[Web4lib] FW: Wikitorials

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 6/21/05, Sloan, Bernie <bernies at uillinois.edu> wrote:
> Looks like the LA Times wikitorial experiment was rather short-lived:
> 
> >From USA Today:
> 
> "A bold Los Angeles Times experiment in letting readers rewrite the
> paper's editorials lasted all of three days. The newspaper suspended its
> 'Wikitorial' Web feature after some users flooded the site over the
> weekend with foul language and pornographic photos."
> 
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-06-21-wikitorial_x.htm

No doubt this will be interpreted by many as a failing in the concept
of a wiki.  Nevermind the fact that there's been quite a lot of
learning around what makes a wiki work (and a number that do work
well), and the Times experiment did just about everything wrong.