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Margot and The Queen The story may or may not be true, but Anne-Marie Duff's Margot was utterly believable, says Tim Dowling At the beginning of Margot (BBC4), a cautionary caption read: "The following drama is based on real events, although some scenes...
Tags: Dame Margot, Margot Fonteyn, Wikipedia, Newark, Rudolf Nureyev, Royal Ballet dancers, Margot
Since the beginning of this decade, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has been the most popular source of information in the world. It contains more than 14 million entries in various languages. All of them were written by surfers and edited by...
Tags: Hebrew Wikipedia, Wikipedia Foundation, Israel, Tel Aviv, Web 2.0, Hypertext, Criticism of Wikipedia, Social information processing, New encyclopedism, Online encyclopedias, Wikipedia
High-tech happiness for $100 or less Published: 11/29/2009 2:24 AM Last Modified: 11/29/2009 2:24 AM No on e's going to blame you for keeping holiday gifts minimal this year. But if you want to round out your handmade cards, scarves, pickles and jam...
Tags: Wikipedia, Tulsa, Wii Remote, Game controllers, video games, Technology Internet, Touch! Generations, Mouse, Wii
Wikipedia has disputed claims that a huge number of its editors, who help maintain the online encyclopaedia, have walked out. It had been reported on November 26 that ten times more editors had left Wikipedia in early 2009 than during the same period...
Tags: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Dr Ortega, India, Mumbai, Nonprofit technology, Erik Mᅢᄊller, St. Petersburg Florida, Wikis
So Wikipedia is dying, scuppered by its power-hungry editors who guard their turf too zealously and delete new entries. It was (is still) such a noble project, it should be a tragedy that people have stopped contributing to it. It should be a tragedy,...
Tags: Wikipediad, Sergey Brin, Belgium, Brussels, Mobile Payment, Hypertext, New encyclopedism, Google, Human-computer interaction, Wikipedia, World Wide Web
The Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid found the encyclopaedia's English-language version to have lost almost 50,000 editors in 3 months Editors are leaving the Web’s most popular free encyclopaedia in their droves, a study by Madrid’s Universidad Rey...
Tags: Rey Juan Carlos University, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, United Kingdom, London, Wikipedia, New encyclopedism, Technology Internet, Online encyclopedias, Web 2.0, Hypertext, Social information processing, Juan Carlos I of Spain, King John Charles University, Larry Sanger, Nupedia, Collaborative projects, Human-computer interaction, Wikis
Wikipedia is losing tens of thousands of volunteer editors a month, according to a study that suggests the pioneering spirit of the collaborative encyclopaedia is in decline. The research found that in the first three months of this year the English-language...
Tags: Ireland, Dublin, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Ortega, Nonprofit technology, Social information processing, Scientific revolution, St. Petersburg Florida, Robert Peel, Technology Internet, Online encyclopedias, Wikis
In recent years, using technology to change the way people work has often meant painful disruption, as CIOs rolled enterprise software programs through the ranks of reluctant staffers. Today, employees are more likely to bring in new technologies on their...
Tags: Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Story points, Web 2.0, Ferenc Gyurcsᅢᄀny's speech in Balatonᅤムszᅢᄊd in May, Social information processing, The Organ, Enterprise social software, Technology Internet, Online social networking
A sharp drop in Wikipedians, the volunteers who write and edit the online encyclopedia, is a disturbing and inevitable trend, the Toronto man who was once its top contributor said Monday. "Losing volunteers is a sign that things could be better at Wikipedia,"...
Tags: Wikipedia, Felipe Ortega, Spain, Madrid, Pulsifer, Ortega, Technology Internet, Encyclopedists, Simon Pulsifer, New encyclopedism
Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts , or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie Downer "deletionist" nerd army. The WSJ reports that the...
Tags: New York, Debbie Downer, Nerd, Shit, Wikipedia, Online encyclopedias, Web 2.0, Wikis