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notes that there is much editing interest in the Knowledge (XXG) biographies of 2008 US presidential candidates. It notes that the content on Knowledge (XXG) is highly influential, because it tends to show up high on web searches. Campaign aides, however, say that the matters that the editors war
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that allows you to visualise edits to a particular Knowledge (XXG) page. On a particular screen, you can see the amount of activity on a given Knowledge (XXG) article over time, the contributions from a particular editor over time, and some other basic statistics. Information can also be gleaned
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over are inconsequential. In the debates that ensue, editors have been accused of bias by being associated with one political party or another, and in some cases, administrators have been called in to protect articles from editing.
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Why not? Sure it's not "news" in the traditional sense, but I think it is useful to point to what others have been saying - I see the role of this section as a barometer of what other people think of Knowledge (XXG).
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about a particular user's editing habits. Termed "Social Transparency", this human-readable information can be used by Knowledge (XXG) readers to evaluate the quality of the edits that have gone into an article.
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That was not a new editor (just a rarely contributing one), nor is their complaint that they gave it a chance very convincing, as they were obviously biased from the outset.
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Why are there two random blogs in this section? The one isn't even specific- it just says "I had my two articles deleted, these people are psychopaths."-
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The blogspot one is particularly vague. I get the impression we're trawling through peoples' personal rants here.-
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Thanks for your comments, and I'll definitely take them on board when I next make a selection of what to cover.
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Other mentions in the online media about Knowledge (XXG) in the past week include:
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WikiDashboard: visualisation of edits on Knowledge (XXG)
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On Knowledge (XXG), Debating 2008 Hopefuls' Every Facet
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I Steal Knowledge (XXG) Content And Get Away With It!
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US election candidates' articles heavily scrutinised
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