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PatrickByrne writes "This is The Register's world-class investigative piece concerning one aspect of the meltdown on Wall Street ('naked short selling') and how the criminals engaged a journalist to distort Wikipedia to confuse the discourse. The article explicitly and formally accuses a well-known US financial journalist, Gary Weiss, of lying about his efforts to distort a Wikipedia page under assumed names, and accuses the Powers That Be in Wikipedia (right up to and including Jimbo Wales) of complicity in protecting Weiss. This is not another story about a 15-year-old farm kid in Iowa pretending to be a professor. This is like the worst Chomskian view of Elites manipulating mass opinion. But it is all documented." We discussed the alleged Wikipedia manipulation when The Register first wrote about it last December.
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via Slashdot @ 0:30 6th Oct
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Stephan Schulz writes "A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service. Wikimedia Germany displays a page explaining the situation, and has announced that it will file an objection to get the injunction lifted. The German Wikipedia has more than 800,000 pages, and is hosted, like all Wikimedia projects, by the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, and hence beyond the effective reach of at least German politicians and
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via Slashdot @ 0:57 16th Nov
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David Gerard writes "SOS Children's Villages has released the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools — 5500 checked and reviewed articles matching the English National Curriculum, produced by SOS for use in their own schools in developing countries. The 2007 edition was a huge success, with distributions to schools in four countries, use by the Hole in the Wall education project, thousands of downloads and disks and around 6000 unique IPs a day visiting the online version — the most successful end-user distribution version of Wikipedia to date."
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via Slashdot @ 20:40 22nd Oct
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Hugh Pickens writes "Simson Garfinkel has an interesting essay on MIT Technology Review in which he examines the way that Wikipedia has redefined the commonly accepted use of the word 'truth.' While many academic experts have argued that Wikipedia's articles can't be trusted because they are written and edited by volunteers who have never been vetted, studies have found that the articles are remarkably accurate. 'But wikitruth isn't based on principles such as consistency or observability. It's not even based on common sense or firsthand experience,' says Garfinkel. What makes a fact or statement fit for inclusion is verifiability — that it appeared in some other publication, but there is a problem with appealing to the authority of other people's written words: many publications don't do any fact checking at all, and many of those that
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via Slashdot @ 18:11 21st Oct
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If you’re a fan of Wikipedia and own an iPhone or iPod touch check out Patrick Collison’s Encyclopedia (US$7.99, iTunes Link). After launching the app you can download a complete copy of Wikipedia to your iPhone for offline viewing. It’s great for people that fly a lot or otherwise would like to search the venerable online encyclopedia without a data connection.
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via ZDNet @ 23:15 12th Nov
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If you’re a fan of Wikipedia and own an iPhone or iPod touch check out Patrick Collison’s Encyclopedia (US$7.99, iTunes Link). After launching the app you can download a complete copy of Wikipedia to your iPhone for offline viewing. It’s great for people that fly a lot or otherwise would like to search the venerable online encyclopedia without a data connection.
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via ZDNet @ 13:27 12th Nov
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular online destinations on the web. The user created open source encyclopedia is visited by millions of web users every day.
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via TechWhack @ 9:16 10th Oct
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Since the free, online Wikipedia user-created encyclopedia began in 2001, the Linux-based IT infrastructure behind it has been expanded and lassoed together to keep up with the demands of the popular Web site.
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via Tech World Australia @ 20:50 9th Oct
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia, has finished the porting of its IT infrastructure – including most servers and desktops – to the Ubuntu variant of Linux, reports The Register.
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via IT Web @ 5:33 14th Oct
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, has finished the porting of its IT infrastructure - including most servers and desktops - to the Ubuntu variant of Linux.
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via The Register @ 17:37 13th Oct
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Accepting the challenge “you could look it up” used to lead to a walk to the library shelf and a browse through a weighty reference book. How last century. Contemporary knowledge-seekers are much more likely to consult Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.
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via Videography Online @ 22:05 25th Sep
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encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via I-Net-Bridge @ 4:35 31st Oct
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia, has finished the porting of its IT infrastructure – including most servers and desktops – to the Ubuntu variant of Linux, reports The Register.
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via IT Web @ 15:12 14th Oct
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia, has finished the porting of its IT infrastructure – including most servers and desktops – to the Ubuntu variant of Linux, reports The Register.
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via IT Web @ 20:15 15th Oct
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RockMFR writes "A DMCA takedown notice sent by Nielsen Media Research to the Wikimedia Foundation has resulted in the deletion of over 300 pages on the English Wikipedia. The pages were 'templates' and categories that listed television stations within various geographical markets in the United States. Discussion of the deletions has focused on whether this type of information can actually be copyrighted, though the content of the takedown notice have not been made public."
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via Slashdot @ 14:36 21st Sep
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google yesterday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via The Times South Africa @ 4:38 31st Oct
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via China Post @ 0:47 1st Nov
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Google has made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via myadsl.co.za @ 4:37 31st Oct
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Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via The Age @ 0:12 31st Oct
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GOOGLE on Thursday made its version of communally constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via Australian IT @ 0:12 31st Oct
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SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via Economictimes @ 0:12 31st Oct
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via TechWhack @ 18:09 31st Oct
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - - Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via Yahoo! Singapore @ 0:09 31st Oct
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 0:09 31st Oct
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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via Yahoo! News Australia @ 0:11 31st Oct
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