Editing Your Wikipeda Entry
Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, former publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog and publisher of the great Cool Tools newsletter, asks an unusual question on AskMetaFilter today:
What is the proper netiquette for editing a Wikipedia entry about yourself? I just stumbled upon mine recently. Since it is written in the third person there is the presumption of objectivity. But then, it is my life, and I am the world’s expert on it. What would you do?
I say go ahead and edit it. If somebody else doesn’t like what you wrote about yourself, they can change it. Wikipedia does a remarkable job of ironing these things out.
On a vaguely related note, I made my first-ever modifications to a Wikipedia article. I added a bit of information about Canadian theatre autuer Robert Lepage. We’ll see if it sticks.
On another related note, I just discovered Wikitravel. It has the potential to be a great resource, but I don’t think it’s achieved critical mass yet. Here’s the entry on Vancouver.
