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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
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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, owner 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 t... |
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
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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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Leopard's built-in Dictionary application is a very useful tool. You can use it to look up words in the New Oxford American Dictionary, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, the Apple Dictionary and, more recently, Wikipedia!That's right, whenever the first three sources don't do you any good (w... |
6 June 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Wikipedia, most probably your favorite online encyclopedia, receives most of its traffic from Google. While this might not be completely unexpected, it is now a certainty with the recent release of study made by Nielsen Online. The online encyclopedia draws all but 10 percent of its traffic from search engines and ot... |
15 May 2008
06:14 GMT |
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In case you haven't visited Google Maps recently, you're probably not aware of its latest updates. This last Tuesday, users visiting Google maps have been faced with a new functionality. Between the Traffic and Map buttons, a new "More..." button has surfaced. The new button has been set to provide users wi... |
15 May 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Wikipedia is quite a popular service these days and this has a serious impact over the software market as some software companies developed applications especially to work on the online encyclopedia. Powerset is one of them but it may provide a really interesting alternative to the main Wikipedia search technology be... |
12 May 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Those who say that Wikipedia isn't one of the most important web services nowadays should think twice. Because it surely is. But this is not enough and Wikimedia Foundation which owns Wikipedia is planning to do even more than that. According to several reports, Wikipedia will be released in printed version in G... |
24 April 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Wikipedia has always been a community-based website available for free for all the users on the web. However, due to maintenance costs and other expenses, users were invited to donate money to the Foundation in order to keep the service alive and provide more and more articles to the web.However, the biggest donation... |
27 March 2008
03:40 GMT |
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This time, we're actually talking about an iPhone exclusive app, since GeoPedia needs a network signal in order to provide positioning. GeoPedia takes advantage of the iPhone's geographic positioning functionality via Google Maps My Location (available starting with firmware v1.1.3) to display Wikipedia art... |
25 March 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is a scandal magnet in the past days, as he managed to break up with his girlfriend via Wikipedia announcement, has been held accountable for spending some of his company's funds for personal purposes and, now, because he erased a $5,000 donor's embarrassing page history. Hold yer horses... |
7 March 2008
18:46 GMT |
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," William Congreve wrote in 1697 in the play "The Mourning Bride." Many people wrongly attribute this quote to Shakespeare, but it could have been said by anybody who failed to meet a woman's expectations, any man can testify t... |
3 March 2008
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Religion has dragged behind it many bloody wars for as long as history can count and it's most definitely not going to stop now. With time, though, man has increasingly become more rational and has begun to value life over everything else. The wars fought today don't involve capes and medieval swords, but a... |
7 February 2008
06:08 GMT |
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TinFinger was launched yesterday to be the user-generated omnibus the market seemed to need. Or, at least that's what its founders must have thought feeling a lack of sites that contain information on celebrities on the web and considering that another would be most welcome.It is designed to combine encyclopedic... |
15 January 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Research essays on Google and Wikipedia? We can't have that, said Tara Brabazon, a lecturer from the University of Brighton, who got furious with the quality of the work her students had been doing. Seeing that it was banal and mediocre exactly because it was a reflection of what search engines provided, she sto... |
14 January 2008
19:06 GMT |
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It's going to be a competitor to Google, they said. It's going to have human element, they said. It will not be as great when it will be released, but it is open source and it will have enormous possibilities to grow, they said. Well, at least they got part of the last one right. It's not in the same z... |
7 January 2008
19:51 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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