Wikipedia DC and Sunlight Foundation are organizing an Open Government WikiHack -- a hackathon dedicated to finding ways to use structured government data to improve Wikipedia.
Continue readingHow Sunlight updated Churnalism — and created a new tool in the process
Yesterday we told you we updated Churnalism with fresher Wikipedia content. Today, we'll tell you about the technical challenges involved — and about a new tool spawned from that effort.
Continue readingChurnalism now updated with fresher Wikipedia content
We've updated our version of Churnalism, making it more reliable than ever to discover the journalism you can trust — and what you should question.
Continue readingWikipedia Turns Ten: Lessons of Collaboration
Wikipedia is the world’s most successful model of citizen engagement and collaboration. It began ten years ago as an experiment... View Article
Continue readingFun with Lines and Dots and Open Source Code
Anthony Mattox, a very talented student at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), recently released some processing code called WikiWeb... View Article
Continue readingOpen-Government.us
As I noted yesterday, happily, the Transition team announced over the weekend they have now adopted the most open Creative... View Article
Continue readingGerman Wikipedia Feud
File this under unintended consequences. It involves a bizarre case out of Germany over the weekend where a politician sued... View Article
Continue readingFull Frontal Scrutiny
Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Center for Media and Democracy (our partners on Congresspedia) joined forces to launch Full Frontal Scrutiny, a blog-driven, wiki-based site dedicated to exposing fake, corporate-funded front groups that are pushing agendas, while hiding their true identity or agenda. Full Frontal Scrutiny will give consumers, voters and citizens a resource for investigating organizations they run across in the media or elsewhere that have popped up to promote a particular opinion or bill in Congress. We love the banner on the site that include this quote from Jonathan Adelstein, commissioner at the FCC: "The American public deserves to know when someone is trying to persuade them." The organizers say it's this spirit that is their motivation for exposing "hidden persuaders." This is a new battle being waged in the spirit of transparency.
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