing right now, and far too few skeptics to keep them at bay. Any coordination of efforts should be done by private email, since Wikipedia keeps a very public history and “every” little edit, and you can’t get them removed. We don’t need any accusations of a conspiracy… I hope to see more skeptics in action!” Lee also lists the subjects Skeptics should focus on, which include the National Vaccine Information Center, vaccine critics Barbara Loe Fisher and Viera Scheibner, Chiropractic, and complementary and alternative medicine. Lee happens to be the former list master for the pro-pharmaceutical and junk food friendly Quackwatch, a personal blog founded by a psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Barrett. Over time, Quackwatch and its Skeptic allies such as the Center for Inquiry and the Science Based Medicine blog have exponentially increased their presence on Wikipedia to become the single most cited references in the Skeptics’ arsenal to attack alternative medical therapies and the critics of conventional medicine’s power base. The consequence is that personal bias has trumped Wikipedia’s rules of objectivity and neutrality. New York Times best-selling human rights author Edwin Black described the dangers Wikipedia poses for social progress in his article “Wikipedia: The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge” published on the History News Network: “…. Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for dumbing down the world of knowledge. If Wikipedia’s almost unstoppable momentum continues, critics say, it threatens to quickly reverse centuries of progress… In its place would be a constant cacophony of fact and falsity that Wikipedia critics call a “law of the jungle.”[16] Writing for the Huffington Post, journalist Sam Slovick posed a question we might ask ourselves every time we click into Wikipedia. "Has Jimmy Wales' marauding encyclopedic beast finally corrupted the Internet? Has Wikipedia lost all credibility, its purported neutral system compromised by toxic editors?” The most toxic Wikipedia editors now terrorizing the encyclopedia’s pages more often than not are the anonymous non-experts and computer hacks who identify themselves with this extreme militant form of scientific materialism. They also fiercely protect their own Skeptic pages from any citable truths that may cast them in a poor light. Indeed commercial science is constantly attempting to develop new technological solutions through genetic engineering of crops, vaccines and novel patentable drugs, artificial intelligence, 5G wireless technology, etc. These are held up in the public's eyes as great achievements. On the other hand, you will rarely find Wikipedia or the mainstream media ever highlighting these technologies’ flaws and greater risks that undermine their commercial benefits; and certainly private corporations will never leak evidence about these risks and dangers. For example, we accessed Wikipedia pages for each of the vaccines recommended on the CDC's childhood immunization schedule. In every case, adverse effects were undermined and the vaccines’ benefits were inflated. Not a single entry had a complete list of adverse effects as printed on the vaccine maker's manufacturing package insert – literature that is easily accessible on the CDC's website. Nor was there to be found a list of vaccine ingredients, many of which are scientifically shown to be toxic. Consequently a visitor to any given Wikipedia vaccine page accesses a very incomplete and twisted understanding of the vaccines' actual safety and efficacy profile. We are also led to believe that if a scientific invention or a study for a new drug or vaccine appears in the peer-reviewed literature, it represents a gold standard. Consequently it is assumed that any controversy has been settled. A peer-reviewed paper becomes a scientific law unto itself if it favors tendentious interests. However, repeatedly the peer-reviewed journal system has proven to be unreliable. No decisive effort has been made to reform it. It is simply too profitable to disrupt. But the Skeptics’ distorted and biased narratives about medicine and health are only one reason to be deeply worried about the WMF’s long-term mission to bring all medical knowledge to the inhabitable world. By and large, Wikipedia Skeptics are not motivated by financial gain nor is there strong evidence of conflicts of interest with either the pharmaceutical industry or our federal health agencies. Rather the Skeptic movement is more likely motivated by a cult-like ideology that is fanatically embraced by its followers with religious zeal. Yet on the backside, WMF also has deep ties with the pharmaceutical industry and this takes us to its close relationship with Google for over a decade. The Google-WMF association is no secret. There is plenty of evidence confirming Google’s preferential treatment of Wikipedia aside from the millions of daily Google searches that bring users directly to the encyclopedia. Although Wikipedia editors take full advantage of flawed medical literature if the conclusions serve their purpose and agenda, Google, through its algorithmic modeling to censor voices challenging the medical regime’s status-quo, ignores efforts to determine whether the medical literature is bogus or not. Google’s mission is to protect the global medical regime -- not just private drug companies but also government health bodies and international organizations such as the World Health Organization. No longer should Google be perceived solely as a technological platform to promote the pharmaceutical industry’s agenda. It is also a drug company itself. During the past seven years, Google's parent company Alphabet has launched two pharmaceutical companies. In 2013, it founded Calico, headed by Genentech's former CEO Arthur Levinson. Calico operates an R&D facility in the San Francisco Bay Area for the discovery of treatments associated with age-related diseases. Two years later, Alphabet founded Verily Life Sciences (previously Google Life Sciences). Both companies partner with other drug firms, including Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, and vaccine giants Pfizer and Sanofi. In October Verily launched an aggressive multimillion dollar campaign to expand Covid-19 testing in California’s most distressed communities in 28 counties. However, some counties are starting to sever their ties with the company. In order to qualify for the program’s Covid test people are required to have a Gmail account and provide highly sensitive personal information. Alphabet’s drug companies therefore are intricately linked to Google’s ambition to gather, control and own everyone’s personal information. In 2016, Verily collaborated with the European pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to form a third company, Galvani Bioelectronics, for the development of "bioelectronic medicines." Among its initiatives are nanotechnology for drug delivery and the development of “miniaturized, implantable devices that can monitor nerve signals in the body.” Galvani’s Chairman is Moncef Siaoui, Glaxo's former chairman of its global vaccines business who now serves as Trump’s appointed chief science adviser for Operation Warp Speed. Nor should it be forgotten that Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin’s former wife Anne Wojcicki also co-founded the biotech company 23andMe to develop personal DNA testing kits. In 2018 it entered a partnership with Glaxo to expand into drug development. In January 2019, Google's president of Customer Solutions Mary Ellen Coe joined Merck's Board of Directors. Formerly working at the corporate consulting firm McKinsey and Company, her role at Google includes overseeing the firm's global advertising for contracted companies. Merck's chairman Kenneth Frazier remarked in a press release that Coe "will be a significant asset to Merck." To better appreciate the enormity of the global pharmaceutical regime now unfolding, we need to fully acknowledge this nightmarish marriage between the tech and information-based companies, such as Google and the WMF, and Big Pharma. As the world's most advanced search engine, Google has gained control over the internet's most technically sophisticated surveillance systems and algorithms. Therefore the company has positioned itself to perhaps be the greatest potential threat to human health via the flow of information and data viewed on our laptops and mobile phones. During the past five years, the pharmaceutical industry has shown a growing interest in the concept of virtual pharmacies, whereby drug companies can leverage their influence over consumers. Social media, notably Wikipedia, has become the consumer’s most utilized resource for gaining knowledge about disease, drugs and health. In a University of Sydney survey, Wikipedia was the first source of choice for gaining information about unfamiliar health topics, even among medical professionals. According to a 2013 joint analysis of this emerging trend, conducted by the University of Zurich and Johnson and Johnson, drug companies can use these virtual platforms to tackle the challenges they face in the financial market and even within medical communities. However, the analysis also recommended that the best strategy would be for Big Pharma to invest heavily in virtual companies and secure partnerships. This strategy is gaining steam whereby tech and social media companies such as Google and WMF are being absorbed into the pharmaceutical machinery and vice versa. The dire results from this marriage are already being felt as we now witness Wikipedia morphing into another mouthpiece for Big Pharma. If Google's transformation into a drug company is not alone disturbing, the world's largest open source knowledge site is acutely entangled with the Silicon Valley giant and its pharmaceutical agenda. In early 2019, Google dumped $3.1 million into WMF’s coffers, which brings total contributions from Google and Sergey Brin to over $7.5 million. Curiously, the announcement of Google's endowment was made at the World Economic Forum at Davos. The donation also includes Google's intention to provide Wikipedia editors with its high tech learning tools. Wired Magazine published an article that further defines the Google-WMF relationship over the years. With respect to Google's generous contribution, journalist Louise Matsakis writes, "but the decision isn’t altruistic... Google already uses Wikipedia content in a number of its own products.... The company also has used Wikipedia articles to train machine learning algorithms, as well as fight misinformation on YouTube." Now with Jimmy Wales' intention to take on the cause of fighting "fake news" – a cause also aligned to his personal Skeptic ideology as the ultimate arbitrator that determines what is real or fake -- Skeptic editors have free access to advanced algorithmic apps to proceed with their agenda to scrub Wikipedia of content favorable towards alternative medicine or content critical of the pharmaceutical empire. Yet Google’s and Jimmy Wales’ mutual interests go beyond the construction of a pharmaceutical ruled society. Brin and Wales first sealed a close relationship during their early efforts to counter the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Together both executives, among others, signed a joint Open Letter to the federal government opposing SOPA, which was coincidently around the same time as Brin’s half-million dollar donation. In 2014, in a reaction against legal issues over privacy matters, Google created an “Advisory Council.” Wales was one of its founding members. In 2012, Google’s charitable arm, Google.org, initiated a collaboration with WMF’s WikiProject Medicine “to further improve the quality of articles” by recruiting and hiring “professional medical editors.” Dr. James Heilman, a Canadian emergency room physician and a seasoned senior Wikipedia administrator who frequently comes to the defense of Skeptic Wikipedians, sits on the WMF’s Board of Trustees. Heilman is one of the founders of the Wiki Project Med Foundation (WPMF) to advance its mission to give “every single person free access to the sum of all medical knowledge.” WPMF now has collaborative relationships with the National Institutes of Health, Cancer Research UK, Cochrane Collaboration, the University of California at San Francisco, the Wellcome Trust and several open-access medical journals. Recently during the Covid-19 pandemic, WMF has strengthened its ties with the global medical establishment. Last October it entered a collaboration with the World Health Organization to assure that public health information and data about Covid-19 is regulated in accordance with the latest pronouncements made by the anointed authorities in the institutional medical establishment. Wikipedia already contains over 5,200 Covid-related entries in 175 languages and these are largely based upon WHO sources. It is estimated that this content is accessed at least a million times a day. Part of the WMF’s commitment is to monitor and censor “the spread of misinformation” according to the WHO’s criteria. In a New York Times article reporting on the new partnership, if this initial pilot Covid-19 project succeeds, it will be expanded to launch additional efforts “to counter misinformation regarding AIDS, Ebola, influenza, polio and dozens of other diseases.” So where exactly in the cesspool of modern medicine and the toxic food, vaccine and the agro-chemical industries are we to discover truth. Few in the scientific and federal health agencies can be trusted anymore. Most are compromised and this distortion of truth for global leverage clearly extends throughout Google and Wikipedia. Rarely is a mainstream journalist trustworthy, and no one can be certain whether a paper appearing in a peer-reviewed science journal or an medical entry on Wikipedia is reliable or not. Even clinical physicians on the front lines of healthcare work in the dark. It is only after large numbers of injuries and deaths due to Agent Orange, DDT, life-threatening vaccine adverse reactions, a Vioxx scandal, or an epidemic of corporate liable opiate drug overdoses that a light bulb eventually goes on. But only for a limited time before it is quickly forgotten and goes dark again. The reason for American medicine turning into the nation's largest and deadliest battlefield is because scientific corruption is legally protected to proceed with impunity. The Surgeon General, the heads of federal health agencies, drug makers, the insurance industry, medical schools and professional associations, Google and WMF, and the media operate as a single voice that the American health system is the best in the world when it is surely not. Corporate interests and massive profiteering control everything. Modern medicine has morphed into a religious cult that is incapable of self-reflection about its own vulnerabilities and failures. This hubris of power and domination plagues Google and the WMF equally. And numerous patients are being played for fools. The fact is that all players in the architecture of our medical system are vulnerable to corruption. Private industry and government know this perfectly. The checks and balances between private and public interests have collapsed. Today, the medical regime is a single entity. All of its parts are consolidated and entwined into a monolithic behemoth to protect its bottom line. In our opinion Google and WMF have been co-opted to serve as the guardians of this culture of corruption. Therefore they both are equally culpable in the widespread destruction of the nation’s public health. Yet we mustn’t expect that the trajectory of an emerging global pharmaceutical hegemony will experience a collapse anytime soon. Rather, with the aid of Google and WMF, it will increasingly monopolize the medical discourse and define the national policies shaping public health. And this requires greater efforts to censor and silence the medical critics and honest investigative journalists bringing light to the medical and scientific flaws upon which health policies and laws are based through the virtual technological apparatus and information control Google and WMF provides. In short, tech companies now control and dictate orders to the morally-deficient incompetents in Washington. Yet the emergence of a pharmaceutical regime as a natural consequence of humanity being in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is unfolding to the delight of Jimmy Wales and his Skeptic denizens who worship his messianic mission to make all knowledge free to the world’s population. But the question has always been “whose knowledge?” Skepticm’s “pseudo-knowledge,” of course. It is not uncommon to find Skeptics acknowledging Wales as one of their own. Wales has provided plenty of assistance to Skeptics and on occasion has come to their defense in discussion groups. Replying to comments Wales wrote on Quora to offer his assistance to rid the world of homeopathy, the co-founder of Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia Susan Gerbic replied: “Jimmy you have already done more than anyone could possibly dream that can be done. You created the most amazing resource in the world. I mean that, not only in English but in every language possible…. Thank you. Allowing us editors to ‘do our job’ and keep these articles honest and correctly cited is enough. I can’t imagine what else you can do, my brain is teeny tiny compared to your mighty brain, if you come up with something please oh please let us in on it, we want to help.” The pharmaceutical industry has no need to attack the competition of non-conventional and natural medicine on Wikipedia. Nor is there a need to hire or pay off Wikipedians to do this dirty work for them since Skeptics are already doing so freely or involuntarily, and Skeptic administrators receive the perks of being provided with Google’s algorithmic tools and apps to protect their message. It is a completely rigged game and Wales and the WMF seem to have every intention to keep it that way. America’s 21st century technological god with a silicon-crafted body demands the sacrifice of the world’s children and elderly and persons for profit in its furnace of drugs and vaccines. John Milton and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg would surely agree. If alive we might hear Ginsberg howling against this devouring techno-Pharma empire on YouTube. From its humble beginnings, and with the technological resources and generous funding received from Google, Wikipedia has morphed into a chaotic war between truth and falsehoods amusingly ruled over by this postmodern Moloch. The dangerous fallout is that objectivity and ethics are being increasingly sacrificed on a cold virtual altar devoted to a perverted metaphysical realism disguised as medical science and fact.
We all use Wikipedia on a daily basis, but do you really know how humanity’s largest organized body of knowledge gets made? Alli and Jen talk with Bill Beutler, a longtime Wikipedia editor and the author of The Wikipedian, a blog about Wikipedia culture. He’s also the CEO of Beutler Ink, a consultancy which advises clients and public figures on the ethical way to address inaccuracies on Wikipedia. Beutler explains the dynamic and rigorous process that happens behind the scenes of controversial Wikipedia articles, how Wikipedians are handling information about COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter, the ever-present specter of bias, and how the entire Internet would be different if Wikipedia operated as a for-profit company. The Wikipedian: http://thewikipedian.net/ Beutler Ink: https://www.beutlerink.com/ Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1P Join us on Discord: discord.gg/2g1p Email us: 2G1Podcast@gmail.com Talk to Alli and Jen: https://twitter.com/alligold https://twitter.com/joonbugger Call the show and leave a message! (347) 871-6548 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rand Fishkin talks to Jason Barnard about removing Wikipedia from the equation when managing the Knowledge Graph. Many marketers rely on using Wikipedia to get into Google's Knowledge Graph. This approach has multiple issues it is not appreciated by Wikipedia editorsit isn't helpful to Wikipedia usersit truly is an all-or-nothing tacticit fails if the article is never published, or is quickly deletedit is an unstable 'one trick pony' strategyit hands control of 'facts' about your brand (or personal brand) to Wikipedians ... and then it isn't the only way to get into the Knowledge Graph. There are many, many other routes you can take that are more stable, more reliable and where you have control. Mostly, we discuss removing Wikipedia from the equation in our Knowledge Graph strategies... but we talk around the topic - taking control of information about you online, Brand SERPs, the future of Brand in digital marketing, the power of the tech giants... and rather a lot more ! 53 stunningly interesting minutes and an incredibly insightful conversation. Kalicube Tuesdays: The Knowledge Graph: Removing Wikipedia from the Equation. With Rand Fishkin. What you'll learn 00:30 Introducing Rand Fishkin01:30 Have the tech giants coloured the United States pandemic response with disinformation?02:40 Nationalism/Collectivism Vs. Individualism and how countries respond to COVID-1908:16 Does the field of digital marketing hold some blame for the spread of misinformation?09:36 Deleting an article on Wikipedia - the impact on Google's Knowledge Graph (example: Boowa & Kwala)10:30 A quick look at Rand Fishkin's Brand SERP13:33 Why Rand petitioned for the removal of a Wikipedia page (and why you might want to)16:39 Using WordLift to create an entity-based content model17:12 Why are certain episodes of this podcast in the Knowledge Graph and others not? 18:45 How a webpage got to become an entity in the Knowledge Graph and trigger a knowledge panel19:24 Google and their use of structured data21:44 Introducing the “Zebra Vs. Unicorn” business philosophy24:43 Who is Google's competitor?25:50 Why you cannot build a competitor to Google28:50 Are governments right to be afraid of big tech companies?29:39 When did Microsoft become the good guy?31:40 The importance of Bingbot's annotation layers32:55 How a company inherits traits from their CEO34:15 The difficulty in disconnecting with a former business36:50 What drove the creation of SparkToro?37:30 What does the “Zebra Vs. Unicorn” business philosophy entail?40:28 Why did Kalicube trend on SparkToro?41:40 What does ‘trending' indicate?43:32 What does SparkToro offer?46:20 How does SparkToro work?50:10 Look beyond Facebook and Google for inbound marketing Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe here >> This episode was recorded live on video August 5th 2020 Recorded live at Kalicube Tuesdays (Digital Marketing Livestream Event Series). Watch the video now >> Special offers... 10% off the schema plugin for Wordpress. This is tool I have been using for the Entity Based Content Model I keep mentioning in the series. Absolutely stunning results in ranking, visibility, traffic and knowledge graph presence... and it is the easiest tool from adding Schema.org markup on the market to use (even without schema markup skills). Plus they have an awesome client support and really get into helping you get the most out of it. 100% recommended. If you have been thinking about getting great schema markup on your site, and now want to take the plunge, get 10% discount on Wordlift here >> (this offer includes a rather generous and confident 14 day, no questions asked money back guarantee) 2 weeks Guru account free. This way for 2 weeks free Guru with SEMrush - the best bang for your buck in the SEO tool space right now :)
Rand Fishkin talks to Jason Barnard about removing Wikipedia from the equation when managing the Knowledge Graph. Many marketers rely on using Wikipedia to get into Google's Knowledge Graph. This approach has multiple issues it is not appreciated by Wikipedia editorsit isn't helpful to Wikipedia usersit truly is an all-or-nothing tacticit fails if the article is never published, or is quickly deletedit is an unstable 'one trick pony' strategyit hands control of 'facts' about your brand (or personal brand) to Wikipedians ... and then it isn't the only way to get into the Knowledge Graph. There are many, many other routes you can take that are more stable, more reliable and where you have control. Mostly, we discuss removing Wikipedia from the equation in our Knowledge Graph strategies... but we talk around the topic - taking control of information about you online, Brand SERPs, the future of Brand in digital marketing, the power of the tech giants... and rather a lot more ! 53 stunningly interesting minutes and an incredibly insightful conversation. Kalicube Tuesdays: The Knowledge Graph: Removing Wikipedia from the Equation. With Rand Fishkin. What you'll learn 00:30 Introducing Rand Fishkin01:30 Have the tech giants coloured the United States pandemic response with disinformation?02:40 Nationalism/Collectivism Vs. Individualism and how countries respond to COVID-1908:16 Does the field of digital marketing hold some blame for the spread of misinformation?09:36 Deleting an article on Wikipedia - the impact on Google's Knowledge Graph (example: Boowa & Kwala)10:30 A quick look at Rand Fishkin's Brand SERP13:33 Why Rand petitioned for the removal of a Wikipedia page (and why you might want to)16:39 Using WordLift to create an entity-based content model17:12 Why are certain episodes of this podcast in the Knowledge Graph and others not? 18:45 How a webpage got to become an entity in the Knowledge Graph and trigger a knowledge panel19:24 Google and their use of structured data21:44 Introducing the “Zebra Vs. Unicorn” business philosophy24:43 Who is Google's competitor?25:50 Why you cannot build a competitor to Google28:50 Are governments right to be afraid of big tech companies?29:39 When did Microsoft become the good guy?31:40 The importance of Bingbot's annotation layers32:55 How a company inherits traits from their CEO34:15 The difficulty in disconnecting with a former business36:50 What drove the creation of SparkToro?37:30 What does the “Zebra Vs. Unicorn” business philosophy entail?40:28 Why did Kalicube trend on SparkToro?41:40 What does ‘trending' indicate?43:32 What does SparkToro offer?46:20 How does SparkToro work?50:10 Look beyond Facebook and Google for inbound marketing Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe here >> This episode was recorded live on video August 5th 2020 Recorded live at Kalicube Tuesdays (Digital Marketing Livestream Event Series). Watch the video now >> Special offers... 10% off the schema plugin for Wordpress. This is tool I have been using for the Entity Based Content Model I keep mentioning in the series. Absolutely stunning results in ranking, visibility, traffic and knowledge graph presence... and it is the easiest tool from adding Schema.org markup on the market to use (even without schema markup skills). Plus they have an awesome client support and really get into helping you get the most out of it. 100% recommended. If you have been thinking about getting great schema markup on your site, and now want to take the plunge, get 10% discount on Wordlift here >> (this offer includes a rather generous and confident 14 day, no questions asked money back guarantee) 2 weeks Guru account free. This way for 2 weeks free Guru with SEMrush - the best bang for your buck in the SEO tool space right now :)
Rand Fishkin with Jason Barnard at Kalicube Tuesdays Rand Fishkin talks to Jason Barnard about Wikipedia and The Knowledge Graph Many marketers rely on using Wikipedia to get into Google's Knowledge Graph. This approach has multiple issues it is not appreciated by Wikipedia editorsit isn't helpful to Wikipedia usersit truly is an all-or-nothing tacticit fails if the article is never published, or is quickly deletedit is an unstable 'one trick pony' strategyit hands control of 'facts' about your brand (or personal brand) to Wikipedians ... and then it isn't the only way to get into the Knowledge Graph. There are many, many other routes you can take that are more stable, more reliable and where you have control. Mostly, we discuss removing Wikipedia from the equation in our Knowledge Graph strategies... but we talk around the topic - taking control of information about you online, Brand SERPs, the future of Brand in digital marketing, the power of the tech giants... and rather a lot more ! 53 stunningly interesting minutes and an incredibly insightful conversation. Kalicube Tuesdays: The Knowledge Graph: Removing Wikipedia from the Equation. With Rand Fishkin. Recorded live Tuesday 4th August 2020 at 20:00 CET. Watch now >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IejyHl6C-dY In partnership with Wordlift and SEMrush What you’ll learn 00:30 Introducing Rand Fishkin01:30 Have the tech giants coloured the United States pandemic response with disinformation?02:40 Nationalism/Collectivism Vs. Individualism and how countries respond to COVID-1908:16 Does the field of digital marketing hold some blame for the spread of misinformation?09:36 Deleting an article on Wikipedia - the impact on Google's Knowledge Graph (example: Boowa & Kwala)10:30 A quick look at Rand Fishkin's Brand SERP13:33 Why Rand petitioned for the removal of a Wikipedia page (and why you might want to)16:39 Using WordLift to create an entity-based content model17:12 Why are certain episodes of this podcast in the Knowledge Graph and others not? 18:45 How a webpage got to become an entity in the Knowledge Graph and trigger a knowledge panel19:24 Google and their use of structured data21:44 Introducing the “Zebra Vs. Unicorn” business philosophy24:43 Who is Google's competitor?25:50 Why you cannot build a competitor to Google28:50 Are governments right to be afraid of big tech companies?29:39 When did Microsoft become the good guy?31:40 The importance of Bingbot's annotation layers32:55 How a company inherits traits from their CEO34:15 The difficulty in disconnecting with a former business36:50 What drove the creation of SparkToro?37:30 What does the “Zebra Vs. Unicorn” business philosophy entail?40:28 Why did Kalicube trend on SparkToro?41:40 What does ‘trending’ indicate?43:32 What does SparkToro offer?46:20 How does SparkToro work?50:10 Look beyond Facebook and Google for inbound marketing Special offers... 10% off the schema plugin for Wordpress. This is tool I have been using for the Entity Based Content Model I keep mentioning in the series. Absolutely stunning results in ranking, visibility, traffic and knowledge graph presence... and it is the easiest tool from adding Schema.org markup on the market to use (even without schema markup skills). Plus they have an awesome client support and really get into helping you get the most out of it. 100% recommended. If you have been thinking about getting great schema markup on your site, and now want to take the plunge, get 10% discount on Wordlift here >> (this offer includes a rather generous and confident 14 day, no questions asked money back guarantee) 2 weeks Guru account free. This way for 2 weeks free Guru with SEMrush - the best bang for your buck in the SEO tool space right now :)
Rand Fishkin talks to Jason Barnard about removing Wikipedia from the equation when managing the Knowledge Graph. Many marketers rely on using Wikipedia to get into Google's Knowledge Graph. This approach has multiple issues it is not appreciated by Wikipedia editorsit isn't helpful to Wikipedia usersit truly is an all-or-nothing tacticit fails if the article is never published, or is quickly deletedit is an unstable 'one trick pony' strategyit hands control of 'facts' about your brand (or personal brand) to Wikipedians ... and then it isn't the only way to get into the Knowledge Graph. There are many, many other routes you can take that are more stable, more reliable and where you have control. Mostly, we discuss removing Wikipedia from the equation in our Knowledge Graph strategies... but we talk around the topic - taking control of information about you online, Brand SERPs, the future of Brand in digital marketing, the power of the tech giants... and rather a lot more ! 53 stunningly interesting minutes and an incredibly insightful conversation. Kalicube Tuesdays: The Knowledge Graph: Removing Wikipedia from the Equation. With Rand Fishkin. What you'll learn 00:30 Introducing Rand Fishkin01:30 Have the tech giants coloured the United States pandemic response with disinformation?02:40 Nationalism/Collectivism Vs. Individualism and how countries respond to COVID-1908:16 Does the field of digital marketing hold some blame for the spread of misinformation?09:36 Deleting an article on Wikipedia - the impact on Google's Knowledge Graph (example: Boowa & Kwala)10:30 A quick look at Rand Fishkin's Brand SERP13:33 Why Rand petitioned for the removal of a Wikipedia page (and why you might want to)16:39 Using WordLift to create an entity-based content model17:12 Why are certain episodes of this podcast in the Knowledge Graph and others not? 18:45 How a webpage got to become an entity in the Knowledge Graph and trigger a knowledge panel19:24 Google and their use of structured data21:44 Introducing the “Zebra Vs. Unicorn” business philosophy24:43 Who is Google's competitor?25:50 Why you cannot build a competitor to Google28:50 Are governments right to be afraid of big tech companies?29:39 When did Microsoft become the good guy?31:40 The importance of Bingbot's annotation layers32:55 How a company inherits traits from their CEO34:15 The difficulty in disconnecting with a former business36:50 What drove the creation of SparkToro?37:30 What does the “Zebra Vs. Unicorn” business philosophy entail?40:28 Why did Kalicube trend on SparkToro?41:40 What does ‘trending' indicate?43:32 What does SparkToro offer?46:20 How does SparkToro work?50:10 Look beyond Facebook and Google for inbound marketing Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe here >> This episode was recorded live on video August 5th 2020 Recorded live at Kalicube Tuesdays (Digital Marketing Livestream Event Series). Watch the video now >> Special offers... 10% off the schema plugin for Wordpress. This is tool I have been using for the Entity Based Content Model I keep mentioning in the series. Absolutely stunning results in ranking, visibility, traffic and knowledge graph presence... and it is the easiest tool from adding Schema.org markup on the market to use (even without schema markup skills). Plus they have an awesome client support and really get into helping you get the most out of it. 100% recommended. If you have been thinking about getting great schema markup on your site, and now want to take the plunge, get 10% discount on Wordlift here >> (this offer includes a rather generous and confident 14 day, no questions asked money back guarantee) 2 weeks Guru account free. This way for 2 weeks free Guru with SEMrush - the best bang for your buck in the SEO tool space right now :)
Hello, comrades! It's time once again to descend into the man-made hell of Chernobyl, now with 100% more puppy-murder! The deep irony of the episode's title, "The Happiness of All Mankind", underscores the misery of the people who were forced to evacuate, the soul and body destroying heroism of the soldiers and engineers doing the work that must be done, as well as the predicament of the people that have to decide between their principles and ethics and disobeying a political structure that can not only take your career and your life from you, but those of your friends and families. As we close the books on the immediate disaster mitigation and clean up, we look forward to what justice we can get for the victims and the world itself as we deal next week with the judicial and political fallout of Chernobyl. We got a lot of informed and professional feedback on the many questions we've been wrestling with on this podcast, but we were provided two documents in particular you might find interesting. First, a paper on how the "Iron Law of Oligarchy" applies even to democratic and open structures such as Wikipedia. Second, a specific example of the tyranny of Wikipedians in the form of a misguided-grammar Nazi. You may also be interested to read an analysis of the relative risks of nuclear power vs coal power from the The Lancetthat I mentioned in the podcast. Support Bald Move: Club Bald Move Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hello, comrades! It's time once again to descend into the man-made hell of Chernobyl, now with 100% more puppy-murder! The deep irony of the episode's title, "The Happiness of All Mankind", underscores the misery of the people who were forced to evacuate, the soul and body destroying heroism of the soldiers and engineers doing the work that must be done, as well as the predicament of the people that have to decide between their principles and ethics and disobeying a political structure that can not only take your career and your life from you, but those of your friends and families. As we close the books on the immediate disaster mitigation and clean up, we look forward to what justice we can get for the victims and the world itself as we deal next week with the judicial and political fallout of Chernobyl. We got a lot of informed and professional feedback on the many questions we've been wrestling with on this podcast, but we were provided two documents in particular you might find interesting. First, a paper on how the "Iron Law of Oligarchy" applies even to democratic and open structures such as Wikipedia. Second, a specific example of the tyranny of Wikipedians in the form of a misguided-grammar Nazi. You may also be interested to read an analysis of the relative risks of nuclear power vs coal power from the The Lancetthat I mentioned in the podcast. Support Bald Move: Club Bald Move Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The mysteriously delayed episode is here! Come spend an hour with us and hear the story of Felice Schragenheim and Lily Wust in addition to the history of the Swedish holiday, Saint Lucy's Day. Happy Holidays to all our listeners! Want show updates? Follow us on Instagram! @not_your_fathers_history Artwork: www.laurenheathart.com Music: @SwingWhale
Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 49 This week we welcome our special guest Jamie Laurie aka "Jonny 5" who you may know as the co-lead vocalist and founding member of the band Flobots. And as we make Transformers out of paper, we also bring up… drawing comic books, the Wikipedians don’t like to change their mind, Black Panther, Time's Up, all the animals in the book of mammals, at the basketball game, what’s the first song on the second side, attention is the currency today… everyone is fighting for it… and that makes it that much more precious, supporting your local bands, observe my own thoughts and emotional reactions to things, we would just press record on a boombox, the changing music scene, it shows that art makes a difference, galvanizing rallying energy, hand cut by me and my scissors, the cumulative effect did something that was transformative, kids recording at home, it was fun to go to Kinko’s and try to make your CD cover, it began as a lie, I heard you when I was eleven, what’s the last song on the first side, creating an emotional experience for people, Madonna’s butt, you look at your phone and just swipe away, transformation has to be visceral to really make an impact, selling tapes at a barbeque, creating a sense of spectacle or wonder or fascination and we did an entire cassette that way. “Yeah, that’s what fuels our songs. We were trying to speak to the world that we’re living in. And to speak to it in a way that resonates with people.” For more info on Flobots, go to: http://www.flobots.com/ And follow Flobots: https://twitter.com/flobots and Jonny 5: https://twitter.com/Flobot5 on Twitter.
Host: Alice Backer, kiskeacity.com Guests: Sherry Antoine, Afrocrowd Program Manager | Wynnie Lamour, Haitian Creole Language Institute | Linda Fletcher, Rajene Hardeman, Wikipedians, Afrocrowders See details, pre- and post-show notes at kiskeacity.com
Jessamyn West is a member of mlkshk, an online community that’s closing. She’s part of a community-led effort to build the next place where this group of people will get together. Best known for her work in the library space, she’s also an experienced online community practitioner, having spent 10 years on staff at MetaFilter, leaving as director of operations. Building on our recent discussions about the thoughtful way to close a community, we look at mlkshk as an example of a group that has done it right. Plus: The differences and similarities between dying and being banned from an online community Why it’s easy for community members to love new ideas, but hard to get them to commit to helping make them real The disconnect between wanting to be a moderator and actually being good at it Big Quotes “One of the things that happens with hobbyist communities, as opposed to giant corporate communities, is the person who’s running it has to kind of love being there as one of the primary things in their life.” -@jessamyn “I like to joke that I’ve created 20, 30, 40 online communities just by banning people, where they get mad and they say, ‘I’m going to create a new community.’ I’m like, ‘Okay. That’s fine. Create your own thing. That’s great. We just can’t do that thing here any longer, because it’s not what we’re about.'” -@patrickokeefe “For some people, I really do feel like the internet kind of flattens who we are to a certain extent. Not in a negative ‘the internet isn’t real’ way, but just in a ‘the internet can’t tell you certain things about people you interact with, and some of those things may matter’ way. It’s hard to say it without sounding really judgmental.” -@jessamyn “It’s so important for [some people] to not be judgmental about personality problems that you wind up with people who are borderline sociopaths, who are unmoderatable, just because people are like, ‘Well, that’s just how that person is.’ You’re like, ‘Well, how that person is, is that they harass female Wikipedians.’ You’ve got to make a choice, right? You just have to make a choice.” -@jessamyn “If you make a decision to leave [our community], that’s your choice, and maybe you’ll come back. You’re welcome, even as a non-member, to talk to us about what the issue is. But for people within the community, they’re like, ‘The goal is that nobody leaves.’ To me, that’s like saying the goal is that nobody dies. Sure, that sounds like a good idea at some level, but realistically, if nobody died, there would be huge problems and, if nobody left the community, you would wind up with a stagnation that would be difficult in its own way, that the community is not supposed to be everything to everyone.” -@jessamyn About Jessamyn West Jessamyn West is a librarian and community technologist who writes a column for Computers in Libraries magazine. She consults with small libraries and businesses in Central Vermont to help them use technology to solve problems and runs a regular drop-in time to help digitally divided people use technology. She is the author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide and is a frequent public speaker at library conferences throughout North America. She has a library newsletter and a blog. Related Links Jessamyn on Twitter Computers in Libraries magazine, which Jessamyn writes for Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn’s book MetaFilter, an online community where Jessamyn was a member of staff for 10 years, resigning as director of operations TILT-Y MAIL, Jessamyn’s librarian-themed newsletter librarian.net, Jessamyn’s blog David Lee King, digital services director at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, mutual friend of Jessamyn and Patrick Community Signal episode with David Lee King Nashua Public Library, one of Patrick’s libraries as a kid Community Signal episode about the IMDb message board closure with Timo Tolonen Community Signal episode with Gail Ann Williams mlkshk, an image sharing community Andre Torrez, application engineer at Slack and founder of mlkshk Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, who works in editorial at Slack Amber Costley, design lead at Begin and founder of mlkshk “Beloved Image Sharing Site mlkshk Saunters Off Into the Sunset” by Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch, about mlkshk’s plans to close in 2014 Post from mlkshk’s blog about why they didn’t shut down in 2014 Discardia, a book by Dinah Sanders, that provides “a flexible, iterative method for cutting out distractions and focusing on more fulfilling activities” Josh Millard, who currently runs MetaFilter Paul Bausch, known as pb on MetaFilter, who previously served as the community’s sole developer and technical administrator Greasemonkey script that enables you to see, on MetaFilter, who has been marked as a librarian by Jessamyn Ask MetaFilter, the community’s question and answer section “mlkshk Shutting Down”, about the site’s forthcoming closure GitHub, a development platform where some current members of mlkshk are collaborating to build the next place they will hang out at “holdkris99’s Death Was a Hoax” by Josh Millard, about a MetaFilter user who faked their own suicide Community Signal episode with Matt Haughey, where we talked about the fake suicide “A Member of Your Online Community Lies About Committing Suicide: What Do You Do?” by Patrick, which Jessamyn left a comment on Wikipedia page for Godwin’s law LearnedLeague, the online trivia league that Jessamyn is a member of “Jeopardy! Contestant Who Died Before Show Aired Keeps Win Streak Going” by Keith Allen for CNN, about a former member of LearnedLeague LearnedLeague’s in memoriam page, created at Jessamyn’s suggestion Community Signal episode about managing a cancer community with the online community manager of Breast Cancer Network Australia’s online community Details about MetaFilter’s “brand new day” policy, which allows banned members to return ColdChef, a MetaFilter member who is a third-generation undertaker and funeral home manager Jessamyn’s consulting website Jessamyn’s personal blog Transcript View the transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be grateful if you spread the word. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.
In this interview with Aaron Halfaker of the Wikimedia Foundation, we discuss his research and career related to the study of Wikipedia. In his paper The Rise and Decline of an open Collaboration Community, he highlights a trend in the declining rate of active editors on Wikipedia which began in 2007. I asked Aaron about a variety of possible hypotheses for the phenomenon, in particular, how automated quality control tools that revert edits automatically could play a role. This lead Aaron and his collaborators to develop Snuggle, an optimized interface to help Wikipedians better welcome new comers to the community. We discuss the details of these topics as well as ORES, which provides revision scoring as a service to any software developer that wants to consume the output of their machine learning based scoring. You can find Aaron on Twitter as @halfak.
FBI agents tell Steve Kroft about their 16-year search and eventual capture of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, once No. 1 on the Most Wanted list; Morley Safer profiles Wikipedians, those "persnickety," techy types who keep your favorite Internet information website brimming with data; and Neil deGrasse Tyson tells Charlie Rose about his fascination with the universe and his own personal journey to reignite interest in the great beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson talks about the evolving role of his massive security efforts that encompass several governmental agencies; In a rare interview, prominent Irish Republican politician Gerry Adams addresses allegations that he was complicit in the 1972 murder of Jean McConville; Morley Safer meets up with the Wikipedians, the "persnickety," techy types who keep your favorite Internet information website brimming with data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Knowledge is power, but not as powerful a power as power over knowledge, when the USS Sisyphus encounter aliens rich in knowledge and low in power over knowledge. Baxter makes an enemy, and the Red Racers defend their title. Improvised August 24th from a suggestion by Brian Sebby via Facebook. Edited by Eric Scull. Featuring Sean Kelley as Lt. Carl Irene Marquette as Lt. Lady Cola, a Wikipedian Leslie Nesbit as Marcnon the Wikipedian, Alan the Trivia Master Christopher Rathjen as Cdr. Corbomite Hayes. Dr. F'gaut Nick Wagner as Ensign Ch'arles Lorem Matt Young as Cpt. Julius Valentine Baxter, En. Greg, "Captain" Owl, Cockney Bartender
The Wikimedia Foundation has been devoting a lot of resources to its “GLAM” (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) initiative, with the goal of building more concrete partnerships between Wikipedia and cultural heritage organizations. The initiative is presented as a mutually beneficial collaboration between Wikipedians and GLAM professionals, but what is the real value of dedicating staff time to a Wikipedia project? The Digital Heritage Center and the North Carolina Collection will discuss this question in light of their recent Wikipedia explorations. This will be a conversation, rather than a lecture, but topics of discussion might include: What has changed in the way librarians approach and understand Wikipedia? Aside from creating and editing Wikipedia articles, what might a Wikipedia project entail? What kind of return on investment might a cultural heritage organization achieve with any of those projects? Why might some kinds of GLAMs find working with Wikipedia more worthwhile than others? How do questions about copyright and licensing play into a Wikipedia project? Is there a culture clash between Wikipedians and GLAM professionals? If so, can it be overcome to the benefit of both sides?
Tech Talkfest is your weekly download of the UK technology scene. In this week's show we speak to the founder of Kiip, a global mobile rewards company that could get you a free latte for levelling up. We also speak to a Wikipedian who's completed over 30,000 edits on the site. He tells us why we can trust the reference site and what goes on behind the scenes of all those articles. Sofie Sandell has a guide to making the best of your Wordpress site and Judith Lewis has news on the latest search updates to maximise your SEO. John and Dave take a humerous sideways glance at the tech world and Richard Lee has the latest tech news from around the globe. So click play and have a listen or head to iTunes to subscribe to the podcast. #Technology #Entrepreneur #wikipedia #Google #Wikimedia #SEO #News #Kiip -- www.twitter.com/TechTalkfest and www.twitter.com/z1radio www.ZoneOneRadio.com www.facebook.com/ZoneOneRadio
Tech Talkfest is your weekly download of the UK technology scene. In this week's show we speak to the founder of Kiip, a global mobile rewards company that could get you a free latte for levelling up. We also speak to a Wikipedian who's completed over 30,000 edits on the site. He tells us why we can trust the reference site and what goes on behind the scenes of all those articles. Sofie Sandell has a guide to making the best of your Wordpress site and Judith Lewis has news on the latest search updates to maximise your SEO. John and Dave take a humerous sideways glance at the tech world and Richard Lee has the latest tech news from around the globe. So click play and have a listen or head to iTunes to subscribe to the podcast. #Technology #Entrepreneur #wikipedia #Google #Wikimedia #SEO #News #Kiip -- www.twitter.com/TechTalkfest and www.twitter.com/z1radio www.ZoneOneRadio.com www.facebook.com/ZoneOneRadio
Tech Talkfest is your weekly download of the UK technology scene. In this week's show we speak to the founder of Kiip, a global mobile rewards company that could get you a free latte for levelling up. We also speak to a Wikipedian who's completed over 30,000 edits on the site. He tells us why we can trust the reference site and what goes on behind the scenes of all those articles. Sofie Sandell has a guide to making the best of your Wordpress site and Judith Lewis has news on the latest search updates to maximise your SEO. John and Dave take a humerous sideways glance at the tech world and Richard Lee has the latest tech news from around the globe. So click play and have a listen or head to iTunes to subscribe to the podcast. #Technology #Entrepreneur #wikipedia #Google #Wikimedia #SEO #News #Kiip -- www.twitter.com/TechTalkfest and www.twitter.com/z1radio www.ZoneOneRadio.com www.facebook.com/ZoneOneRadio
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