{"id":257,"date":"2005-12-01T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/12\/01\/wikipedia-watching-steve-rubel-islam\/"},"modified":"2005-12-01T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T15:05:32","slug":"wikipedia-watching-steve-rubel-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/12\/01\/wikipedia-watching-steve-rubel-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia watching : Steve Rubel, Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1151'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Steve Rubel <\/span>outdoes himself with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2005\/11\/ten_wikipedia_h.html\">wikipedia hacks<\/a> for newcomers, and just today promotes WP to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/citizen_journalism\/index.html\">disruptive monarch<\/a>.&nbsp; He seems to have a growing love affair with the project, but expresses that enthusiasm in odd ways.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Finnish Wikipedia&#8217;s article on <a href=\"http:\/\/fi.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam\">Islam<\/a> was panned by Finnish economics magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taloussanomat.fi\/pda\/online\/online.asp\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Taloussanomat<\/span><\/a><font size=\"1\"> (here I link to their pda-friendly site; their main pager crashes my Firefox)<\/font>,<br \/>\nwhich did a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">sampling <\/span>of WP articles and gave it a rating of 1\/10.&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt is worth noting that the Hebrew and Russian language-versions of the<br \/>\narticle ( <b><a href=\"http:\/\/he.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%9D\">&#1488;&#1505;&#1500;&#1488;&#1501;<\/a> <\/b>and <a href=\"http:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC\">&#1048;&#1089;&#1083;&#1072;&#769;&#1084;<\/a>, respectively )<b> <\/b>have been featured as excellent articles in their languages; the English article <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam\">Islam<\/a>, on the other hand, failed a recent featured-article <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates\/Islam\">candidacy<\/a> <font size=\"1\">(though it remains on the new and growing list of&nbsp; &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Good_articles\">good articles<\/a>&#8216; [which I hope to see expand to 2% of the entire work])<\/font> and &#8212; while full of information &#8212; could use some cleaning up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Rubel outdoes himself with some wikipedia hacks for newcomers, and just today promotes WP to disruptive monarch.&nbsp; He seems to have a growing love affair with the project, but expresses that enthusiasm in odd ways. 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