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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
The CIA has just made a sizeable investment into "Visible Technologies" a company that writes software that monitors social sites, blogs and websites that get loads of traffic, like Youtube, Amazon, Flick'r, Twitter, etc... But then again "turn-a-bout"...
Tags: Spies, CIA, Visible Technologies, YouTube, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, Wikiscanner, Wikipedia, Vatican
Think of Wikipedia, and your mental image probably has you sitting at a PC tapping your queries in. But that's about to change because Wikipedia's Wikireader takes the encyclopedia mobile, in a sweetly Hitchhiker's Guide kind of way. Meet the WikiReader,...
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McGuinness the deputy first minister of British rule in Ireland and the British police, chief constable Baggot( see Urban Dictionary) both refer to republicans in Ireland as Dissidents. Dissidents as defined by the Oxford English dictionary of the Queen's...
Tags: British, dissident, Fenian, Henry Joy McCracken, Ireland, Irish, Protestant, PSNI, Unrepentant, Wikipedia, YouTube
Every day millions of people turn to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for answers to questions. Wikipedia depends on laymen to contribute information to the site. As a result; information contributed to the site may not always be accurate. ...
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia (with Larry Sanger), readily admits that his site has, and probably always will have, errors, inaccuracies or worse, although the same can be said of any encyclopedia (09/01/15 CBC Interview). But, he adds, the advantage...
Tags: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, consensus, credentials
The Wikimedia Foundation , the parents behind the Wiki Empire, calls the new philosophy "flagged revisions." Changes to certain articles on the site are invisible until approved by an "experienced volunteer," which, according to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy...
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Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia launched by American entrepreneur Jimmy Wales in 2001 with the idealistic intention of being an online repository of all human knowledge, announced this week that it would have to abandon one of its founding principles.
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see larger image uploaded by smkovalinsky [q url=""]The popular and ubiquitous online encyclopedia Wikipediaplans to change the way people contribute to some of its entries. The site, run by theWikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, will limit...
After eight years of allowing anyone to edit entries on Wikipedia, the non-profit foundation that runs the online encyclopedia is planning to add a feature that requires editors to sign off on some entries. The Wikimedia Foundation is planning on testing...
Tags: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, online encyclopedia, curbing false, false information