Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder [citation needed]

Wikipedian Protester by xkcd


At the end of 2005 I collaborated on a online performance art piece titled THE ENACTMENT OF “HOW TO STEAM ROLL VOTES AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE”. LONG LIVE ZORDRAC!!! The piece was something that grew out of an a messy AfD vote which mutated into a work of art dealing with the power and control of information and more specifically, corruption within & validity of Wikipedia. Today I was passed a URL for a project that Matthew Mechtley has started, titled [citation needed] So being the Inclusionist Wikipedian geek that I am, I just had to share.




[...]I’ve got a serious case of NADD and about half my browser tabs at any given time are Wikipedia articles. One of my favorite quirks about the site are the little [citation needed] tags that users can place in an article, indicating that a dubious claim needs a reference. One day an idea struck — what statements are more dubious or outright ridiculous than those in advertisements? Thus, an OM project was born.[...]

Matt has “open sourced” the project , so to speak, and is offering downloadable templates so others can participate in the project. He has also been tagging his photoset on Flickr with citationneeded and wikiffiti

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