News tagged with 'wikipedia'. Found 25 tagged news.

Lawmaker apologizes for blocking Wikipedia

Berlin :: Germany | 11 days ago

Posted by pranay

BERLIN (Reuters) – A member of parliament who got a court order blocking online encyclopedia Wikipedia inGermany for two days because of entries linking him to communist-era security police apologized on Tuesday for overreacting....

Tags: Wikipedia, banned, Lawmaker, Germany, parliament, East Germany

Wikipedia founder sees 'serious Internet recession' but no 'bloodbath'

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago

Jimmy Wales believes that the Internet and technology companies will suffer a "serious downturn" that will hit websites that are heavily reliant on advertising. "It won't be a 10pc collapse which kills everybody, but [advertising revenue] is going to...

Tags: internet collaboration still in infancy, internet, wikipedia founder (afp, wikipedia founder, Wikipedia

Wikipedia Founder Accepts Internet Downturn

San Jose :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago

Posted by wikiboy

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is widely considered one of the founding fathers of the Web 2.0. His non-profit online encyclopedia which can be edited by anyone around the world is a popular if not fully reliable resource for web surfers. But...

Tags: wikipedia, wikia, yahoo, internet, Jimmy Wales

Your new favourite site: Search Engine Rap Battle

London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago

Picking favourite lines from these three clips is like choosing between children... but Yahoo does come off pretty well. [To MSN] "The only Hotmail you've got is when Ballmer gets sweaty.... $40bn couldn't buy you a date with me." Don't forget to vote,...

Tags: search, google, yahoo, wikipedia, search engine

Amazon.com launches database for bands [SoundUnwound]

Lyman :: WY :: USA | 3 months ago

But the universal vendor seems to value the data therein — knowing which obscure movies a now-famous actor starred in helps cross-sell DVDs. Most of SoundUnwound's information comes from YouTube, Wikipedia, and MusicBrainz — another open-content music...

Tags: Amazon, Wikipedia

Palin's Wikipedia entry received an overnight makeover

Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 3 months ago

In the 24 hours before the McCain campaign put the finishing touches on its surprise announcement Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska would be the Republican vice-presidential candidate, one Wikipedia user was putting the finishing touches on the governor's...

Tags: wikipedia, palin, governor, sarah, mccain, john, presidential, pro, vice, politics

Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page scrubbed before Announcement

Palo Alto :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago

Posted by Olivier

NPR is reporting that someone edited Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page on Friday right before the word got out that she was John McCain's pick for a running mate. Obviously, the edits were made to make her look good. The changes were made by one person. ...

Tags: Sarah Palin, Wikipedia

Sarah Palin's Wikipedia Whitewash [Coverup]

Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 3 months ago

Sarah Palin's Wikipedia Whitewash We now know that Sarah Palin probably isn't baby Trig's grandma (damn!) but someone on her team seemed to think her past needed a little bit of a touch up. On Friday, just 15 minutes before rumors started circulating...

Tags: sarah palin, wikipedia, palin, mccain, sarah, john, politics, video, Sarah Palin's Wikipedia, comedy

The Politico: Enthusiasm gap plagues GOP convention

Tbilisi :: Georgia | 3 months ago

A Wikipedia editor emailed Political Wire to point out some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. Given the closeness of the words and sentence structure, most would...

Tags: georgia, russia, Russia-Georgia Speech, Georgian, news, South Ossetia From, Russian, Kosovo, Wikipedia, Soviet Union

Google launches rival to Wikipedia

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago

Google has launched its own version of communally constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which consistently ranks among the most visited websites in the world. The Internet search powerhouse went live late Wednesday with a free service dubbed "Knol,"...

Tags: google, wikipedia, internet