Comments on: LA Times Wikified Editorials Turned Out To Be a Bad Idea – Who Would Have Thought? http://creeva.com/2009/01/05/la-times-wikified-editorials-turned-out-to-be-a-bad-idea-who-would-have-thought/ My life unfolding and being told online - 1 byte of information at a time. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:35:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: spookyed http://creeva.com/2009/01/05/la-times-wikified-editorials-turned-out-to-be-a-bad-idea-who-would-have-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-16804 spookyed Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:34:16 +0000 http://creeva.com/?p=3901#comment-16804 I think they were asking for trouble using this technique.<br>I am not surprised they got bombarded with porn, any opening and its in.<br>Did anyone get fired?<br>I would have fired the whole team.<br><br>spookyed I think they were asking for trouble using this technique.
I am not surprised they got bombarded with porn, any opening and its in.
Did anyone get fired?
I would have fired the whole team.

spookyed

]]> By: spookyed http://creeva.com/2009/01/05/la-times-wikified-editorials-turned-out-to-be-a-bad-idea-who-would-have-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-16413 spookyed Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:34:16 +0000 http://creeva.com/?p=3901#comment-16413 I think they were asking for trouble using this technique.<br>I am not surprised they got bombarded with porn, any opening and its in.<br>Did anyone get fired?<br>I would have fired the whole team.<br><br>spookyed I think they were asking for trouble using this technique.
I am not surprised they got bombarded with porn, any opening and its in.
Did anyone get fired?
I would have fired the whole team.

spookyed

]]> By: creeva http://creeva.com/2009/01/05/la-times-wikified-editorials-turned-out-to-be-a-bad-idea-who-would-have-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-16131 creeva Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:55:13 +0000 http://creeva.com/?p=3901#comment-16131 I'm aware of wikinews - my point was two-fold LA Times is such a large target they should have realized they would have more problems then wikinews. On the same token I'm sure wikinews has more volunteer moderators that are passionate about wikinews that handles issues (and I'm sure they use the spam plugin). <br><br>The LA Times should have been scaling up moderators to handle and patrol the wiki based on the number of users they had - since the LA Times was making money off the work directly - most passionate people that could have protected it were probably over at wikinews already. I'm sure they short staffed it and thought it would be an easy to implement solution, which it rarely ever is. <br><br>I believe Wiki's can be used for news - it just won't "be easy" I'm aware of wikinews – my point was two-fold LA Times is such a large target they should have realized they would have more problems then wikinews. On the same token I'm sure wikinews has more volunteer moderators that are passionate about wikinews that handles issues (and I'm sure they use the spam plugin).

The LA Times should have been scaling up moderators to handle and patrol the wiki based on the number of users they had – since the LA Times was making money off the work directly – most passionate people that could have protected it were probably over at wikinews already. I'm sure they short staffed it and thought it would be an easy to implement solution, which it rarely ever is.

I believe Wiki's can be used for news – it just won't “be easy”

]]> By: grin http://creeva.com/2009/01/05/la-times-wikified-editorials-turned-out-to-be-a-bad-idea-who-would-have-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-16126 grin Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:48:42 +0000 http://creeva.com/?p=3901#comment-16126 This was tested by a local online news by trying to create an article about a given topic by wiki-like technology. It was actually succeeded to attract idiots and other internet lowlifes and failed to please intelligent lifeforms for long enough, and finally has been fallen to oblivion.<br><br>Wikinews, however, seems to work. This was tested by a local online news by trying to create an article about a given topic by wiki-like technology. It was actually succeeded to attract idiots and other internet lowlifes and failed to please intelligent lifeforms for long enough, and finally has been fallen to oblivion.

Wikinews, however, seems to work.

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