Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits'

Wikipedia is becoming the real source of everything. More powerful entities also, focus on the content of the Wikipedia. The following news will tells us what people really want to do with Wikipedia - A free encyclopedia. "An online tool that claims to reveal the...

Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits'

"An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries. Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's computers made edits to the page of Iran's president. It...

See Who's Editing Wikipedia: Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

"Inspired by news last year that Congress members' offices had been editing their own [Wikipedia] entries, Griffith says he got curious, and wanted to know whether big companies and other organizations were doing...

The encyclopedias are useful educational tools

The encyclopedias are useful educational tools and the better-known digital encyclopedia is WIKIPEDIA, despite now a new digital encyclopedia exists in almost 30 languages that are an emulator or rival of...

The Wikipedia source is safe? : a controversy still not solved

One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This radical and rapidly growing publication, which includes close to 4 million entries,...

Google vs Jimmy Wales & Open Source Search

"Jimmy Wales, the founder of not-for profit Wikipedia and for-profit, San Mateo, Calif.-based Wikia is part of a growing number of people who are discomforted by the growing control Google over search. And he is doing something about it. His company, Wikia, last week bought...

Duality of Wikipedia

On one hand, it's indispensable; on the other, it's the ultimate resource on things that don't matter -"There was once an Englishman named John Locke, who had some interesting thoughts about political theory....

Does Google Still Matter?

There was a story today in Advertising Age about how McDonalds is trying to re-brand the McJob as something that doesn't suck (good luck with that). So I went to Google to see what came up in their results for...

Wiki Innovators Rethink Openness

This is the first piece of crowdsourced journalism produced by the Assignment Zero project - a collaboration between Wired and NewAssignment.net - and a huge group of both professional and amateur contributors and...

Suing the Internet: Can You Even Do That?

Can you imagine if everyone who felt insulted by anything posted online could sue the site that held that posting?"The hosts of the speed-of-light world of Internet blogs and interactive websites that publish anonymous commentary should be forced to pay when reputations are...

Internet hosts should be made to pay for libellous statements, suit contends

"The hosts of the speed-of-light world of Internet blogs and interactive websites that publish anonymous commentary should be forced to pay when reputations are damaged, says a former Green Party staff member who...

Chinese Turn To Japanese For Online Porn

"Much ado has been made over China's constant efforts to protect its citizens from the nefarious influence of free flowing Internet information. Falun Gong, Wikipedia, Reporters Without Borders, BBC News, any reference to June 4, 1989, Taiwan independence or a free Tibet are...

More Wikipedian Growing Pains: More Than One Way To Drop An Egg

When I was a camp counselor, there was a game we'd play with the kids in which they would divide into teams and build a contraption that would protect a raw egg from breaking when it was dropped from atop a...

Do misogynists keep their promises?

There is a big debate right now surrounding Tim Oreilly’s proposed blogging code of conduct. I was interviewed yesterday and this is my point of view: ""I'm not sure a code of conduct is the answer," NowPublic co-founder Mike Tippett said. "It makes about as much sense as...

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