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Sock Puppets on Wikipedia December 23, 2005

I’ve had a suspicion that a sizeable chunk of the central core of people playing the Wikipedia game are in fact veterans from the older usenet newsgroups game, and Shelly Power’s description of the use of ’sockpuppets’ and overzealous accusation of unrecognised accounts is all too familar….

Burningbird » Yo! Sock Puppets!
Contrary to popular assumption, there are levels of trust attached to Wikipedia contributors. True, anyone can edit; but the value of your edit is proportional to your previous contributions. In the case of those who voted to ‘Keep’ my entry, and based on a history of previous contributions, Samw decided that the respondents were ‘real’ and therefore ‘valid’. However, he judged previous contributions to be sparse by Wikipedia standards, and therefore several of the respondents were classified as ‘lurkers’.

Is being a lurker bad? There is no qualification of such one way or another in the Wikipedia guidelines about lurkers, as there is for sockpuppets. The latter, though, is strongly discouraged and if an account is identified as a sockpuppeteer, will be labeled as such and the account blocked.

Lots of comments there too.

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