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[Epicenter] Wikipedia’s WYSIWYG Dilemma | Epicenter from Wired.com: “We talk about Wikipedia on a mobile platform a lot,” he said, noting that its future might rely heavily on the technology. “It might even be safe to say that the majority of people who will use Wikipedia will do so on a mobile device.”

[Avian’s Blog] Computers want to learn too: For example text that is entered for the parameter birthdate in the Infobox People template suddenly becomes a piece of information with a certain meaning: person described by the article was born on the date, described by that piece of text. Even the presence of Infobox People on a page itself classifies that page as biographical page.

[Search Engine People Blog] My Why of SearchWiki | Search Engine People | Toronto: Knol is essentially a distraction, stealing a little bit of Wikipedia’s thunder and, and this is more important, giving people another place to go and do what they want to do: provide authoritative content. You know how authoritative?

[NewsForNatives.com] At Last”¦ A Junk Food Junkie’s Solution to Losing Weight ...: (1 1/2 minutes later) Well, I wonder no more. thanks to wikipedia, i now know more than anyone (except the readers and writers of wikipedia, a few obscure trivia experts and perhaps some people in the tv world) about the old Native .

[Read/WriteWeb News] 10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later - ReadWriteWeb: Hmm, OK, it is not really an application, and it is not created by some start up, but instead an Open Source tool to run your own semantic wiki -- and it is widely deployed. Just to name a few examples: semanticweb.org, discourseDB, or most prominent, Chickipedia (which has even more pageviews than most of the applications named here).

[Usability Post] Usability Post » Wikipedia ”” Time for a Redesign?: Jin: I think Google has a pretty good UI :) But I agree about Wikipedia and Craigslist reaching critical mass ”” the usability or design won’t affect their success anymore. But I still think they could implement a new UI without too much fuss. There isn’t a lot of room to go wrong here.

[Annals of Pharmacotherapy PAP Articles] Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in Wikipedia ...: Alarmingly, its content is being cited as an authoritativesource more frequently by students in the healthcareprofessions.9,10Wikipedia links have also recently been included in the abstract of an articlein the International Journal of Cardiology and thus similarly appearinMEDLINE.11Concerns raised byTaylor-Mendes9about using Wikipedia as a reference reflect the fact that: (1) many articlesare written anonymously, (2) many contributors are students still studying thevery topics about which they write, (3) some Wikipedia authors self-identifyas "pre-hospital care workers," and (4) anyone can purposefullyadd misinformation (eg, political humorist Stephen Colbert prompted viewers tochange a Wikipedia entry on elephants to incorrectly read that theirpopulation in Africa had tripled over the last 6months).12Perhaps even more telling is that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has statedthat students and researchers should not cite Wikipedia as a source because ofthe high errorrate.13 Theissue of entry modification with more serious consequences has come underscrutiny as well, as evidenced by the implication that several pharmaceuticalcompanies have edited their own drug entries in Wikipedia to minimizeassociated safetyissues.14Despite all of these concerns, conceptual support for the Wikipedia modelexists in certaincorners.15,16

[Web Usability] User Experience Strategy - II: Answers.com does not even tries to answer this, so lets take it from Wikipedia:. “User experience is a term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system.” We should change ”˜system’ .

[Hobgit Web Hosting News] Hobgit Web Hosting News » Blog Archive » Website Monetization: Job ...: Employers can take out a job ad directly on your blog via the job board, whereby you get a cut of the listing fee. Employers find blogs attractive because blogs tend to attract readers focused on a specific industry niche, and this means that their job ads are better targeted.

[All The Modern Things] All The Modern Things: InstantCommons lives -- and why it matters: While wiki resources such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons may look stable from the outside, editors know that they are anything but. Especially with images, as there is no straightforward way to move/rename images.

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