Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
CNET - Fri Nov 6, 12:54 pm ETFounder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.
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Media Alert Bollywood Goes to Washington Global India Fund Gala to Inspire Philanthropic Giving
PRWeb - Sat Oct 31, 3:15 am ETThe Global India Fund is a 501c3 that supports innovative nonprofit organizations committed to inspiring global philanthropy. This year's gala on Friday, November 6th will announce 30 new NGO partnerships that will help expand the opportunity for empowered giving. Featured speakers include Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Kate Roberts, founder of YouthAids and Five & Alive. (PRWeb Oct 31 ...
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"Maneating Lions of Tsavo" Really Just Damn Near Kittens
Chicagoist - Mon Nov 2, 4:34 pm ETPhoto via Wikipedia If you've been to the Field Museum in the last 80 years or so, you've surely gazed on the snarling, terror-inducing visage of the Man-eating Lions of Tsavo . Reportedly responsible for 135 human deaths in Kenya while a railroad was being constructed in 1898; British engineer, hunter and probable all-around lady-slayer John Patterson killed the cats and sold the pelts to the ...
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Wikipedia striving for balance on divisive issues
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Sun Oct 25, 2:58 pm ETFrom January’s war in Gaza to Holocaust denial, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia has become a battlefield over history.Yet Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales says the online, ever-evolving encyclopedia, which is authored by volunteer contributors around the world, ultimately is able to forge balanced entries even when it comes to even the most contentious issues.
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Wikipedia Edit System Should Be in Place by Year's End
PC World via Yahoo! News - Tue Oct 27, 1:10 pm ETThe English-language Wikipedia should have a system in place by December to vet anonymous edits for certain high-profile entries, according to the online encyclopedia's founder.
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UNCG Debuts Online Graduate Course in Liberal Studies, Lets the General Public Participate over the Web
PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 2, 2:01 am ETUNCG's latest online course in Graduate Liberal Studies explores up and coming powerhouses on the global stage. The course makes the most of online media -- including chat rooms, blogs, YouTube, Wikipedia and RSS news feeds from the BBC, New York Times and other media outlets. The University encourages the general public follow along and participate in the dialog on hot topics.
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Consumer Watch: Credit card regulations are coming - in a while
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Sun Nov 1, 1:01 am ETIf a teacher learns that a student has been rewriting Wikipedia entries instead of doing the assigned research, how long should the teacher give the student to quit her deception and start earning grades the old-fashioned way?
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Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour
DVD Talk - Sun Nov 1, 8:26 am ETRent It The Product: Just admit it - you have NO idea who Pat Paulsen is. Without the omniscient help of Google (or Wikipedia) or some insight from older members of your family, you've probably guessed he was a famous politician, an infamous televangelist, or some sort of scandal prone bureaucrat - and in all three cases, you'd be wrong, wrong, wrong! Well, we might give you the first one, since ...
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Fair and balanced?: On red-button issues like Gaza War and Holocaust, Wikipedia aims for neutrality
J Weekly - Thu Oct 29, 2:50 pm ETjerusalem | From January’s war in Gaza to Holocaust denial, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia has become a battlefield over history.
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Wikipedia Removes Bible Article
Christian News Wire - Thu Oct 29, 1:41 am ETMEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 29 / Christian Newswire / -- The iconic website Wikipedia has removed an article about a forthcoming Bible translation. The translation's publishers responded by publishing the removed article on their own website.
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Jack O'Lantern Trivia
The Ponca City News - Sat Oct 31, 11:31 am ETJack O'Lantern is a term originally referring to the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs. According to reference Web site, wikipedia.org, Ireland and Britain have a long tradition of carving lanterns from vegetables.
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Google Puts Some Search 'Skin' In The Wikipedia Game
ChannelWeb - Tue Oct 27, 3:46 pm ETThe search giant's deep-drilling contextual search engine now plugs into Wikipedia for oodles of configuration fun.
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'Fans' Take Trash Talk To Wikipedia
FOX 29 Philadelphia - Thu Oct 29, 1:07 pm ETTired of trash talking face-to-face, New Yorkers and Philadelphians are taking their back-and-forth to the popular, free online encyclopedia site.
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Don't Forget To Fall Back This Weekend
Chicagoist - Fri Oct 30, 3:19 pm ETVia Wikipedia ; Thanks, Shannon! Before you start downing candy corn and head out to all your Halloween destinations this weekend, remember that Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. this Sunday, the beloved "fall back" where we gain back an hour (of sleeping off hangovers). Throughout its history, it's faced opposition , as detailed below. Back in 2007, the time change was shifted to earlier in ...
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Wikia Turns a Small Profit on Advertising
PC World via Yahoo! News - Tue Oct 27, 12:40 pm ETWikia, the for-profit company built on user-contributed content, turned a small profit last quarter for the first time, said co-founder Jimmy Wales on Tuesday.
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Infographic of the Day: Ask Ken, a Visual Browser for Wikipedia
Fast Company Magazine - Wed Oct 28, 6:24 pm ETThe hyperlink has served us well in the last 15 years or so. But I'll bet you that 15 years from now, the hyperlink will be as passé as a dial-up modem: As information proliferates, we'll need better visual organization of that data. A number of dataviz experts have been arguing that point recently, and we're seeing steady progress towards that goal. For example, last year saw the introduction ...
Wikipedia: Today's Featured Entry
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November 10, 2009: Millennium '73
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