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[P2P Foundation] And that, I would argue, is a result of what Wikipedia fundamentally is: it’s not a controlled, even controllable, well-organised mechanism for developing a reliable knowledge base that asymptotically approaches perfection through careful editorial quality control processes (as encyclopaedias of the traditional type may once have claimed to be), but something much more unruly - a sometimes messy, self-organising, continuously unfinished collaborative process that relies not on hierarchical structures, but on the wisdom of crowds for its quality control processes.
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June 22, 2009
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Peer Governance and Wikipedia ...
[P2P Foundation] And that, I would argue, is a result of what Wikipedia fundamentally is: it’s not a controlled, even controllable, well-organised mechanism for developing a reliable knowledge base that asymptotically approaches perfection through careful editorial quality control processes (as encyclopaedias of the traditional type may once have claimed to be), but something much more unruly - a sometimes messy, self-organising, continuously unfinished collaborative process that relies not on hierarchical structures, but on the wisdom of crowds for its quality control processes.
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Posted at 01:03 PM
June 22, 2009
Wikipedia to open up to video
[gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] The Wikimedia Foundation plans to launch an editable, video encyclopedia to complement its text-based online encyclopedia. Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has grown at an astounding rate, with about 65 million visits per month and thousands of volunteer contributors writing, adding to and editing thousands of articles every day.
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Posted at 01:02 PM
Wikipedia to open up to video
[gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] The Wikimedia Foundation plans to launch an editable, video encyclopedia to complement its text-based online encyclopedia. Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has grown at an astounding rate, with about 65 million visits per month and thousands of volunteer contributors writing, adding to and editing thousands of articles every day.
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Posted at 01:02 PM
June 17, 2009
Can $890000 Make MediaWiki Useful?
[ReadWriteWeb] WYSIWYG editors are already available for MediaWiki through extensions, but the potential for corrupting the data that makes up Wikipedia's encyclopedic content is very real. Avoiding that scenario is primarily what lead the Initiative to discount a switch to WYSIWYG, at least within the scope of the project.
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Posted at 01:32 PM
June 05, 2009
The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 | MetaFilter
[MetaFilter] while the popularity contest has mixed results, its very exciting to see a proliferation of creative commons material available. Like Wikipedia, its importance will grow as the library of materials grows more expansive (unlike Wikipedia, the quality of material will not be governed by consensus, although the quantity may grow overwhelming).
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Posted at 01:34 PM
May 08, 2009
Wiki Alarm - email alerts when your Wikipedia page is edited - The ...
[The Red Ferret Journal] Wikipedia pages are monitored every hour and email updates will be sent as soon as we detect a change. The email contains full information on the changes as well as the IP address of the person making the changes –
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Posted at 01:34 PM
April 29, 2009
Ban Ki-moon's Wikipedia page jacked | UN Dispatch
[UN Dispatch] I was checking out Ban Ki-moon's Wikipedia entry this morning (like I do every morning) and BAM! It's been hijacked by some pretty desparate Tamils.
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Posted at 01:35 PM
Ban Ki-moon's Wikipedia page jacked | UN Dispatch
[UN Dispatch] I was checking out Ban Ki-moon's Wikipedia entry this morning (like I do every morning) and BAM! It's been hijacked by some pretty desparate Tamils.
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Posted at 01:35 PM
Acid2 Featured On Wikipedia | Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
[Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage] The mention of the Acid3 article reminded me that while FF 3.0 was finalized it was said that Acid3 would be supported by the next version of Firefox. This promise was apparently forgotten after the FF 3.0 release as even mozilla-trunk still doesn’t reach 100 more than a year later (mozilla-1.9.1 only reaches 93 here).
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Posted at 01:33 PM
March 02, 2009
5 ways to enhance your Wikipedia experience - Download Squad
[Download Squad] If you can't remember how to do all those pesky wiki formatting codes when you edit Wikipedia articles, WikEd will help you out a lot. There's a whole palette of options that you can use by clicking, so you don't worry about getting the format wrong when you're making changes to an article.
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Posted at 01:06 PM
5 ways to enhance your Wikipedia experience - Download Squad
[Download Squad] If you can't remember how to do all those pesky wiki formatting codes when you edit Wikipedia articles, WikEd will help you out a lot. There's a whole palette of options that you can use by clicking, so you don't worry about getting the format wrong when you're making changes to an article.
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Posted at 01:06 PM
HipMojo.com » Why Twitter Reminds Me of Wikipedia
[HipMojo.com] Wikipedia grew because it was a non-profit, open source encyclopedia. Similarly, Twitter grew (amongst other reasons) because it was a free and its API spawned a thousand of products and services (some/many more useful than itself). So I wonder, if history repeats itself, the Twitter guys might feel a bit like Jimbo Wales does these days: proud of his accomplishment but a bit regretful of not having captured the value that he created.
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Posted at 01:04 PM
HipMojo.com » Why Twitter Reminds Me of Wikipedia
[HipMojo.com] Wikipedia grew because it was a non-profit, open source encyclopedia. Similarly, Twitter grew (amongst other reasons) because it was a free and its API spawned a thousand of products and services (some/many more useful than itself). So I wonder, if history repeats itself, the Twitter guys might feel a bit like Jimbo Wales does these days: proud of his accomplishment but a bit regretful of not having captured the value that he created.
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Posted at 01:04 PM
February 04, 2009
respublica: Wikipedia has everything
[respublica] A source for almost all things and all people, updated practically every second, Wikipedia information may not always be exactly correct, but it is possible to find something you're looking for.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
respublica: Wikipedia has everything
[respublica] A source for almost all things and all people, updated practically every second, Wikipedia information may not always be exactly correct, but it is possible to find something you're looking for.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
Should College Students Cite Wikipedia in their Academic Papers?
[Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog] Stephen Colbert once made this remark on Wikipedia - 'any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true.'
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Posted at 01:33 PM
Should College Students Cite Wikipedia in their Academic Papers?
[Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog] Stephen Colbert once made this remark on Wikipedia - 'any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true.'
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Posted at 01:33 PM
January 23, 2009
How To Get In Wikipedia: Get An Article Written About How You Aren ...
[Untitled] First off, the article could easily have had more citations to satisfy Wikipedia's verifiability requirements (which are absolutely necessary as Wikipedia is a tertiary source). The fulfillment of notability guidelines (which are just that-- guidelines) basically follows easily once something is verifiable.
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Posted at 01:33 PM
How To Get In Wikipedia: Get An Article Written About How You Aren ...
[Untitled] First off, the article could easily have had more citations to satisfy Wikipedia's verifiability requirements (which are absolutely necessary as Wikipedia is a tertiary source). The fulfillment of notability guidelines (which are just that-- guidelines) basically follows easily once something is verifiable.
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Posted at 01:33 PM
Britannica Boss Trash Talks Google And Wikipedia | Techdirt
[Techdirt] I'm not sure I agree on either point (and, to be honest, there are times I do Google searches and am upset when the top result is not to a Wikipedia entry -- as I've come to almost expect it now), but even if we grant Cauz the premise that (a) Wikipedia has quality problems and (b) Google favors Wikipedia too much, it still seems slightly worrisome that Cauz is even trash talking about those issues. Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to ignore either company, but a good CEO focuses on his company's own strengths in interviews and avoids trashing the competition most of the time.
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Posted at 01:32 PM
Britannica Boss Trash Talks Google And Wikipedia | Techdirt
[Techdirt] I'm not sure I agree on either point (and, to be honest, there are times I do Google searches and am upset when the top result is not to a Wikipedia entry -- as I've come to almost expect it now), but even if we grant Cauz the premise that (a) Wikipedia has quality problems and (b) Google favors Wikipedia too much, it still seems slightly worrisome that Cauz is even trash talking about those issues. Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to ignore either company, but a good CEO focuses on his company's own strengths in interviews and avoids trashing the competition most of the time.
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