Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge:
On Saturday, Dave Winer noticed that his name had been elided from the Wikipedia’s page about podcasting. He wrote:
How is Wikipedia going to prevent from this from happening again? That’s a serious issue. It’s not the first time it’s happened. This is why I’ve never been a strong advocate of Wikipedia. [Scripting News: People with erasers]
There is no way that Wikipedia can prevent such things from happening. But the mechanisms it has evolved to deal with them are fascinating and worthy of study.
But yet, Dave Winer has always felt fine about editing his own remarks as soon as someone calls him on anything. Note: not updating or refining his viewpoint, but tossing an earlier statement down the memory hole to spike someone else’s argument.
Sweet irony that he would be edited out of Wikipedia . . . .
[composed and posted with ecto]