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A recent university study showed that Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, "lost" some 49,000 of its volunteer editors in the first three months of this year.BBC compared this figure to a loss of 4,900 over the same period last year.Felipe Ortega, from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, carried out the research and said that if the trend continues, it could spell problems for the site."If ...
NJ Web development company, Business Edge Services & Technologies Inc., recently completed a project lead by Larry Sanger, Editor-in-Chief of the Citizendium and co-founder of Wikipedia, to create WatchKnow.org – an organized collection of educational videos for kids.
But Wikimedia says site 'definitely not dying' Research has shown that almost 50,000 editors left online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the first quarter of this year: 10 times the number who deserted the site in the same period of 2008.
Research has shown that almost 50,000 editors left online encyclopaedia Wikipedia in the first quarter of this year: 10 times the number who deserted the site in the same period of 2008.
MADRID, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The number of people contributing to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia shrank by 49,000 in the first three months of the year, a Spanish researcher said.
One of the risks facing any enterprise is how to deal with people who use the corporate network to post rude, sexist or even racist material on public facing web sites. That issue is coming home to roost for Volvo , following the news that Wikipedia has banned editing from machines inside the Volvo IT Department for racist remarks left on the pages of two well-known Pakistani Cricket players ...
Hugh Pickens writes "CNET reports that the volunteers who create Wikipedia's pages, check facts and adapt the site are abandoning Wikipedia in unprecedented numbers, with tens of thousands of editors going 'dead' — no longer actively contributing and updating the site — a trend many experts believe could threaten Wikipedia's future. In the first three months of 2009, the English-language version ...
Wikipedia may be the fifth-most-popular website in the world, but most of those viewers come to look without adding or changing any of the content on the site. And if viewers stop contributing content, Wikipedia will cease to survive.
They go by many names: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Windows Live, Xing, Friendster, Hi5, Yelp, Qzone. To say nothing of sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia and more than 200 million blogs (That’s right, 200,000,000).
The founder of one of the most popular websites in existence has created a new web site that helps the Tampa Bay area's homeless. Jimmy Wales, who founded Wikipedia, launched tampabayhomeless.wikia.com on Friday.
Users can now access movie Wikipedia pages direct through VUDU.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- The founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless. Jimmy Wales was in town Friday to introduce the launch of tampabayhomeless.wikia.com.
Future is bright, says online repository of all human knowledge
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s top lawyer, David Drummond , appealed to a London audience last month to help fight censorship of the World Wide Web. He mentioned China, Turkey and Thailand as some of the worst offenders of free Internet speech.
Image via Wikipedia Highlights of the important and the interesting in the world of health care: Who's got the president's ear? The Associated Press has obtained a list of 575 White House visitor records relating to President Obama's plans to overhaul the health care system. Not surprisingly, lots of lobbyists, strategists, and health insurance chief executives' names are included in the list ...
TAMPA Between stops in his globe-trotting life as an Internet mogul, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came to Ybor City Friday to launch a new Web site that offers a wide range of resources for the homeless in the Tampa Bay area.
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