Here is a simple solution to the problem of Tor users being unable to edit Wikipedia
trusted user -> tor cloud -> authentication server -> trusted tor cloud -> wikipedia
untrusted user -> tor cloud -> authentication server -> untrusted tor cloud -> no wikipedia
Simple.
Microsoft is trying out a wiki-ish editing process.
Hmm, now people have a choice. They can donate their time and energy to a nonprofit effort to make the world a better place by giving away an encyclopedia under a free license. Or they can go to work for free, enriching Microsoft.
I wonder what the most talented and dedicated people will choose. :-)
In this New York Times story, former Britannica editor Robert McHenry said of Wikinews “The naïveté is stunning.”
Indeed. The same could be said of everything that we do around here. “Edit this page” and all that good stuff.
I accept the compliment. :-)
Wikinews is our collaborative writing project to report the news on a wide variety of subjects using a wiki. On Saturday, February 5, 2005, 22:00 UTC (timezone conversion), we are having an open IRC chat on how Wikinews can interact with weblogs. If you’re a blogger, and you’d like to know more about how Wikinews works, how you can use Wikinews stories in your blog, and how you can contribute, this is an event you should attend. The chat will take place on irc.freenode.net in the #wikinews channel. Agenda and more information on how to connect: [[m:Wikinews_Chat]] .
Spread the word!
So I was due to give a talk locally, but the organizer let me know that it has to be
“Canceled due to lack of involvement from the local area user groups.”
Like the great artists [[:en:Jerry Lewis|Jerry Lewis]] and [[:en:David Hasselhoff|David Hasselhoff]], I’m only appreciated overseas.
My blog is back after I had to shut it down temporarily for some security issues. Maybe I’ll write something soon. :-)
This weekend, I was visting my hometown ([[Huntsville, Alabama]]), and the local newspaper had a story about me and a photo. The fun thing is that several people from my ancient (grade school!) past contacted me.
A couple of them posted comments here, and were the first people to actually figure out that I left the options open for anyone to be able to sign up and publish an article on my blog. Yes, it was crazy set the options to let people do this, but hey, I’m the wiki guy, right? And look at the neat result.
For now, though, I am just moving their comments to be comments on this post rather than actual articles.
How I spent my day off.
Jimmy Wales 