Sundar Pichai is now Google CEO, but Wikipedia is fighting over his school
http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/as-sundar-pichai-becomes-google-ceo-wikipedia-fights-over-his-school/
And yes the edits are continuing. So far Pichai's
wikipedia page has seen over 354 edits in the last week alone,
and the number of users who have edited Pichai's page stands at
406. If you see the graph on the edit stats page for Pichai,
you will notice how the graph spikes once August 2015 starts,
the month when he was announced as Google's new CEO. While some
of us might have a good laugh over this 'edit-war', the issue
raises concerns over how 'collective wisdom' online is often
guided by its inherent biases. In this case, the desire to
claim the new Google CEO as a member of one particular Chennai
school has reduced the whole exercise of Wikipedia's democratic
freedoms to a farcical exercise.
- - -
Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia, it's an anonymous brawl. I'd like to
see Google help to sponsor a long-term project to create a new online
encyclopedia that would consist almost entirely of fully attributed
entries -- that means, showing the real names of the real people who
wrote them -- and included peer review whenever possible and
appropriate. It's time to move beyond the Wikipedia "anybody can declare
themselves to be an anonymous expert about anything" model. The quality
of Google's search results moving forward would not only benefit if this
proposal reached fruition, but the entire Internet community would
benefit as well.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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