dinglebum

A direct lift of a title from SocialText blog:

One of the questions I get most frequently is: “If anyone can edit a wiki, how do you protect the organization from misinformation or, worse yet, from vandalism.” So I was really happy to see the following paragraph in yesterday’s New York Times article on Diplopedia, the State Department wiki for the diplomacy community:

What if someone creates disinformation or vandalism? Mr. Johnson was asked in Egypt — a not-infrequent question when the topic of wikis comes up. He pointed out that unlike Wikipedia, Diplopedia does not allow anonymous contributors, so bad actors could be tracked down. He then observed, “There are plenty of ways to commit career suicide; wikis are just the newest one.” (my emphasis)

Give that man a cigar! (That man is Eric M. Johnson from the State Department’s eDiplomacy group.) Vandalism and misinformation may be legitimate concerns on public sites like Wikipedia, especially after high-profile missteps like the infamous Siegenthaler incident. Inside the firewall, however, it’s a complete non-issue.

Here’s another. Heard about the dope who pulled a sickie only to announce the fact he’d done one over on his company’s management on Facebook?