Daniel Brandt, Confusapedia and the best articles on Wikipedia March 7, 2007

Daniel Brandt stars again as the article about him is going through an unprecedented 13th Article for Deletion nomination. For those who don’t know him (wiki article):

Daniel Leslie Brandt is an American activist on the World Wide Web, particularly in relation to Google Inc. and the Wikipedia encyclopedia project. He is also known for his work on deep indexing… Brandt launched the Wikipedia Watch website … in response to a user authoring a biographical article on him within the Wikipedia peer-edited online encyclopedia project. He has published some logs from Wikipedia Internet Relay Chat channels on Wikipedia Watch, and he has listed dozens of examples of plagiarism by Wikipedia editors on the English portal.

It seems that the community will keep the article again. On his website, Wikipedia Watch, he features the Essjay story (just an update: Essjay resigned).

The Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story is a resource site for the feature documentary about wikipedia and free digital content, due out in Spring 2008. Anyone can edit it, so contribute your ideas to the making of the film; suggest someone to be interviewed by the filmmakers or take a look at the current shooting schedule (03. 08.: London).

There are two other interesting articles on Wikipedia:

• The more, the wikier (Nature article) : The secret to the quality of Wikipedia entries is lots of edits by lots of people
• The science of Confusapedia (bioephemera.com):

The science entries on Conservapedia are easy targets – finding mistakes is like shooting fish in a barrel.

And at last, the best essay on Wikipedia for a long time.