Gleick describes a controversy that cropped up among the citizen editors of Wikipedia.
Digg relies completely on its community of citizen editors to find interesting news stories and submit them to the site to be voted on by others.
But the incident is more than a milestone for the social news site: it underscores the power that legions of citizen editors have to determine the importance and timeliness of news.
Weird Al Yankovic, for one, according to his song "White and Nerdy". But while many citizen editors have good intentions in sharing and refining information in the public domain, subjects such as medical information require further oversight by qualified professionals.
Previously, "citizen editors" could only edit sites which already have the gooseGrade plugin installed.
Discussion pages are where Wikipedia's anonymous citizen editors talk about what should, and should not, be contained in the actual article.
Top10 Media operates: Top Ten Sources, which empowers Citizen Editors to share content from around the Web; Lisensa, which provides copyright licensing for UGC; and, StyleFeeder, which offers shoppers the ability to create virtual wish lists.
(You can find them by clicking on the "discussion" tab at the top of every entry). Discussion pages are where Wikipedia's anonymous citizen editors talk about what should, and should not, be contained in the actual article.
The consensus among Wikipedia's citizen-editors is that the information was too poorly sourced to include, or simply irrelevant.
WHEN Kevin Rose, a former host on the TechTV channel, created Digg in 2004 — before Facebook caught on and two years before Twitter's start — the idea of a "social news" site, with content chosen by citizen-editors, was novel.
