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Wikipedia braces itself for April Fools' Day

[nathanr|ca] Link: Jenny Kleeman: Wikipedia braces itself for April Fools' Day | Guardian Unlimited Business Jenny Kleeman Wednesday March 28, 2007 The Guardian...

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Indiatimes.com plagiarizes from Wikipedia

http://utcursch.wordpress.com [Utcursch] According to the WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007, Indiatimes.com has systematically plagiarized many of Wikipedia’s biographies on members of the Indian cricket team among other cricketers on its website, sometimes with errors propagated.

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Posted at 01:12 PM

March 30, 2007

Wikipedia braces itself for April Fools' Day

[nathanr|ca] Link: Jenny Kleeman: Wikipedia braces itself for April Fools' Day | Guardian Unlimited Business Jenny Kleeman Wednesday March 28, 2007 The Guardian...

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Posted at 01:15 PM

Indiatimes.com plagiarizes from Wikipedia

http://utcursch.wordpress.com [Utcursch] According to the WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007, Indiatimes.com has systematically plagiarized many of Wikipedia’s biographies on members of the Indian cricket team among other cricketers on its website, sometimes with errors propagated.

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Posted at 01:12 PM

March 28, 2007

Wikipedia is not a “free” “neutral encyclopedia”, it is only a site that is by the rich, for the rich.

http://wikipediaocd.wordpress.com [ Wikipedia generated Obsessive-compulsive disorder] The pictures that are uploaded will never reflect the poor people, those pics are taken by rich people who have leisure time and who can buy digital cameras. Even for those wikipedia generated OCD patients, they can spend hours on there, because they don’t need to work so many hours a day, and they don’t have to worry about where to get the money for the rent, food, etc.

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Posted at 01:11 PM

The Karen Show

http://outmavarin.blogspot.com [Outpost Mâvarin] Me, I write my own scripts, but I also follow scenarios set by John Scalzi, whichever Robin has suggested the current photo challenge, and occasionally some other meme. And although you've probably never seen video of me, you've seen my picture.

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Posted at 01:09 PM

March 26, 2007

Mandragopedia - Mandrake (Mandragora)

http://fireheart-vadis.blogspot.com [The Fantasy World of FireHeart] Most interpreters hold Mandragora officinarum to be the plant intended in Gen., 30, 14 (love-philtre), and Cant., vii, 13 (smell of the mandrakes). Numbers of other plants have been suggested, as bramble-berries, Zizyphus Lotus, L., the sidr of the Arabs, the banana, the lily, the citron, and the fig.

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Posted at 01:11 PM

Cryptography

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com [Words and what not] One of the nice surprises was a gentleman editing on the Wikipedia article on Implicit Certificates. These are some special certificates for use in smaller devices.

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Posted at 01:08 PM

March 21, 2007

Wiki-me-do, dude

Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck.http://scaryduck.blogspot.com [Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck.] It professes to be a storage vessel of the entire span of human knowledge. Which means, by very definition, they let some truly weird shit into it.

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Posted at 01:13 PM

SEO question - why does Google give so much weight to Wikipedia in the SERPs?

[>> Fused Nation - UK SEO Blog] Q: Why does Google give so much weight to Wikipedia in the SERPs? A: Guess! MG...

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Posted at 01:11 PM

March 19, 2007

This American Life & The Great American Stories

http://higheredmarketingblog.wordpress.com [ The Higher Ed Marketing Blog] I won’t say Ira Glass is my hero because the image, the concept of hero has been commercialized, overused and, (as Amerian media is wont to do,) driven into the dusty bargain bin of overused words, phrases and slogans.

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Posted at 01:14 PM

The Wikipedia Intrigue

http://premkudva.livejournal.com [PremKudva's Journal] PS: In Jon Stock's Last Word column he mentions that he knows some thing about me since "there is an article on him, too". Actually there is no article on my in the Wikepedia, what he read was my Wiki user page.

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Posted at 01:09 PM

March 16, 2007

Wikipedia Hoax Falsely Reports Sinbad’s Death

http://idiggi.blogspot.com [Bigger Digger News] Along with factual errors and deliberate hoaxes, Wikipedia recently became the subject of scrutiny as it was found that Wiki-insiders obtained their position with false credentials. This led to further speculation about just how credible Wikipedia is as a source of information, and the web site quickly went into damage control mode to assert itself as a legitimate online encyclopedia.

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Posted at 01:12 PM

stuff

http://secretlondon.livejournal.com [Random Comments from South London] Spent most of the night uploading photos to wikimedia commons and then sorting them. I then did some work on open streetmap. My aim is to do city maps...

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Posted at 01:10 PM

March 14, 2007

Thanks to All Who is Helping to Vibe Up Nexus!

[The Digital Movement] Hi folks, just want to drop a quick note to the folks who have been great in the last few weeks in helping us inject lots of vibes into Nexus. Will do a far more comprehensive one after Nexus, but here a quick plug to the folks who had been great thus far.

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Posted at 01:21 PM

Who stands to gain from Wikileaks?

[ the billblog] Governments around the world, most notably here in Britain but recently in the US, want internet service providers to keep records of which websites we all visit and who we are exchanging emails with.

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Posted at 01:17 PM

March 12, 2007

Wiki, what is it?

[Technically Speaking] Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search('http://rexduffdixon.com/?p=2028')" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/www.sphere.com');">Sphere It

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Posted at 01:15 PM

Assembling Documentaries

http://mrhide7.blogspot.com [Mr. Hide's Class] Wikipedia: public domain image resources: This is a collection of images you can use in your work without obtaining permission.

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Posted at 01:11 PM

March 09, 2007

Daily radar - 09/03/2007

http://www.willswideweb.com [willswideweb] In video games they do" href="http://feeds.reuters.com/%7Er/reuters/technologyNews/%7E3/100237994/newsarticle.aspx">Cheaters never win? In video games they do

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Wikipedia founder says to challenge Google, Yahoo

http://hitnews.net [Hitnews.net ..::Only Hit News::..] Wikia Inc., the commercial counterpart to the non-profit Wikipedia, is aiming to take as much as 5 percent of the lucrative Internet search market, Jimmy Wales said at a news conference in Tokyo.

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Posted at 01:11 PM

March 07, 2007

Wikipedia, credentials and authority

[weaverluke] Essjay's great sin - the reason Wales [Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder and effective leader] ultimately sent him into exile - wasn't that he lied to the press but that he hoodwinked his fellow Wikipedians, that he used his fake credentials to get them to grant him deference in editing articles. In making his proposal to adopt a formal credentialing process, Wales is simply underscoring what is now obvious: at Wikipedia, credentials matter, whether genuine or fake.

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Posted at 01:12 PM

Modern Experts and this threadbare society

http://foostie.blogspot.com [Foostie Muse] "Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.

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Posted at 01:10 PM

March 05, 2007

Essjay Departure, Questions Remain for The New Yorker

[Andrew Lih] In an e-mail message on Friday, The New Yorker’s deputy editor, Pamela Maffei McCarthy, said: “We were comfortable with the material we got from Essjay because of Wikipedia’s confirmation of his work and their endorsement of him. In retrospect, we should have let our readers know that we had been unable to corroborate Essjay’s identity beyond what he told us.”

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Posted at 01:12 PM

Wikipedia Crisis Of Trust

http://lunixdows.com/lunog [Lunog] Unfortunately, it took Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales a day and an outraged community to appreciate the profound implications of this problem. Once understood he took appropriate action and terminated Ryan Jordan's association with Wikipedia.

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Posted at 01:09 PM