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Wikipedia to Get Video Soon
Within the next few months, Wikipedia will get video. Editors will be able to add video elements to articles in the same way they can currently add photos. This also includes a push to get some of the widely-visible videos owned by larger media companies into the public... Wolfram Alpha - Interesting competition for Google and Wikipedia?
"In a talk at Harvard Law School, Stephen Wolfram, a well-known mathematician, scientist and entrepreneur, gave a demonstration of his soon-to-be released Web service which promises to answer all sorts of questions.... Activist Editors at Wikipedia Censor 'Active Thermitic Material'
Activist editors at Wikipedia have changed the name of the "World Trade Center Controlled Demolition Hypothesis" page to "World Trade Center Demolition Conspiracy Theories", are removing all links to the paper... 1124 views | 31 recommendations | 26 comments
Taxpayers Being 'Fist Bumped' by Democrats
Until Barack and Michelle Obama received so much attention in the press after exchanging one on the campaign trail, I wasn't very familiar with the "fist bump." So I decided to do some research. The Wikipedia... PediaPress | Print Your Favorite Wikipedia Articles As Books
Techcruch carried an interesting note on how you can create a book by importing wikipedia pages. What is great is that you can create a book on any topic, sort information by chapters and PediaPress takes care of typesetting, printing and shipping. PediaPress allows you to... India launches Agricultural Wikipedia
Scientists in India have launched an Agricultural Wikipedia, which will act as an online database of agricultural information in the country. It goes by the name of Agropedia. It provides crop and region... Wikipedia: Information Strangled by Pedantic Geekism
[EDITED] i left this for the folks at Wikipedia just a few minutes ago. As with most attempts to interact with the people who "admin" that thing, i expect it to vanish without a contextual or meaningful... Wikipedia Ponders Editorial Reviews After Kennedy Death Post
When Senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd collapsed at President Obama's inauguration lunch the internet lit up with people looking for updated news of their health. Wikipedia, a trusted user-generated... Wikipedia founder makes personal appeal for support
If you use wikipedia as much as I do you no doubt have seen their fund raising efforts in action. Now the sites founder Jimmy Wales has penned a letter personally appealling to the huge number of people who... 73.4 Percent of Wikipedia Edits Made By Roughly 1,400 People
"There are millions of people who browse Wikipedia in any given month, but only 2 percent of them (roughly 1,400) are responsible for editing nearly 75 percent of the information on the entire website." full story google Wikipedia Surpasses $6 Million Fundraising Goal
Leave it to Jimmy Wales to make a personal appeal to die-hard wikipedians as well as general web-users to help the online encyclopedia site, Wikipedia, reach its fundraising goal of $6 million in order to contine operating, free from advertising, in 2009."Wikipedia has met... 1. Mumbai Attacks: 2008 in Review
" 2008's Top 10 Moments in User-Generated News 1. Mumbai attacks2. Natural disasters: Emergency info 3. SF Olympic torch relay protests 4. ...
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Album cover from 1976 Censored causing 95% U.K ISP's blacklist
" Wikipedia Article Censored in UK for the First Time Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Dec 8, 2008 5:00 am " Now I don't agree with the album cover by any strech of the imagination. But come on it has been out... Mumbai Terror: Evidence being deliberately ignored!
"Strange that none of the media (TV or Print) have picked this up at all. Or have they been deliberately ignoring it? Have a look at the above picture of one of the terrorists. [Another angle] Notice the orange thread / band on his right hand. Tying a red thread or cord... Agendas on Wiki (for example, Wiki and feminism)
I know we shouldn't highlight whole pieces but as the blog piece below was written as one paragraph, I think it was pertinent here. The main message from the piece is that people aren't sufficiently critical of the information they find on Wiki, and that they could do with...
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