Wikipedia Seeks To Pollute Google, Search Engines
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Joel Leyden Jerusalem ---- January 3, 2007..... Wikipedia, which spams itself as "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit," is now seeking to corrupt the Internet's search engines. The new Wikipedia project is called Wikiasari, a combination of 'wiki', meaning 'quick' in Hawaiian, and 'asari', meaning 'rummaging search' in Japanese. Wikiasari will be operated by Wikia Inc, the commercial company owned by Wales that provides the technology behind the not-for-profit Wikipedia free encyclopedia. Wikipedia, which has lost any reputation for credibility and is no longer allowed as an academic source for most universities, is found quite often coming up in top positions when performing searches on Google. The new search engine project will aim to capture a Wikipedia-style community to enhance search results. "Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try searching for the term 'Tampa hotels', for example, and you will not get any useful results," Wales told The New York Times. Once
again, Jimmy Wales is full of crap, not Google. It is this highly unprofessional style which has made both Wales and Wikipedia popular. That is - Wikipedia does not deal in fact, it works with gossip, rumors, lies, slander and tons of libel. Wikipedia's Achilles heel is that it is open to any 8-year-old child or perverted mind to edit matters from nuclear physics to Islamic terrorism. The very fact that there is not one professional editor on the Wikipedia's payroll speaks volumes. Wikipedia claims that anyone can edit its site. But what they do not tell the public is that your edit will be subject to a bunch of mafia style administrators who will delete, edit and censor the edits you make to fit their own political and commercial agenda. I know, I was a volunteer editor at Wikipedia for nearly a year. One example of how this writer, who was once embraced by Wikipedia and then banned from Wikipedia after criticizing the site is now given. I was harassed by Wikipedia administrator and feminist Gili Bar-Hillel, a translator of questioned reputation in Tel Aviv who "stalked" and harassed this writer after posting that the City of Ra'anana in Israel practiced gender bias discrimination in their child welfare department. Bar-Hillel has attempted to attack both the Israel News Agency and Leyden's reputation at every twist and turn demanding to know everything about the INA and Leyden. Bar-Hillel went so far as to question Leyden's Israel Government Press credentials suggesting that they were "forged." She even demanded to know Leyden's private Israeli security information to be disclosed on-line for all to view. She was promptly joined by a Josh Gordon, user named Slimvirgin (many believe that Slimvirgin is a sockpuppet or alias of Danny Wool) and then a circus of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian, Iran and Islamic supporters who were thrilled to see Israeli Gili Bar-Hillel attack another Israeli who serves as a media consultant to the Israel government. When people ask me why Wikipedia is obsessed with taking out the Israel News Agency which provides an on-line back-up for information coming from the Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Israel Export Institute and the Israel Defense Forces I have really been stuck for an answer. Wool is Jewish and states that he lived in Israel for 15 years and Bar-Hillel is an Israeli living in Tel Aviv, but their mammoth egos apparently overshadow Israel's security. I am also quick to mention how Wikipedia management first embraced the Israel News Agency and Joel Leyden by featuring a story that the INA had first written about Wikipedia in their "Signpost" department. But once I dared to criticize Wikipedia in the INA article Wikipedia: A Nightmare Of Libel and Slander stating that the so-called "encyclopedia" lacked accountability, credibility, objectivity and overtly censored many topics and people including famed, respected US attorney Alan Dershowitz, Wikipedia management went hysteric. They did all they could to rid the Wikipedia pages of the Israel News Agency and Joel Leyden. "Why would an on-line encyclopedia desire to censor a Western and democratic media outlet which reaches over 60 million people worldwide? Why would they want to do it during a time when Israelis in Haifa, Nahariya, Tiberius and Sderot are being murdered through Hezbollah Katusha terror rockets coming from Lebanon and Qassams blasting from Gaza? That Wikipedia describes terrorists from Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, Iran and Syria as "militants", one can only suspect that it boils down to latent anti-Semitism. And this is an issue for which the Israel News Agency is now asking the public to take up with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). But the Israel News Agency is not alone. A group of people, having administrative rights at Wikipedia, decided to follow Iran President Ahmadinejad's call to delete Israel from the map. They have decided to start with making their deletions from Wikipedia. In the last two weeks, at least three blogs / podcasts, all having a word "Israel" in the name, were nominated for deletion, two of them were deleted. The deleted references were to Israelisms podcast (deletion notice) and to Israpundit blog (deletion notice). The third page is a quite well known blog, by the name Israellycool (Wikipedia page with deletion notice) . There could be more. All of them got the same lame excuse for deletion - "a non-notable page". Even if, by using a very harsh criteria, it could be applied to the first two, it certainly cannot be applied to Israellycool. Israellycool's owner, Dave, was interviewed several times by major media outlets, and his blog was referenced numerous times, both by MSM and leading bloggers. There is no doubt in my mind, that this is a deliberate attempt, to get back at Israel and it's supporters, by abusing the administrative rights, given to Wikipedia's moderators. It a shameful fact that Wikipedia is abused and corrupted because of political agenda. Are Wikipedia's investors and venture capital sources such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Dan Gillmor, The Omidyar Network, Pierre Omidyar, Mark Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, Joichi Ito, and Mitch Kapor aware of the rampant libel, slander and censorship taking place in Wikipedia's so-called "citizens media?" To censor any free and democratic source of news is a violation of our basic rights to free speech in a free society. As Wikipedia is a leading source of information coming out of the US, censorship of non-inciteful accredited news media is a direct breach of public trust which only serves the egos and pride of Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales and his assistant Danny Wool. Watchdog sites such as Wikitruth and The Wikipedia Review (which has also been censored from Wikipedia) were quick to point out the repeated censorship of the Israel News Agency. Recently the world media was in an uproar over how Wikipedia inaccurately described the death of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay. This is how the Washington Post described the Wikipedia fiasco. The Israel News Agency, Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Lay, countless members of the US Congress and Senate are weak examples of Wikipedia atrocities when one examines how Wikipedia accused USA Today editor John Seigenthaler of murdering Robert and John Kennedy. Seigenthaler stated: "I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the false, malicious "biography" that appeared under my name for 132 days on Wikipedia, the popular, online, free encyclopedia whose authors are unknown and virtually untraceable." He concluded a USA Today editorial saying: "When I was a child, my mother lectured me on the evils of "gossip." She held a feather pillow and said, "If I tear this open, the feathers will fly to the four winds, and I could never get them back in the pillow. That's how it is when you spread mean things about people." For me, that pillow is a metaphor for Wikipedia." Wikipedia is spam. Nothing more and nothing less. Any SEO - Internet marketing search engine optimizer - who has taken a look at Wikipedia's programming code can tell you this. So between securing the unemployed, the retired, bored students, a mix of gossip and having potent SEO Internet marketing code - Wikipedia spams Google. But not content with being the number one spammer at Google, Wikipedia and it's ego centric operators now desire to corrupt the objective results we receive when making on-line searches. The voluntary collaborative “wiki” model, is being recruited now for "building a better search engine." The project was announced in December by Wikia, a for-profit company co-founded by Jimmy Wales, the former options trader and porn site operator who has been the public face of Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia, a wiki search engine would be based on the idea that volunteers can do the work of paid professionals in the case of search engines, the work of sophisticated computers that evaluate Web sites for relevance using secret criteria. “The one thing that I feel like I know how to do is build communities,” Mr. Wales said. “I mean it differently than the way it is often abused in the Internet community as feedback ratings. I mean people who know each other, who have discussions. In Wikipedia, there are discussions. We want to encourage that here.” What Wales does not state is that if the Wikipedia administrators do not care for you, they will ban you and you will then have as many free speech discussions on Wikipedia as they do in China. The Wikia search engine would allow users to see how the results were generated and modify those rankings using their own knowledge of the Internet. Any changes could be reversed by a different user, and, as in Wikipedia, long discussions could ensue over the decisions. “I suspect there is a need for categorization and grouping” by the volunteers, Mr. Wales said. “It would not make sense to have a dialogue for each long-tail search. For popular searches, it makes sense. The question is: will there be a demand?” he said. No, Mr. Wales. There will not be a demand. When the brilliant minds who created and fine tuned Google to be an objective research tool with no pathos touch from a human, Google did well. Google's states that its mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine - an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second. When you visit www.google.com or one of the dozens of other Google domains, you'll be able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions of images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages -- more than 1 billion posts dating back to 1981. Google also provide ways to access all this information without making a special trip to the Google homepage. The Google Toolbar enables you to conduct a Google search from anywhere on the web. And for those times when you're away from your PC altogether, Google can be used from a number of wireless platforms including WAP and i-mode phones. Google's utility and ease of use have made it one of the world's best known brands almost entirely through word of mouth from satisfied users. As a business, Google generates revenue by providing advertisers with the opportunity to deliver measurable, cost-effective online advertising that is relevant to the information displayed on any given page. Google believes you should know when someone has paid to put a message in front of you, so Google always distinguish ads from the search results or other content on a page. Google does not sell placement in the search results themselves, or allow people to pay for a higher ranking there. But with a Wikipedia search it would be just the opposite. You would not know when someone was paid to put a message in front of you, and if your politics meet the commercial agenda of Wales, Wool and their investors you could then secure a high and corrupted Wikipedia search placement. Mr. Wales and Angela Beesley, a co-founder of Wikia, are pivoting from the nonprofit encyclopedia to the world of dot-com start-ups. Mr. Penchina said that Wikia, which is based in Menlo Park, Calif., had raised $4 million from a group of investors, and that in December it had additionally received “an undisclosed, significant cash investment” from Amazon.com. As for the idea of getting people to donate their work to a for-profit operation, Mr. Wales said, “Part of the incentive problem is making it fun.” We
at the Israel News Agency do not call this fun. We label it dangerous exploitation. Wikipedia has many volunteer editors and administrators who do a great job. Now these same good people must take back the promise which was made to them by Jimbo Wales and Danny Wool of creating a "citizens media." They need to hire professional editors who they will assist. They need not fix a wheel which is not broken - Google. Many describe Wikipedia as evil. The INA simply believes what the majority of the world's finest, most respected newspapers and universities believe - Wikipedia is not professional. Not to be relied upon. The Village Voice, in addition to critical comments made by Reuters, The Washington Post, ZDNet and the Times of London, BusinessWeek, and the National Review recently said: "Not notable? Wikipedia hosts approximately three jillion full-page articles about local high schools, complete with alma mater lyrics, and it can't make room for a critical look at its own practices? Perversely enough, though, "notability" has indeed become a byword for Wikipedia's freelance fact police, who delete at will whatever they think might worsen the site's smoldering reputation as a trivia dump." Wikipedia's slogan is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." Does that now include Osama bin-Laden and associates? Do you want your children hanging out here or referencing material from unprofessional, biased editors who hide behind aliases? Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, resigned from Wikipedia to create The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything,". A new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It has begun life as a "gradual fork" of Wikipedia. But it has taken on a life of its own and will, perhaps, become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects. Sanger states that the project is expert-led, not experts-only and will launch publicly in early this year. Sanger could not no longer stand the stench at Wikipedia and is creating a better tool. He is not talking about search engines but rather is spending his time repairing Wikipedia - an Internet weapon of mass destruction and libel for which the world would be a much better place without. Something is very wrong and very dangerous at Wikipedia. We don't need a "Wikipedia" search engine built and monitored by biased, subjective "volunteers" to create further confusion in our lives.
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