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Wikipedia thrives on the collaborative effort of everyone on the web, well the ones that make the effort to actually add something to the site rather than just consume it. And, while there are plenty of people that make one or two changes and call it a day, a few become dedicated editors and contributors.None are as ... |
22 April 2012
02:21 GMT |
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Wikipedia is getting ready to adopt web fonts for its pages. Far from being a cosmetic choice, the idea is to enable everyone online to read and write content in their own languages. Most local fonts, used by websites, offer little or no support for non-Western scripts, and this has been stifling web adoption in many... |
12 December 2011
11:22 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the few constants of the web, or at least that's how it appears on the surface. While the site has only been around for 10 years, it's hard to imagine the web without it and we constantly rely on it without even noticing.But things do change at Wikipedia as well, just not as fast as with... |
10 May 2011
11:51 GMT |
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For quite some time now, Wikipedia has faced a couple of problems, less new editors, and poor quality content. A new study, albeit a relatively small scale one, shows that none of these problems may be as big as it may seem."Increasing participation is one of the top five priorities in our strategic plan. But when we... |
18 April 2011
06:30 GMT |
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Wikipedia has just celebrated its tenth birthday. The affair drew thousands of people in hundreds of events, mainly heavy users and editors of the site. Wikipedia also ended its biggest year in terms of donations. Despite its successes, the site is looking to grow even bigger and even faster. Yet there are those that... |
17 January 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Wikipedia is turning 10 tomorrow. It's hard to imagine the web without it, despite the criticism and the controversy, it could be argued that Wikipedia's impact on the world's access to knowledge is only comparable to that of the (rest of the) internet as a whole. The site is celebrating its tenth bir... |
14 January 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Julian Assange, the founder and some say iron-fisted ruler of WikiLeaks, is facing several legal threats and he has now signed a couple of book deals which, he says, will help him fund his and the site's defence if the case may be.He revealed that he has signed a deal with the US publisher Alfred A Knopf, a unit... |
27 December 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Wikia, the for profit wiki project created by the co-founder of Wikipedia, is getting a big revamp today with the launch of the so-called Wikia 2.0. The new site comes with a fresh new look, at least for the common pages, and a number of new features that should make it more appealing to a larger audience.One of the ... |
10 November 2010
11:59 GMT |
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Wikipedia is now running a limited test enabling readers and users to rate articles in some key aspects. This, Wikipedia believes will drive engagement and provide valuable and accurate feedback to developers. The basic principle behind Wikipedia is that anyone can edit or add content. The idea, when the site first... |
24 September 2010
02:56 GMT |
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With Wikileaks struggling to stay afloat and find funding and with one of its alleged sources up for trial in the US, some had been heralding the demise of the site. But it looks like Julian Assage and company were just getting started, over the weekend the site has disclosed some 92,000 US military documents regardi... |
26 July 2010
04:20 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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A man has been arrested after he was linked to the leaking of a classified US military video that ended up on the whistle-blower site Wikileaks. Specialist Bradley Manning with the US military was arrested by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division at the Forward Operating Base Hammer in Iraq, where he was s... |
7 June 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Wikileaks has been in the news recently not for the controversial scoops it regularly publishes but for its financial troubles. The site was taken offline until the necessary funding was raised for it to operate, but it is now coming back with a vengeance. The latest document published on the whistleblower site is a ... |
16 March 2010
11:01 GMT |
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There's money to be made in wikis, at least that's what Wikia is now claiming. Wikia is a wiki platform service offering anyone the possibility to start a new wiki centering on almost any topic, from Star Wars, to Twilight, to gardening. Even if you're not familiar with the site, you've probably ... |
8 February 2010
04:45 GMT |
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Wikileaks, the whistle-blower site that has made the rounds since its launch thanks to revealing more than a few secretes and sensitive documents from governments or corporations, has announced that it managed to raise enough money to stay afloat for another year. The site had shut down temporarily last week, saying ... |
5 February 2010
10:53 GMT |
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The Internet has been a real liberator but even online some of the harsh realities of life are as present as ever. Making information available is the cheapest it has ever been but it's not free. Wikipedia knows this, which is why it struggles every year to raise the money needed to operate. A wiki of another na... |
29 January 2010
11:02 GMT |
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Designed and developed by Dan Greuel, SnowChecker is a desktop application based on the Wiki-based Snow Leopard Compatibility website. Thanks to the thousands of users adding compatibility data to snowleopard.wikidot.com, the program can effectively show which apps are fully or partially compatible with Snow Leopard,... |
9 October 2009
04:41 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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Since its debut around Snow Leopard’s launch, the Mac OS X 10.6 Application Compatibility page has been updated to include some 1,600 applications that have been tested under Snow Leopard. As you would imagine, some apps are buggy, others are simply incompatible, while most applications reported on the Wiki are... |
8 September 2009
08:12 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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Mahalo is part search engine part wiki, providing human-created results to common searches. In order to spur further growth the site added monetary rewards for its editors and now Business Insider got a hold of the site's creator, Jason Calcanis, a well-known figure in the industry, to provide an update on how t... |
11 August 2009
09:14 GMT |
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TuneWiki Ltd. has released an incredible media player application for iPhone and iPod touch that allows users to browse and play their existing playlists, while getting album art and lyrics for free, over the air, instantly. The app also makes YouTube suggestions based on what one's listening to, and has built-i... |
15 July 2009
08:15 GMT |
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Mahalo is another search engine competing in a crowded yet clearly dominated market and, just like any other search engine, it's trying to offer something very different if it's going to drive people from Google. As such, what makes it different is that it relies on its users to create the results rather th... |
3 June 2009
04:43 GMT |
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The Google Page Creator service won't have the chance to make it to the Google Apps, because the company is planning to completely replace it with its new Google Sites. In preparation for this, sign-up for the Google Page Creator has already been closed, while an announcement on the home page of the project noti... |
4 August 2008
04:21 GMT |
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Many companies believe that the use of web 2.0 applications leads to a lower quality of work, because employees tend to forget about their daily tasks and rather concentrate on instant messaging or on updating their profiles on social networks. A recent study from Forrester proves that the outlook has changed. "Our r... |
14 July 2008
06:04 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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Jimmy Whales, the Wikipedia founder, is shooting for the stars with the latest project that he has announced and he hopes to eventually challenge Google and other established players with the Wikia Search project, an open source search project (but I do believe that the name gave that away and I did not need to speci... |
28 December 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Wiki... When you say "Wiki" you automatically think at wikipedia, which is one of the best websites around. There you can find everything you need to know about everything. The main advantage is that everyone can contribute, so everybody can help. According to Wikipedia, the first such software to be called a wiki, W... |
9 October 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Google acquired JotSpot in October 2006 and everybody was talking about some new technologies prepared by the search giant that might attack the enterprise social industry. Until now, the Mountain View company didn't reveal any sign that it might be interested in this side of the market but, as Michael Arrington... |
4 September 2007
14:51 GMT |
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The solution for an easy shifting for oneself through the density of web pages is linked browsing or, as some call it, the "Wiki" system. The name is borrowed from the Hawaiian language (fast) and it was first used by Ward Cunningham in his WikiWikiWeb site (www.c2.com/cgi/wiki). The wiki system is all about markup l... |
29 March 2007
13:35 GMT |
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