Privacy, Openness, Trust And Transparency On Wikipedia

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Presented at Chaos Communication Congress 26 by

Haeb

Wikipedia's enormous growth during this decade, which has made it a "poster child of Web 2.0", has been enabled by its "anyone can edit" philosophy – external credentials are not required, and one still doesn't even need to set up a user account to change the content of one of the planet's most visited websites. This radical openness created unsurprising vulnerabilites (to vandalism, libel, copyright violations, introduction of bias, organized PR activities, etc.), but it is balanced by an equally radical transparency, where even minuscule actions of editors are recorded indefinitely.