The complete Encyclopedia of Life, (EOL), the most comprehensive database about the earth and all the life that lives here, will be made available for free online for the first time ever. "It is an ambitious,...
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Now there is a wikipedia for pornography too. Named as Carnalpedia this is a "free, peer-editable adult graphic encyclopedia about sex" as described in the homepage .Carnalpedia is compliant with RTA Labels that...
"Are you bored of your standard notebook? We have a very cool replacement that is sure to make many heads turn. Smooth Creations have come up with Smoothbook DR notebook that is more of an encyclopedia than a...
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As NowPublic reported earlier this year, author JK Rowling filed a lawsuit against Steven Vander Ark for his attempt to publish a fan-created, but unauthorized, Harry Potter encyclopedia.Today it was announced...
A new project to compile the largest online medical resource is underway. It's based on the same technology used by Wikipedia and is intended to make esoteric medical information widely accessible and easy to...
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The most popular 50, 000 terms on the German Wikipedia website will be turned into a 750 page book, a German publisher announced last week, at the Wikipedia conference in Alexandria, Egypt."That means France's...
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Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of...
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"The Bush administration was forced yesterday to issue a grovelling apology to the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, after White House officials briefed the travelling US press corps that Berlusconi was...
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Wikipedia finds itself in an enviable position, one of increasing success. But finding a business plan that balances the company's enormous potential for growth with its non-profit independence is proving...
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J.K. Rowling says her lawsuit against a man trying to print an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopedia is giving her writer's block. The Harry Potter mastermind said in court her distress isn't about the money, but...
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Wikipedia fascinates me. Its creators' intentions were so straightforward: create a user-powered encyclopedia that can be changed as our understanding evolves, and as new technology and memes emerge. Since those...
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"New Delhi (ABC Live): Jimmy Wales, the founder of world famed online encyclopedia, Wikipedia has been accused content tampering in lieu of $5000 donation in Wikipedia."
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"Washington (ANTARA News) - The first 30,000 pages of the online Encyclopedia of Life were unveiled Wednesday as part of an ambitious project to catalogue the 1.8 million species known on Earth.
In an immediate sign of its success, the Internet site www.eol.org was quickly...
Collaborative 'knowledge-building' websites, like Wikipedia, rely on users' participation, along with some semblance of community, in order to function effectively. But who contributes to Wikipedia and why? The...
As the Wikimedia Foundation continues its donations drive, revelations
about its recent chief operating officer show that, well---research is, indeed,
important. Carolyn Bothwell Doran's background included kiting...
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