[Air-l] Online graffiti

Alex Halavais halavais at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 06:23:37 PDT 2006


:). I defined Wikipedia as a "temple built out of grafitti" for a
reporter doing a story on accuracy and wikipedia (see
http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=810).

- Alex

On 4/20/06, Andrea Forte <aforte at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, M.B.Gaved wrote:
>
> >
> > sounds interesting. Like Cameron, I'd ask about what definition you have for "online graffitti"
> <snip>
> > - defacement of existing online content?
>
> By this definition, Wikipedia has a rich history of textual "graffiti."
> :-) Actually, I don't know much about graffiti, but it seems that there
> are many kinds present in Wikipedia, from the "kilroy was here" variety,
> to malicious defacing, to elaborate and sometimes pretty or interesting
> little stories and passages that simply don't belong.
>
> Andrea
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