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Fbi Wikipedia
[Tappz] In July the FBI took it upon itself to go after the band of scofflaws at Wikipedia who were daring to use an image of the FBI’s official seal to illustrate an article about the FBI. So the FBI wrote a stern letter demanding that the …
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August 06, 2010
Fbi Wikipedia
[Tappz] In July the FBI took it upon itself to go after the band of scofflaws at Wikipedia who were daring to use an image of the FBI’s official seal to illustrate an article about the FBI. So the FBI wrote a stern letter demanding that the …
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Posted at 01:35 PM
August 06, 2010
FBI wants its seal removed from Wikipedia | Digital Media - CNET News
[CNET News.com] "The FBI has not authorized use of the FBI seal on Wikipedia," the letter said. "The inclusion of a high quality graphic of the FBI seal on Wikipedia is particularly problematic, because it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting" copying and reprinting of the FBI's seal.
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FBI wants its seal removed from Wikipedia | Digital Media - CNET News
[CNET News.com] "The FBI has not authorized use of the FBI seal on Wikipedia," the letter said. "The inclusion of a high quality graphic of the FBI seal on Wikipedia is particularly problematic, because it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting" copying and reprinting of the FBI's seal.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
July 23, 2010
Wikimedia dumps porn following FoxNews probe - Digital Life ...
[Silicon Republic - News] Wikimedia, the parent company of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is executing the immediate deletion from all of its websites of what Jimmy Wales is calling 'pornographic imagery' following a story by FoxNews.com where the US news site alerted several donaters to the Wikimedia Foundation of this content.
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Posted at 01:36 PM
July 16, 2010
Wikipedia in Culture: Wikimedia Foundation, English Wikipedia ...
[Wikipedia Books] If you’ve read Wikipedia, you are familiar with how some words within the article provide links to other articles (for those curious and wishing to expand their research/reading) and while this can be helpful, not all of the links within any particular Wikipedia article are too relevant to the original subject matter. There is also often a list of other articles at the bottom of any Wikipedia article that are ‘See also…’
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Posted at 01:33 PM
July 05, 2010
Wikipedia is down « Evolving Thoughts
[Evolving Thoughts] I thought, for a moment, the End Times must be nigh with Wikipedia being down as well as the Panda’s Thumb Forum. But I find that, Epicurus be praised, I can still get into Wikipedia, although PT Forum is still out.
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Posted at 01:05 PM
Wikipedia is down « Evolving Thoughts
[Evolving Thoughts] I thought, for a moment, the End Times must be nigh with Wikipedia being down as well as the Panda’s Thumb Forum. But I find that, Epicurus be praised, I can still get into Wikipedia, although PT Forum is still out.
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Posted at 01:05 PM
Wikipedia was down, and now we know why [Updated]
[The Next Web] [...] Is Down [ALERT]Mashable (blog)Wikipedia Down for an Hour!TPI News (blog)Erictric -The Next Web -DigitalJournal.comall 8 news articles » yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Wikipedia [...]
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Posted at 01:03 PM
Wikipedia was down, and now we know why [Updated]
[The Next Web] [...] Is Down [ALERT]Mashable (blog)Wikipedia Down for an Hour!TPI News (blog)Erictric -The Next Web -DigitalJournal.comall 8 news articles » yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Wikipedia [...]
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Posted at 01:03 PM
July 02, 2010
State of the language selection in MediaWiki and Wikipedia ...
[Guillaume Paumier's weblog] That means, for example, that you can read Wikipedia articles in Italian, but with the interface in French. This feature is particularly useful for Wikipedia participants who are familiar with the interface in their mother tongue.
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Posted at 01:33 PM
May 19, 2010
Godwin at Wikimedia says porn claim is "nonsense" - Claims Murdoch ...
[Tech Eye - Latest technology headlines] "The Fox News campaign against Wikipedia has certainly led to some reactions, of course, but our Board and executive director remain in charge, and in fact we spent more time last week rolling out an interface redesign for Wikipedia than we did thinking about Fox News's attacks," said Godwin, stopping just short of rolling his eyes and saying ‘bovvered’.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
May 12, 2010
Internal battle at Wikimedia over 'pornographic images ...
[Tech Eye - Latest technology headlines] Some images deemed by the Wikipedia community to have educational merit have since been reinstated but the row has led Mr Wales to give up some of his rights including the ability to delete and edit "protected" content
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Posted at 01:43 PM
May 10, 2010
The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Sunday Telegraph: MPs ...
[The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage] An investigation has uncovered at least 10 cases in which MPs' biographical pages on Wikipedia were altered to remove information about their expenses which had been added by members of the public after it was revealed by the Telegraph.
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Posted at 01:04 PM
The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Sunday Telegraph: MPs ...
[The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage] An investigation has uncovered at least 10 cases in which MPs' biographical pages on Wikipedia were altered to remove information about their expenses which had been added by members of the public after it was revealed by the Telegraph.
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Peru, OLPC, and Wikipedia
[Chris Ball] Chris Ball is a free software developer who lives in Boston, MA, USA and works as Lead Software Engineer for One Laptop Per Child.
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Posted at 01:02 PM
Peru, OLPC, and Wikipedia
[Chris Ball] Chris Ball is a free software developer who lives in Boston, MA, USA and works as Lead Software Engineer for One Laptop Per Child.
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Posted at 01:02 PM
May 03, 2010
!wikipedia !wikimedia !wikimania #Wikimania10 wants you! Call for ...
[wikinet and friends] !wikipedia !wikimedia !wikimania #Wikimania10 wants you! Call for Participation is out: http://is.gd/bMjXT #cfp.
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Posted at 01:03 PM
April 23, 2010
Wikipedia on new Facebook community pages - Creative Commons
[Creative Commons » Commons News] Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US. Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors.
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Posted at 01:41 PM
Wikipedia on new Facebook community pages - Creative Commons
[Creative Commons » Commons News] Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US. Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors.
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Posted at 01:41 PM
Dial “M” for mangled - Wikipedia and Environment Canada caught ...
[Watts Up With That?] [In the image below added by Anthony, note the implausible temperature jump in the Environment Canada data for July 13th, 2009 at 22:00 where it was 5.9C at 21:00, jumping to 19.6C at 22:00, then back down to 4.1C at 23:00. Looking at the weather conditions of clear sky and moderate sustained winds from the North ~ 24 km/hr, there does not appear to be a meteorological explanation.
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Posted at 01:40 PM
Dial “M” for mangled - Wikipedia and Environment Canada caught ...
[Watts Up With That?] [In the image below added by Anthony, note the implausible temperature jump in the Environment Canada data for July 13th, 2009 at 22:00 where it was 5.9C at 21:00, jumping to 19.6C at 22:00, then back down to 4.1C at 23:00. Looking at the weather conditions of clear sky and moderate sustained winds from the North ~ 24 km/hr, there does not appear to be a meteorological explanation.
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