Come play Wikipedia’s “BLP-Pallooza”

Last week Entrepreneur online featured a guest writer, Amy Osmond Cook – who blogged about “what she learned when her Wikipedia page was deleted”.

Her biography or “BLP” (Biography of a Living Person) was on Wikipedia for a few months, before, as she says “a Wikipedia editor deleted my article” where she claims it was “taken over by trolls”.

Amy will probably do a better job than I of telling her…

Community College District Board Member Timothy J. Farley Wins National Government Relations Award

MARTINEZ, CA – Contra Costa Community College District (CCCCD) Governing Board member Timothy J. Farley has received the national 2017 Edwin Crawford Award for Innovation.  Farley is being honored for his advocacy and leadership as director of government and community relations at Saint Mary’s College and elevating the college’s profile among California legislators and their staff. “To be…

Tim Farley’s big black hat on Wikipedia (or How to lose the rational middle)

Tim Farley is not my ideological opponent. Contrary to how he passionately prefers to frame these issues to his audience of a few hundred skeptics, a number of the people complaining against skeptic activism online are not believers or promoters of parapsychology or psi/esp or even Rupert Sheldrake. I’m not a parapsychology promoter and to be honest, do not really know much about the issue…

Tim Farley asks ‘why do people edit Wikipedia?’ without a mention of ‘activism’ as a motivation.

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Tim Farley, author of Skeptools and of unique interest to the WWHP project, shares with his readers this past January what some academics consider a rich question. Why do people edit Wikipedia?

He brings up a (preliminary) study by Sciences Po, Harvard Law School, and University of Strasbourg, which wind up citing social image and reciprocity as the main motivators.

Wishing to seize the…

Skeptic History: When psychic surgeon Tony Agpaoa was indicted Dec. 19, 1968 in Detroit, he fled the US. http://bit.ly/hpUYMJ

RBUTR: This is an application for Chrome users that allows you to easily and quickly find rebuttals and counter-arguments to pages you're reading. It's designed to "facilitate online discourse."

New Post has been published on http://TheReasonChannel.com/the-future-skepticism-online-crowd-sourced-activism-tam-2012/

"The Future of Skepticism Online: Crowd-Sourced Activism" - TAM 2012