Wikitorial

A wikitorial is a term coined by the Los Angeles Times to describe a traditional editorial that can be edited in the fashion of a wiki (computer software that allows users to edit text and make changes to one document). On June 17 2005 the Los Angeles Times wrote the first Wikitorial, entitled: War and Consequences. The new Wikitorial was about the War in Iraq. Below that editorial they wrote an invitation to their readers to rewrite the editorial in the wiki fashion. They called their experiment a "public beta" and suggested that it may be a failure or a new form of opinion journalism.

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Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia, was one of the early contributors to the new Wikitorial which inspired a counterpoint editorial, redirections and much discussion.

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Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. With a circulation of 907,997 readers per day as of May 2005, it is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States (after...

Editorial: An editorial is a statement or article by a news organization (generally a newspaper) that expresses an opinion rather than attempting to simply report news, as the latter should ideally be done without bias. Editorials are often not written by the regular reporters of the news organization, and are...

Wiki: A wiki (IPA: /wi?ki?/, "weekee" http://c2.com/doc/etymology.html) is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows others (often completely unrestricted) to edit the content. The term Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a...