marpot writes: "In an effort to assist Wikipedia's editors in their struggle to keep articles clean, we are conducting a public lab on vandalism detection. The goal is the development of a practical vandalism detector that is capable of telling apart ill-intentioned edits from well-intentioned edits. Such a tool, which will work somewhat like a spam detector, will release the crowd's workforce currently occupied with manual and semi-automatic edit filtering. The performance of submitted detectors will be evaluated based on a large collection of human-annotated edits, which has been crowdsourced using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Everyone is welcome to participate." · http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/02/28/1946216

Two of the defendants in the Pirate Bay trial (#spectrial if you're following it on Twitter) gave evidence today in the case in a Swedish court. They said they don't read contracts they sign, don't check the speeches they write, and the law - well, what's the use of that? · http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charlesarthur

Site founder Larry Sanger denies academic's claims of slow development and infighting, writes John Gill · http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405097

Through a new developer program, Google is letting people try the latest versions of its Chrome Web browser, and the first update is available. · http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10042670-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

When news broke on May 8 about the arrest of a half-dozen young Muslim men for supposedly planning to attack Fort Dix, alongside the usual range of reactions — disbelief, paranoia, outrage, indifference, prurience — a newer one was added: the desire to consecrate the event’s significance by creating a Wikipedia page about it. · http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=72637d907b6d73b4&ex=1183867200&emc=eta1