David Weinberger: Authority and Wikipedia
At the Berkman Center for Internet & Society right now, David Weinberger is talking about authority and Wikipedia. http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s… is the webcast link. The talk should last until approximately 7:30 pm.
We spent a few minutes talking about the value of names and why many people uses pseudonyms in the Wikipedia community. I’ve been thinking about the concept of someone’s name as I meet more and more people who go by nicknames, online names, etc.,–names other than what is on their birth certificate. What is someone’s name?
Reliability, liability, consistency, and, well, authority all mingled in the discussion. Is reliability better than authority? What are the differences?
There’s an amazing showing from the local Wikipedia group, of course.
Addendum 3/16: The Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper, reports on the talk.
