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People wanting to visit Wikipedia, or any other site associated with the Wikimedia foundation which runs the online encyclopedia, several hours ago were greeted by an error message. All the sites, including the top ten web destination Wikipedia, were down due to what were later revealed to be power failures at its da... |
5 July 2010
05:42 GMT |
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One of Wikipedia’s biggest advantages, the ability for anyone to edit any page, is also one of its biggest drawbacks. The site is constantly facing vandalism or users with personal agendas. Trying to keep the content on the site objective is a daunting task and some of the more controversial pages and topics ar... |
15 June 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Wikipedia is getting ready to roll out a major redesign that has been in the works for over a year now. There are plenty of changes, among the most noticeable are the brand-new theme, a much-needed refresh over the current aging design, a revamped logo and plenty of usability changes. The redesign has been in testin... |
13 May 2010
09:16 GMT |
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For all the scare-mongering about books and reading, first, the TV should have killed them, now it’s the Internet, people seem to be doing a lot more reading than ever before. Still, all the content online has spoiled us and we’ve come to expect being able to access any information at any time. Luckily, t... |
7 May 2010
06:24 GMT |
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Facebook is getting ready for its annual developer conference, f8, scheduled for later this week, and it has already started rolling out new features and announcements. First up, Facebook is officially announcing Community Pages, after being launched quietly a couple of weeks ago. At the same time, Facebook is revamp... |
20 April 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Wikipedia is getting ready to launch a redesign that has been in the works for several months now. The new theme, dubbed Vector, is much more pleasing to the eye than the current design, but is also more ergonomic and focuses on several things that should make the site easier to use. The new theme will be rolled out ... |
26 March 2010
05:10 GMT |
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It was a bad day for huge websites today, as both Wikipedia and YouTube experienced problems that made them unavailable for plenty of users for more than an hour. The issues at Wikipedia have been linked to an overheating problem at one of the European data centers, while Google has yet to clarify the YouTube issue. ... |
25 March 2010
11:41 GMT |
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Videos on Wikipedia have been an option for some time now but so far adoption has been pretty slow and the vast majority of Wikipedia entries don't have any video files associated. This is the reason why the Open Video Alliance and other parties are launching a campaign, called "Let’s Get Video on Wikipedi... |
18 March 2010
11:34 GMT |
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We can safely say now that the world of today is a lot different than it was a century ago. This is especially true when it comes to information sources, and also the amount of data available to all people. In the past, publications such as the New York Times and the Encyclopedia Britannica were setting the norm when... |
18 February 2010
03:23 GMT |
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Wikipedia is such an integral part of the web that most people don't even give it a second thought anymore. And much like everything else online, the site is completely free and available to anyone. Unlike most other sites, Wikipedia doesn't have advertising, there isn't a Wikipedia Pro, and has no oth... |
17 February 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the world and one of the most heavily trafficked. Yet, it doesn't have much of a revenue stream, in the traditional sense, and sticking to its core principles with all the content being available for everyone for free and with no advertising. Instead, it's maki... |
4 January 2010
08:45 GMT |
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Wikipedia is in the midst of its sixth annual fund raiser to keep the site going. Run by the Wikimedia foundation, a non-profit organization, and with no revenue source of any kind, Wikipedia relies solely on donations to finance its operations and pay its 35 employees. The 2009 fund raiser has been running for more... |
18 December 2009
05:28 GMT |
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There are a lot of metrics for website traffic, unique visitors, user numbers, and the likes. Measuring a website's “influence” is a harder proposition though, it's not exactly something you can count. Some people beg to differ though and ://URLFAN aims to do just this, measure a website's... |
25 November 2009
05:47 GMT |
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News about Wikipedia's impending demise have come and gone, but the world's largest encyclopedia seems to be enduring. This won't last for long, according to a researcher from Spain who points at the dwindling number of volunteer editors as a clear sign that the site is headed to the dust bin. The stud... |
23 November 2009
11:58 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and, for good reason, the encyclopedia has become the best single place online to find any kind of information from science facts to TV show trivia. But the site, unlike many online services, is not commercial, meaning that the growing costs of infrastructur... |
11 November 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Google Custom Search is now three years old and to mark the occasion the search giant has introduced a couple of new features and a brand-new Custom Search Wikipedia Skin that enables users to extend the functionality of the built-in Wikipedia search. The skin comes with quite a few enhancements but it's unfortu... |
27 October 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s for-profit initiative that allows users to create their own wikis on any subject matter they fancy, has been seeing strong growth in the last six months and is now profitable. In the past year, user numbers have more than doubled, going from 2.8 million unique visitors in ... |
9 September 2009
10:00 GMT |
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A study conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation and the United Nations University program, MERIT, has shown that, from 175,000 users with valid survey responses, 53,884 have acknowledged contributing to Wikipedia, 87% of them being male responders. Also from the total users that only read Wikipedia articles, 31% of the... |
8 September 2009
05:35 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Wikipedia managed to amass more than three million articles; this week is Wikimedia Commons' turn to take the glory. A scan of a 1838 Danish newspaper called Kjobenhavnsposten was uploaded by user Saddhiyama to the Commons image repository, thus marking the fifth million file uploaded by a user.... |
3 September 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Wikipedia has become one of the biggest websites and one of the most relied-upon sources of information. Many critics, though, point at the site's problems with inaccuracies, vandalism, biased content and the likes and say that it's far from a reliable source of information. While this isn't representa... |
31 August 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Larry Sanger, one of the wiz kids that founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales in 2001, has recognized in a Citizendium mailing list that he's thinking about resigning as Editor-in-Chief from his current position to work more on his newest project, entitled WatchKnow.After working and founding web-encyclopedias... |
26 August 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Wikipedia has grown to become by far the biggest encyclopedia in the world, with over three million articles, one of the top ten sites online and the first place where many people look for information. Its huge growth in popularity is in no small part due to its egalitarian nature and the fact that everyone could edi... |
25 August 2009
07:02 GMT |
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The Wikimedia Foundation has finally released a Wikipedia standalone app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Distributed for free via the iTunes App Store, Wikipedia Mobile is described as focusing on simplicity and speed. While Wikipedia Mobile is, indeed, simple and easy to use, the app doesn’t award the latter ac... |
19 August 2009
06:24 GMT |
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While some are quick to predict Wikipedia's collapse, as the number of new articles added has been going down in recent years, the site actually celebrated the creation of its 3 millionth English article several hours ago. The article is an entry on a Norwegian actress and film director named Beate Eriksen, and ... |
17 August 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Wikipedia, one of the biggest web sites in the world, is getting ready for a new, fresher look and has launched the proposed redesign in beta. As expected from one of the most recognizable sites online, the changes aren't groundbreaking but they do make for a cleaner and more modern look. The new design is avail... |
10 August 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Wikipedia has become one of the biggest sites in the world and many users rely on it almost everyday either for school and even research, but also other less educational purposes. It's hard to imagine how the web looked like before Wikipedia, but a new study revealed some troubling statistics showing that the si... |
5 August 2009
11:47 GMT |
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The legal dispute between the British National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of London and a Wikipedia contributor, American Derrick Coetzee, has taken a new turn as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an international non-profit organization that fights for freedom of speech with a focus on “digital rights,&rdq... |
4 August 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Wikipedia, one of the largest and most visited sites in the world, is currently unavailable for most users, with the site displaying an error message. As you'd expect, Twitter is alright, with many predicting doom and gloom, but very little actual information, the real-time web at its finest. In fact, the downti... |
31 July 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Over the years, as more and more homes started getting access to computers and the Internet, a shift was recorded in the classical sources people turned to in order to get their medical information. Rather than visiting the doctor's office, many people now prefer browsing for a response to their questions online... |
29 July 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Wikipedia is a constant source of controversy coming as a natural side effect of the openness and the number of different ideas and opinions trying to coexist on the site. If it isn't scientologists, it's public institutions that are getting roused up by the organization. And now some vocal groups of psycho... |
29 July 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Those still skeptic about the reliability of the content on Wikipedia will have one less argument now that a new partnership between the US National Institutes of Health and the Wikimedia Foundation was put in place. The aim is to have the scientists at NIH contribute content and overview some of the entries from the... |
22 July 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Last week, the National Portrait Gallery in London sent a Wikipedia user a letter threatening legal action after he uploaded 3,300 photos of paintings housed at the state-owned gallery. While the legality of the claims is debatable, Wikipedia has now issued its own statement backing the user and accusing the gallery ... |
18 July 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Wikipedia has been working on video support for years now, but the rumors about an impending launch are intensifying. And now, Erik Moller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is saying that the new feature is coming very soon in the coming months, and that there are already some pages with video content ena... |
18 July 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Yesterday, July 16th, members and contributors for the Wikimedia Foundation, owners of Wikipedia, met with National Institute of Health (NIH) representatives to discuss the portrayal of health and medical information on the above mentioned online encyclopedia. The event, included in the Wikimedia Academy program for ... |
17 July 2009
08:43 GMT |
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A Wikipedia user who uploaded thousands of photos of portraits from the British National Portrait Gallery in London is now apparently threatened with legal actions by the museum. The user is accused of downloading thousands of high-resolution photos from the National Gallery's website and then making them availa... |
13 July 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Wikimedia Foundation has just received a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support its Wikimedia Commons project. The money will go into research, to find the reasons keeping some users from participating, as well as into redesigning the upload process.“The global community that is building Wikimedia C... |
3 July 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Early last week, Maine, US-born journalist David Rohde, a reporter for The New York Times, managed to successfully escape the grasp of his Taliban captors, in Afghanistan, and to safely return home. Most of the world did not learn about his capture until he succeeded in making his daring escape, and there's a go... |
29 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Wikipedia will, apparently, add video capabilities to its site within a couple of months, aiming to enhance its functionality. Wikipedia is the seventh largest website in the world and shows up in the top results for most searches. Three sources for the videos will be initially available and the site will use open st... |
19 June 2009
11:29 GMT |
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Google is, apparently, experimenting with adding Wikipedia entries to its Google News results, as some users report being shown links to Wikipedia among the ones from traditional news outlets. This may be a big move for the service, but it may be of an even greater importance to the Internet as a whole, for, up until... |
11 June 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Fotopedia, the online photo sharing and organizing service, has been in private beta for a couple of months and was revealed as a read-only preview last week with a “coming in a few days” promise. Now the promise has been honored and the service is finally available to the public. The brainchild of Jean-M... |
11 June 2009
03:58 GMT |
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In what is the first move on behalf of Wikipedia against such a large group of users, members of the Church of Scientology have been banned from the site following the notification that users had been editing articles to serve their own interest. In order to continue promoting and further encourage objectivity, the s... |
29 May 2009
11:37 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the world and for good reason, as it brings a wealth of user-created information to the masses, and it's almost hard to imagine how we got by before it was launched. Its content has grown rapidly over the years but the design and features have remained basically the ... |
28 May 2009
04:17 GMT |
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The Wikimedia Foundation and the wireless carrier Orange have announced a deal through which the online encyclopedia Wikipedia will be offered to mobile phone users as a standalone product, but also integrated into the operator's existing content services. According to the two, Wikipedia will come initially to O... |
24 April 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Despite being launched only 14 months ago, the Wikia search engine project has now been abandoned by Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, on account of the fact that the small engine could not measure up with giant Google. The project, which was officially shut down on Wednesday, was in... |
2 April 2009
09:18 GMT |
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Google's Knol website has recently received its 100,000th article, known as knol, and the search engine was pleased to announce on its official blog that things were starting to go its way. The rapid expansion of the new website, which is only 5 months old, is nothing but good news, and everybody at Google expre... |
20 January 2009
17:01 GMT |
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The famous Internet encyclopedia announced on Friday that it managed to reach its $6 million fund raising target for this fiscal year, with contributions from more than 125,000 people, who donated some $4 million, an average of $32 each. The rest of the money, approximately $2 million, came from various projects the ... |
5 January 2009
03:36 GMT |
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The popular online encyclopedia, featuring millions of articles on the most diverse topics, in more than 250 languages, should not be regarded as an authority in drugs and therapies, a new study, published in the December 2008 issue of Annals of Pharmacotherapy, finds. The research was led by Dr. Kevin A. Clauson, at... |
25 November 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Google announced yesterday the launch of Knol, "a unit of knowledge", as its creators have entitled it. Knol is an online encyclopedia with topics from all fields and with articles that can be written by anyone who considers himself or herself up to the task. The only condition, however, is the disclosure of the pers... |
24 July 2008
03:19 GMT |
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If you are having trouble concentrating while reading, suffering from poor eyesight, or simply want to do more with your time, the guys at Shiny Development have this great application for you called Speakapedia. It creates podcasts from Wikipedia articles, imports them to your iTunes library and lets you play them. ... |
17 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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A group of eight researchers has managed to carry out an interesting project - they created 7,500 original stubs and modified other 600 on Wikipedia, in order to develop a complete description of the human genome. The team has decided to introduce their initiative to the public via a scientific magazine, PloS Biology... |
11 July 2008
06:42 GMT |
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