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MADRID, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The number of people contributing to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia shrank by 49,000 in the first three months of the year, a Spanish researcher said. Full Article at United Press International
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A sign of flagging interest? Or just a lack of desire to do free work in tough economic times? Full Article at National Post
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It is the responsibility of both governments and firms to co-create a set of indicators for risks that are knowable unknowns. Full Article at Hindu Business Line
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Slaw is a cooperative Canadian weblog on things legal. Lawyers will always be free to decide how they chose to practice law; the market will, however, decide who the winners and the losers are. Full Article at Slaw
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From comedy to sci-fi, 2009 dosed us with a healthy mix of the cerebral and the surreal. There’s much to give thanks for over the Thanksgiving holiday, so let’s reminisce about the people, places and things that made this year memorable. Full Article at Wired
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Cal Performances — Ira Glass bring his Radio Stories and Other Stories to Cal, 8 p.m. Dec. 5, $20-$36, tickets available at the door. Full Article at Inside Bay Area
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It's no myster why fewer and fewer people are bothering to contribute: The research found that in the first three months of this year the English-language version of the site suffered a net loss of 49,000 contributors, compared with a loss of about 4,... Full Article at Vox Popoli
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2009-11-25 19:06:05 - come to rely on it for. Full Article at PR-Inside.com
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Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia "lost" 49,000 of its volunteer editors in the first three months of 2009, University research suggests. The figure compares with a loss of 4,900 over the same period in 2008. Full Article at BBC News
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Wikipedia has banned editing from machines inside Volvo Information Technology - the outfit that operates the Swedish auto maker's IT infrastructure - after someone in the organization vandalized the free encyclopedia with a pair of profanity-laden... Full Article at The Register
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Things are all back to normal in the hotel at least from a hot water in our room to be able to shower and get ready for another day of sightseeing. Full Article at Travel Blog
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Wikipedia tops list of sites most linked to in blogs So who made the top 10? And who is first? Well, as with last year, the most mentioned website is Wikipedia. And how are British news organisations doing? Full Article at PDA - Digital Content Blog | The Guardian
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Guest article by Indu. How can you overtake Wikipedia in Search Results? I run into this problem quite often. I first encountered this problem around 6 months ago while working on a client’s website. Full Article at Quick Online Tips
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Well, you have a cite on Wiki. Can't argue with the facts. How much more can we write about Louis Pasteur or the Treaty of Worms or Heilongjiang? Wikipedia has had a ton of stuff poured into it and doesn't really need new contributors. Full Article at Slashdot
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The video showing the destruction of 46 of the 55 Chrysler Turbine Cars we posted recently generated lots of heated discussion. The key issue is, and has been for years, whether import tariffs played a material role in Chrysler’s decision. Full Article at The Truth About Cars
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Two yeoman warders sacked for treatment of Moira Cameron Investigation at Tower followed allegations of Wikipedia abuse Tower authorities launched an internal inquiry four-and-a-half weeks ago in response to complaints that Moira Cameron had been... Full Article at Metro.co.uk
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And should we care? According to new research, the fifth most popular site in the world lost 49,000 volunteers in the the first three months of 2009 alone. This included 23,000 of its 100,000 English-language editors. Full Article at New Statesman
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Fears for the online encyclopaedia's future have increased as it emerged Wikipedia's army of editors are going "dead" no longer actively contributing to the millions of pages which makes up the site. Full Article at The Sun
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The essential point is that the number of volunteers is dropping quickly. But twhether that's a problem depends on how you view Wikipedia itself. Full Article at Tim Worstall
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Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has become the pre-eminent first port of call for anyone looking up anything – hundred of thousands of volunteers have worked, for free, to make sure that there’s an entry on subjects as diverse as quantum... Full Article at The Telegraph
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Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia, pauses during an interview with Reuters at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem October 21, 2009.
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at the 'Facing Tomorrow' conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. The global conference opened in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at the 'Facing Tomorrow' conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. The global conference hosted by Peres opened in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
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New WikiReader device puts the 3.1 million English language articles of the Wikipedia in the palm of your hand on a $99 easy-to-use device.
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Shane Fitzgerald, at home in Dublin, Ireland, Monday, May, 11, 2009. Shane posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media would uphold standards of accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.
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This is some good news: http://n-europe.com/news.php?nid=13695 Super Mario Kart may be out THIS Friday here in Europe if Wikipedia can be trusted in this instance. Both Eurogamer and Gamespot (where EG got the news from) have reported this. (Super Smash Bros and Pilotwings have been available to Europea...
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If you Google the Jefferson Highway, I come up before Wikipedia does ... That's not easy.
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Google’s PageRank algorithm, Twitscoop’s zeitgeist measurement, and Wikipedia’s post hoc peer review
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Google is my adviser and Wikipedia my professor.
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While some of the entry's content may repeat the sponsor's own labeling or advertising, Wikipedia users can alter this content and post additional information ... As a result, the final Wikipedia page may - through no fault of the sponsor - fail to comply with FDA advertising and labeling rules were the...
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For website owners, all user-supplied content should be served from a completely separate domain ... This is already implemented by Yahoo mail, Hotmail, Wikipedia, and many other major websites, but a huge variety of self-contained web applications do not do so.
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Two very different worlds collide this week when web-savvy executives of Google, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia meet representatives of the Vatican to explain the mysteries of the internet.
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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Friday that the online encyclopedia aspires to be a higher-quality source of information but added that mainstream publications could learn from its disclaimers and community features.
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Wikimedia has always had access to our server traffic logs, which report an astonishing amount of daily traffic – currently about 95 to 100 thousand requests per second. comScore Media Metrix provides something we can’t – recognized, industry standard, global measurement that helps us understand project...
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Interesting... this site lumped Wikipedia in as a social media site. While I would argue that, while from a strictly techie pov it is one, Wikipedia is fundamentally and qualitatively different than MySpace or Facebook. Removing Wikipedia takes social media sites down to 9%.
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Whether or not managers, leaders, or politicians even know the difference between Wikipedia, Facebook, or Twitter, they need to begin learning how to monitor and respond quickly to trends in these social media communities
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Wikipedia formatted for your Android phone. With Quickpedia, you can do most of what you already do on Wikipedia: search, browse articles, featured pages, and current events. Plus, Quickpedia can find Wikipedia articles near your current GPS position!
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Wikipedia formatted for your Android phone. With Quickpedia, you can do most of what you already do on Wikipedia: search, browse articles, featured pages, and current events. Plus, Quickpedia can find Wikipedia articles near your current GPS position!
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Man alive, I’m been here three hours, and all I’ve been doing is looking up old Ric Flair promos on YouTube, and then doing the related Wikipedia shuffle. I went from looking up Starrcade to the concept of sovereignty in just a few clicks! And I have articles to write, (and Dream 12 to watch)!
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Books are just devices. Wikipedia is the new Britannica
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Alterations were made to the Wikipedia page on Edward McMillan-Scott, the Tory MEP who raised concerns about Kaminski, and was then expelled from the party
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It’s been a year since China’s government lifted its ban on the Chinese version of U.S.-based Wikipedia yet it remains unclear whether Wikipedia has gained any share of the country’s massive Internet readership.
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We are hopeful ... Wikipedia has been open for more than a year, and we are hoping that will continue. We would like for Wikipedia to have as much impact in China as it has in other places around the world.
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I don't think they can become a reference book like Wikipedia because they don't have a serious community focusing on improving the quality of content as well as trying to respect neutral point of view ... They have to follow the hidden rules and you never know what those are.
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We're not sitting home in front of our televisions anymore. In the age of Wikipedia, we're all putting content out there for others to use. How can theatre capitalize on this phenomenon?
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Paper background and logo courtesy of Google Images. Signature courtesy of the Robert Mugabe page on Wikipedia. Address courtesy of Google Maps. Content courtesy of being ripped off by McDonald's several times.
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I think now I can write iambic pentameter, so if I ever have to write The Demon again, I'm on it ... There's a really good entry on it on Wikipedia.
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Guess what? ... A lot of ancient-history specialists? They're not online, let alone involved in Wikipedia. But a lot of students are going to Wikipedia for information on ancient history.
SOURCE: Pakistan News.net
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