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• @wikimedia @wikimedia on x

  The @Wikimedia Foundation statement about the recent @YouTube announcement http://twitter.com/...

• @phoebe_ayers Phoebe Ayers on x

  Also! @YouTube should probably run some A/B tests with the crew at @WikiResearch first. Does linking result in increased traffic? Increased vandalism? It's not polite to treat Wikipedia like an endlessly renewable resource with infinite free labor; what's the impact?

• @dangillmor Dan Gillmor on x

  It would have been polite for YouTube to let Wikipedia know that it (YouTube) was going to rely (misguidedly IMO) on Wikipedia content to combat conspiracy theories on YouTube. But no advance notice. http://twitter.com/... http://twitter.com/...

• @noupside Renee DiResta on x

  So it seems YouTube didn't actually give Wikipedia a heads' up that hordes of conspiracy theorists are now incentivized to flood their articles with Alterative Facts. http://twitter.com/...

• @wikimedia @wikimedia on x

  You may have heard that @YouTube is going to start linking videos about conspiracies to @Wikipedia articles. Here's our statement about this, and a few words about how Wikipedia works. http://twitter.com/...

• @phoebe_ayers Phoebe Ayers on x

  ...huh. 1) ok, seems fine. Hope they credit us appropriately 2) I don't think YouTube can rely on our irregularly updated *encyclopedia* to solve its ranking algorithm/hate speech issue; ppl don't read refs. 3) web 2.0 is wierd, man. /goes back to working on Wikipedia articles ht…

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  it is pretty wild how little communication went into the YouTube/Wikipedia thing (from YTs end). This exchange over Twitter is very telling (the language issue is...a big deal!) pic.twitter.com/DydjdoKUOb

• @phoebe_ayers Phoebe Ayers on x

  Ps hopefully this won't lead to a bunch of ppl trying to “fix” the Wikipedia articles, which are clearly wrong, the video told them so. Sigh.

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  To underline this: This wasn't an idea YouTube's CEO floated up, spur of the moment. This was a planned announcement, time to SXSW talk, with PR folks prepped with graphics, etc. http://twitter.com/...

• @3psboyd Matt Boyd on x

  It's been a day and I'm still kind of awed by YouTube's plan to give the fever swamps a link to Wikipedia and say “Your problem now, bitch.” http://www.buzzfeed.com/...

• @tradechat Panser on x

  Wikipedia is not a valid source Susan. http://www.theverge.com/...

• @kenvogel Kenneth P. Vogel on x

  Right, because @Wikipedia is an unimpeachable arbiter of truth. http://www.buzzfeed.com/...