LA Times WikiTorial Update - vandalized
Via Weblogsky, The vandals got the handles: "The LA Times' experimental 'wikitorial' last week disappeared after pornographic images were posted there. [Link - NY Times, requires registration]
This is a critical issue: how do you promote and support openness and transparency when a small faction wants to trash it. The downside of networks. Nothing is pure light. We balance dark and light in everything we do and to think otherwise is shortsighted.
'Nothing bad happened really until after midnight on Saturday,' said Michael Newman, deputy editorial page editor. At 8:32 p.m. Saturday, a posting on www.Slashdot.org, which bills itself as 'news for nerds,' directed readers to the Times wikitorial.
'Slashdot has a tech-savvy audience that, to be kind, is mischievous and to be not so kind, is malicious,' Mr. Newman said. 'We were taking stuff down as soon as it went up and staving them off. Finally we had to go to bed. Someone called the newsroom a little bit before 4 a.m. and said there's something bad on your Web site, and so we just took the whole site down.'"
The question is, how do we utilize productively both forces? We need both. But in some sort of balance.
posted by Nancy White at 6:10 AM
1 Comments:
I was afraid this would happen to the LA Times. Really stinks, especially since I've been trying to convince my boss that we need a Wiki for our community. I was hoping she'd miss the whole thing but alas, Poynter covered the fiasco so she spotted it.
I'm not giving up, I think Wikis make a lot of sense for us.
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