Wikipedia hasbara

Wikipedia topics that omit important info because it reflects badly on Israel/Judaism: [meta]

Munich (film): omits all reference to Spielberg's omission of the Lillehammer affair

Talmud: omits law of the moser (cf omerta), inflammatory material against gentiles and Jesus

 
 
 
 
  
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Web3.0 trends

there's some webwide design principles
emerging
that i'm not sure many people
can see yet

wikipedia needs a page for every product
for every person
for every event

(it should supplant the evil classmates.com
as a gatheringplace for nostalgists)

and it should aggregate ALL links
on every topic
sorting them and rating them

so when your vacuumcleaner breaks
you go to its wikipedia page
(which you bookmarked when you bought it
like all your possessions
in an intelligent database)
and find sorted links
to all pages about that product
including diy repairs

this will put google websearch out of business

its 'best-first' algorithms can't compete




the concept of bookmarking
'to read later'
needs to be refined

we experience a continuous stream
of links we find more or less tempting
and we need to sort and rate these
so that the next-most-attractive
is always a click (or two) away




everything on the web
should be striving to connect individuals
who share common tastes and interests
(eHarmony writ large)

everyone's stream of rating/judgments
automatically compared
with similar-others queued
for speed 'dating'

 
 
 
 
 
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Omer Goldman (Wikipedia template)

[pic] [pic] [pix] [ditto]

"officially called Omer Granot" [cite]

sister born ?1981 [cite]

Born: 1989? [19yo in 2008] mother an artist [cite]

?1992: parents divorce [cite]

Home: Ramat HaSharon, Israel (suburb of Tel-Aviv) [cite]

[Facebook]


Jun 2007: father Natalin Granot [cite] 'N' [pic] (Iran expert) resigns as deputy head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service [cite]

...the crucial moment of her metamorphosis occurred this year when she went to a Palestinian village where the IDF had set up a roadblock. Someone she had considered her enemy all her life stood beside her and someone who was supposed to be defending her opened fire at her.

"We were sitting by the roadside talking and soldiers came along and after a few seconds they received an order and fired gas grenades and rubber bullets at us. Then it struck me, to my astonishment, that the soldiers were following an order without thinking. For the first time in my life an Israeli soldier raised his weapon and fired at me."

And when you told your father?

"Dad was astonished and angry that I had been there and endangered my life. After that we had conversations. He supported me as his daughter and we have a good relationship, but he is decidedly opposed to what I do and even more to my refusal to serve in the army."

joins 3000 Israeli high school students in Shministim ("twelfth graders", refuseniks) [cite]

Facebook letter: [etext]

Declaration of refusal:

I refuse to enlist in the Israeli military. I shall not be part of an army that needlessly implements a violent policy and violates the most basic human rights on a daily basis.

Like most of my peers, I too have not dared to question the ethics of the Israeli military. But when I visited the Occupied Territories I realized I see a completely different reality, a violent, oppressive, extreme reality that must be ended.

I believe in service to the society I am part of, and that is precisely why I refuse to take part in the war crimes committed by my country. Violence will not bring any kind of solution, and I shall not commit violence, come what may.

sentenced to 21 days in military prison on 22Sep 2008 (to 10Oct) [cite]

10Oct: re-tried, 14 more days [cite]

12Oct: profile in Times of London [ukTms] [3pg w/pix] [blog thread] [jPost thread] [Current thread] [RandiRhodes thread] [mWeiss thread]

22Nov: "back inside for another 21" [FT update]

Wikipedia Category: alleged anti-semites

Judaism teaches an ethical system that differs dramatically from the universal consensus (fairplay, honest dealings, equality). To criticize Jewish ethics is honorable-- the opposite of racism-- but requires infinite personal courage.

(The first draft of this list was compiled incrementally by searching on likely phrases, then gleaning more phrases)

Henry Brooks Adams "Jews controlled" [16]

Adbusters "Accusations of Anti-Semitism" "accusations of antisemitism"

Aftonbladet

Spiro Agnew "anti-Zionist statements" [2] "remarks about Jews" [5]

St. Agobard

Salvador Allende "anti-semitic views" [57] "supposed 'anti-semitism'" [1]

American Friends Service Committee "anti-Jewish bias" "virulently anti-Israel, anti-Semitic group" [cite]

Kingsley Amis

Amnesty International

Apion

Thomas Aquinas

Yasser Arafat

St. Augustine

Johann Sebastian Bach

Alice Bailey

Roseanne Barr

Jorn Barger "accusations of anti-Semitism"

Hilaire Belloc "Accusations of anti-Semitism" "charged with anti-Semitism" [2] "against Jews" [415] "philosophical anti-Semitism" "allegedly anti-Semitic" [12]

George David Birkhoff "anti-Semitic views" [57] "anti-Semitic tendencies" [8]

Marlon Brando "accused of anti-Semitism" "run by Jews" [7]

Joseph Breen

Pat Buchanan "accusations of anti-Semitism" [42] "accused of anti-Semitism"

Judith Butler

Hodding Carter

Jimmy Carter

Fidel Castro

Catherine the Great

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Coco Chanel [eg]

Hugo Chavez "accused of anti-Semitism" "anti-Semitic themes" [12]

GK Chesterton "accusations of anti-Semitism" "tirades against Jews" "Jewish Problem" "charge of anti-Semitism" [22]

Frédéric Chopin

Wesley Clark "accusations of antisemitism"

Claudius

Alexander Cockburn "accused of anti-Semitism"

Coen brothers [cite]

Juan Cole "anti-Semitic theme" [14] "anti-semitic writings" [13] "antisemitic tract" [8]

James Bryant Conant "virulent anti-semite" [6]

Constantine the Great

Rachel Corrie

Father Charles Coughlin

Ann Coulter "anti-Semitic remark" [52] "labeled anti-Semitic" "anti-Semitic comment"

R Crumb

Roald Dahl "Anti-Semitic remarks" [48]

Paul de Man "anti-Semitic writing" "anti-Semitic writings"

Walt Disney

Fyodor Dostoevsky "anti-Semitic views" "expressions of anti-Semitism" [6]

John V. DuBois [cite]

TS Eliot "charged with anti-Semitism" [2] "blames the Jews" [5]

Rahm Emanuel "auto-anti-semite"

Louis Farrakhan "wicked Jews"

Norman Finkelstein "antisemitic purposes" [4] "anti-Semitic prejudices" [9]

Bobby Fischer "Jewish conspiracy" "Jew-controlled" [17] "hatred for Jews" [6]

Hamilton Fish III "accused of anti-Semitism"

Henry Ford "anti-Jewish articles" [6]

Ben Franklin

Frederick the Great

Gottlob Frege

George Galloway "anti-Israel statements" [6]

Mel Gibson "Allegations of anti-Semitism" [] "accused of anti-Semitism" [46]

Virginia Gildersleeve

Jean-Luc Godard []

Arthur Godfrey "Allegations of Anti-Semitism" "Accusations of anti-Semitism" "No Jews" [74]

Richard Goldstone

Ulysses S Grant [cite]

Family Guy "perceived anti-Semitism" [6]

Billy Graham "Anti-Semitic charges" [4]

Graham Greene


Hadrian

John Hagee

Knut Hamsun

Howard Hawks "anti-semitic comments"

Joseph Haydn

Ernest Hemingway [cite]

Herge/Tintin "accusations of anti-Semitism" "instance of anti-Semitism" [2]

Patricia Highsmith "sometimes labelled antisemitic" [1]

Nicholas von Hoffman

Nick Hornby

David Icke "Allegations of anti-Semitism" "attacked as anti-Semitic" "Jewish clique" "suspicion of anti-Semitism" [2]

David Irving "controlled by Jews" [16]

Ivan the Terrible

J Street

Jesse Jackson "Remarks about Jews" [5]

Michael Jackson

Leonard Jeffries

Jewish Voice for Peace "virulently anti-Israel, anti-Semitic group" [cite]

Justinian the Great

Immanuel Kant

Jack Kerouac

Nikita Khrushchev

Rudyard Kipling

Ku Klux Klan

Naomi Klein

Dennis Kucinich

Lyndon LaRouche "Allegations of Anti-Semitism" "'coded' anti-Semitism" [2] "anti-Semitic writings" [13] "anti-Semitic jokes" [4] "Holocaust denial" "anti-Semitic tracts" [6] "controlled by Jewish" [3]

Anthony Lewis

Rush Limbaugh

Charles Lindbergh "labeled 'anti-Semitic'" "anti-Semitic beliefs"

Ken Livingstone "accused of anti-Semitism"

HP Lovecraft "hostile towards Jews" [3] "anti-Semitic remarks"

Martin Luther "anti-Jewish works" [4]

Kevin B MacDonald "portrayal of Jews"

Maria Theresa "expelled the Jews" [40]

Christopher Marlowe "accusations of anti-Semitism"

Karl Marx "Alleged antisemitism" "anti-Semitic stereotypes" "anti-Jewish feelings"

Joseph Massad

Glenn McCoy [cite]

Mary McGrory

Cynthia McKinney "Allegations of anti-semitism" "anti-Semitic statements" [41] "anti-Semitic beliefs" [8] "anti-Semitic campaign" [40]

HL Mencken "Alleged Antisemitism" [10] "anti-semitic statements" "indisputably anti-semitic"

Michael Moore

Oswald Mosley

Brian Mulroney "anti-Semitic views"

John Forbes Nash "anti-Semitic remarks"

Nicholas II

Friedrich Nietzsche

Richard Nixon "run by Jews" [7]

Barack Obama

George Orwell

Sarah Palin [cite]

Ron Paul

Fred Phelps

Ezra Pound "anti-Semitic statements" [41]

Tariq Ramadan

Judith Regan "anti-Semitic comments" [28]

Scott Ritter

Pat Robertson "anti-semitic beliefs" "Jewish conspiracy" "anti-Semitic works" [6]

Mary Robinson

John Sack

J.D. Salinger []

Jose Saramago

Dorothy L Sayers "anti-semitic views" "consciously anti-Semitic"

Peter Schumann "Accusations of anti-semitism" "Holocaust denying"

Frederick Seidel

Israel Shahak "Accusations of antisemitism" [10] "accused of antisemitism" [9] "leading anti-Semites" [1] "Jewish antisemite" [1] "abetting anti-Semitism" [2] "accused of anti-Semitism"

William Shakespeare

Israel Shamir "Anti-Semitic stereotypes" [23] "radical anti-Semitism" [5] "promoting anti-semitism" [2] "pushing anti-Semitism"

Cindy Sheehan

John Simon [cite]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "anti-Semitic views"

Susan Sontag [cite]

Peter Stuyvesant [cite]

Andrew Sullivan

Tacitus

Matt Taibbi

Mikis Theodorakis "anti-Semitic comments" "alleged 'anti-Semite'" "controlled by Jewish" [3]

Tiberius

Tikkun

Hal Turner

Desmond Tutu "anti-Semitic statements" "labeled anti-Semitic" [6]

Gore Vidal

Voltaire

Thomas E Watson "anti-Semitic comments"

Evelyn Waugh

Otto Weininger

Philip Weiss

H.G. Wells

Virginia Woolf "criticized by some as an anti-Semite"

William Butler Yeats

Vladimir Zhirinovsky "accused of anti-Semitism"

Slavoj Zizek



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Norwich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Tinsley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Coppock

Wikilink biography

[i think hresume would work better with links to wikipedia articles on the schools and businesses, where available. this is a design experiment to see how much biographical content can be boiled down to annotations on wikipedia links.]

the format is: [link] [relationship] [dates] [keywords]

1953 birthyear

Springfield, Ohio birthplace 1953 mercyhospital

Yellow Springs, Ohio hometown 1953-1966

[Vernay Laboratories] job 1958?-1966 father

Antioch College job 1955?-1964? mother

Antioch College school 1958?-1962 labschool

folk dancing activity 1959?-1970? family

Cincinnati Reds fan 1960?-1965

Frank Robinson fan 1960?-present

Ken (Barbie) 1961 toy

Fred Gwynne creditedwith 1962? play

Midsummer Night's Dream 1962? actor

[Mills Lawn Elementary School] school 1962-1964?

Swingle Singers concert 1963?

ice skating sport 1963-1966

Malvina Reynolds met 1964?

[John Bryan Junior High] school 1964?-1966

Heathkits hobby 1964?-1968?

Minivac 601 computer 1964?

Autobiography recapitulates etymogeny

most web2.0 content
(eg blogs, flickr, librarything)
is explicitly autobiographical

documenting your life and tastes
and arranged according to
your personal calendar

so it's not hard to imagine
some web2.0 host
(eg facebook)
supporting a personal
autobiographical chronology
for each registered subscriber

that unifies/collates
all these separate
content autobiographies

with anecdotes photographs maps
lists of books read
movies seen
songs heard or sung
clothes worn
food eaten
objects owned

but all these categories of content
and most of the content itself

had its own separate existence
before it first crossed your personal path

(often before you were born)

and wikipedia should offer
a universal
chronological
index/ table of contents

that your (eg) facebook autobiography
should automatically recognise
as a secondary chronological sorting

"in 1973 i read a book
written in 1799"

"in 1987 i saw a supernova
that had occurred 168,000 years earlier"

"in 2001 i witnessed a melodrama
that's been playing and replaying
with infinite variations
since the evolutionary origin
of territorial aggression"

with every human concept
traced ultimately
to its evolutionary source

often billions of years in the past

while this deep
chronological thesaurus-sorting
(or etymogeny)

is barely dreamt of

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Wikipedia suggestions

1. composite 'mad-lib' microformats [post]
   
2. 'pluripedia' should support multiple versions of controversial articles [post]
   
3. subjects of biographical articles should be encouraged to post their version ('template': eg)
   

Jorn Barger (Wikipedia template)

born 1953 springfield ohio

1953-1966 yellow springs ohio
island of avant-garde culture in sea of cornfields

50s hipster household: butterfly chairs
jazz LPs, folk crafts
wheat chex, local art

nyc magazine and newspaper subscriptions:
new yorker, sunday times book review and arts section
later: village voice, new york magazine
also: the reporter, saturday review
esquire, ramparts
i.f. stone's weekly, science newsletter
krokodil (russian language humor magazine)

saw jfk during 1960 campaign stop in dayton

arguable bacon number of 3
having played a squirrel elf
to fred gwynne's 'bottom'
in 1961 midsummer night's dream

stanford-binet iq in 1962 was 185
hypersensitive androgynous quiet
compulsive reader lazy eye
annual unrequited crushes

literally unable to express anger
before age 20

4th grade teacher complained
'no pride in good work'

1st computer was minivac 601
c1964

baseball fan (reds, frank robinson)
beatles fan (john)
heathkit hobbyist, av club
fastest iceskater in class

moved to bemus point ny 1966-1970
anti-vietnam
accelerated math/science
graduated valedictorian a year early

considered physical sciences unchallenging
targeted psychology instead

jamestown (ny) community college
antioch college
new college (sarasota fl)
university of buffalo
read the texts and skipped the tests

rejected experimental paradigm
instead fusing computer simulation
with literary standards of description

real progress hinging
on spiritual self-knowledge
via krishnamurti especially

esquire magazine in 1972:
"a righteous interpreter of our times"

1974 a turningpoint [more]
pynchon nabokov
robert stone
walker percy
g spencer brown

compiling a database on index cards
of 'literary indications'
brief insightful literary descriptions
of human behavior

database gradually took cyclic shape
heaven-fall-hell-
rise-by-conformity
rise-by-experiment

morphing into
an ungainly poem called 'brainfeathers'
that turned out to closely parallel
finnegans wake

food co-op coordinator, tofu maker
six months on the tennessee farm [more]


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1978 was another turningpoint
cybernetic psychology = robot wisdom
scientific theories of snowflake formation
atp mechanics
and atmospheric physics [more]

omni magazine's 'world hardest iq test'
qualifying for the four-sigma society
and attending their convention in san francisco

anti-math story-notation language [more]
and epiphany of 'missile command' arcade game
as programmable platform for anti-math

self-taught apple2 machine language
worked on arcade conversions for apple, c64 and atari
(now in chicago area)

burned out as coder
did telephone sales and customer service
at pc network and elek-tek

relished the chicago dance/theater scene
performing member of excite dance collective
nonperforming member of jellyeye drum theatre

unrequited romance inspired 'solace' [more]
cybernetic/analytic anthology of quotes
about romantic love
(also some original jazz songs
and settings of poems by Stevens, Graves, and Cavafy)

hired as research programmer [more]
at roger schank's ai lab at northwestern university
scored 780 math 790 verbal 800 analytic on GREs
phd program dangled as carrot
(prof birnbaum: "you're unique
in having worked out which
are the important issues of a.i.
on your own")

fractal-thicket indexing discovered and suppressed
(birnbaum: "the problem is
that none of us
are smart enough
to apply it")

(arguable erdos number of 7
for tech report co-authored with schank: cite)

fwake-l mailing list about finnegans wake
led to deep research into joyce manuscripts

publications:
journal of computer game design [etext]
interactive entertainment design [etext]
european joyce studies [etext]
james joyce quarterly [bookreview not online]

usenet enthusiast 1990-2003
(google groups shows 9430 posts
all thoughtful)
lightningrod for a-holes

quoted in Time 1994 [etext]
arguing the Net is
good for prose style

consulted for chris crawford 1997
on erasmatron story-engine [more]
requiring macintosh upgrade
leading to belated discovery of www
and 17 december 1997 coinage of word 'weblog'
(a smallish one
among hundreds of ongoing neologisms: more)

online profile by julian dibbell
twisted facts and quotes
to fit a lazy thesis

gigantic brouhaha about criticising israel in 2000
(incl a contemptible campaign
of intimidation and character assassination
that continues to this day)
led to shift from mostly-blogging to mostly-joyce-studies
rethinking ulysses and the ellmann biography [more]

later mostly-richly-linked-timelines-experiments

covered 'codecon 2005' for the register 1 2

wired magazine published a libelous fiction
by paul boutin

mostly abandoned
punctuation and capitalisation [more]
in late 2005

currently extending graph theory
to accommodate human psychological complexity
via 'worldtree' graphs [more]

and exploring 'discourse patterns' [egs]

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Web3.0: Ego abhors a vacuum

the challenge of meditation
is not to think

the mind normally filled
with neurotic habits

and the challenge of artistic creativity
is to subvert cliche
(vs nabokov's gap-fillers)

and the scandal of philosophy
is the sophomoric sophistries
like free will or epistemological solipsism
tying innocent minds in useless knots

and usenet newsgroups often used to
suffer from negative intelligence
flamewars displacing constructive discussion
like coinage under gresham's law

or kneejerk techno-utopianism
urging (eg) educators
to squander their budgets on digital multimedia
when the real problem as always
is rewarding the best teachers

so the semantic web movement
for its earliest days
jumped the track
seduced by the shiny
techno quick fix
of xml
and its pie-in-the-sky promises
about embedded metadata

delivering only a flatline
adoption curve
while (eg) wikipedia
keeps rocketing up exponentially

and while journalistic coverage
of 'web 3.0' increases
the hype sounds more and more
hollow and anemic
rdf topicmaps microformats blahblahblah

endless jargonmania
but no 'there' there
never jam today

so i'll suggest again
that metadata belongs in the file header
(not in embedded markup)

and that wikipedia article titles
have solved one semantic problem
by automatically redirecting visitors
when an article title has changed
(i wish blogger did this)

so webpages can begin painlessly
categorizing themselves in their headers
with the closest wikipedia article title/s

and google should index these
with a special keyword
eg "wikiarticle:Ajax_(programming)"

but even more
we can categorise filetypes
"filetype:timeline"

and even more, i now propose
an ontology wiki
eg "ontoclass:business/merger"

that encourages experiment
and redirects changed classnames automatically

and that uses storycycles
as the macroformat

allowing description of
any random news story
any random wikipedia article
any random web resource

by sketching a universal
usual story

of everyperson (eg their wikipedia biographies)
of everyproduct (eg their history and web resources)
of everyprogram (eg the software lifecycle)
of everyenterprise (eg their corporate history)
of everyfile (its creation and dissemination)
ov everyword (its etymology)
of everyidea (its genesis and evolution)
of everyspecies (its selection pressures)

so that the metadata
for any given object
can emphasize precisely
those 'slots' in the usual storycycle
where the object's particular history
deviates from the usual expectations

these storycycles being compiled
incrementally, wiki-fashion
by storytellers who understand
the usual range of details
(a storycycle storycycle)

with an ongoing appreciation of the impermanence
of particular wording
or particular orderings

software storycycle
biography storycycle
business storycycle
hardware storycycle

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Composite Wikipedia Mad-Libs Microformats

imagine analysing
all wikipedia biographies
to determine
what sorts of facts
(birthplace, creative output)
are mentioned most often

now compose
the 100 most common of these
into a generic
biography template
for no-man/everyman

(fill-in-the-blanks
like the game of mad-libs)

now repeat this process 1000 times
for the 1000 most common
classes of article
(countries, cities, animals, historical events)

so we have 1000 article-templates
with 1000 fact-madlibs each

approximating the million most useful
kinds of facts

now pick any arbitrary webpage
and look for examples of those million facts

and assign metadata to that page
telling which article templates were used
which fact madlibs
and what madlib-fillers

(how big a chunk
this will take
out of the semantic-web problem
depends on how many pages
fall outside those 1000 article-types)

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Fork this page

suppose the IMDb
encouraged fans to create fanpages
for their favorite movies and stars

fanpages combining
existing imdb data/elements
with newly added content
and links

so instead of always-uniform formatting
you could choose to browse
enthusiasts' views

so instead of just
writing a review
when you're impressed by a movie
you compile a page
echoing the imdb facts
you judge worth echoing

and cross-referencing
with your own related pages

and ditto for books
music
politics
news
philosophy
porn
etc

each new webpage framed
with its pluripedia alternates

with browsers offering a
'fork this page' button
that registers each forked page
as another alternate

and encourages
copy/add/delete/edit
of old and new page elements

and also maybe
a 'forkify these two tines' button
that declares two existing pages
to be virtually forked




turning wikipedia into pluripedia
requires that each article
accumulate links to all forks

most forks hosted
at pluripedia
but some perhaps not

so that wikipedia's current
arbitrary
policy of
not
trying to link
all related pages
would be explicitly abandoned

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From wikipedia to pluripedia

suppose wikipedia
modified their software
so you could rank editors

for individual articles
easily comparing alternate edits

or more generally
extrapolating credibility
based on familiar examples

and inherit as well
those editors' rankings
of other editors

not a popularity contest

rather the focusing
of an optimal community
based on your individual values

not a universe
(said cs peirce)
a pluriverse