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Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy
Monte Carlo :: Monaco | 14 days ago
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Jimmy Wales is eating dinner alongside Princess Caroline of Monaco ...Wales , the man who co-founded Wikipedia eight years ago, is in Monaco to be awarded the Monaco Media Prize at the principality’s annual invite-only media forum.
Tags: Wikipedia, Mr Wales, Jimmy Wales, version offing, Wikia Search, Monaco Media Prize, group offing, Monaco, Monte Carlo, Social information processing, Online encyclopedias, Technology Internet, Wikia, Human-computer interaction, Hypertext
Wikia, site for user-generated topic pages, sees “explosion of growth”
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility In just the last two months, the number of global visitors to Wikia (see VentureBeat’s profile of Wikia ) has climbed to 24 million a month, up from 18 million a month. The site is seeing eight percent growth per month in both visitors and page views,...
Tags: Wikia
Wikipedia founder joins HP in magazine project
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago
Credibility The founder of Wikipedia has announced a new partnership with Hewlett-Packard's MagCloud printing service. Jimmy Wales says the deal will allow users to publish their own magazines using content from his for-profit company, Wikia. MagCloud allows users...
Tags: Wikipedia, Wikia, allows users
Wikipedia shaping open search engine
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 11 months ago
Credibility Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Wednesday that Wikia, the search engine being developed by his company, would offer a more transparent experience to users. Wales, who was here to attend a free software conference, said that Wikia Search would not...
Tags: search, software, wikia, Wikipedia, regional languages, search engine
Wikipedia Founder Accepts Internet Downturn
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
Wikipedia Founder Goes Green
Palo Alto :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has unveiled a new community for greenies to share information about environmental topics. Today, Mr. Wales unveiled Wikia Green , an arm of Mr. Wales' for-profit venture Wikia. It's a lot like Wikipedia...
Tags: wikia, Wikia Green, Campaigns Wikia, Jimmy Wales, Mr. Wales
Mainstream media in edit war over Jimmy Wales's waistline [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Singapore :: Singapore | about 1 year ago
Credibility The world's most respected business newspaper and an elite fashion industry magazine disagree on this most basic of facts: Is Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales pudgy or not? James Gleick, writing in the Wall Street Journal , says that Wales is "a trim 42-year-old...
Wikipedia founder's next target: Google
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Now, he's using the same approach to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of the Internet search market. Wales said he's about two months away from upgrading Wikia Search to let users annotate, change and refine the results of Web queries. The search engine...
Tags: google, search, advertising, yahoo, internet, partnership, wikia, wikipedia, market, out
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