Tiny Reader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket
Wired News - Thu Dec 3, 6:46 pm ETWikiReader puts almost all of the English-language Wikipedia in a small, portable package that doesn't require (or have) any kind of internet connection.
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Researcher: Wikipedia losing editors
UPI - Wed Nov 25, 3:14 pm ETMADRID, 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.
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Faith column: Whom do you thank?
Greeley Tribune - Sat Nov 28, 7:36 am ETAnother Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. Did you give thanks? If so, to whom? Wikipedia defines Thanksgiving as "a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general." That free online dictionary also informs us that "while perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday." In light of these statements, consider the following ...
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Volvo IT Department Gets Banned From Wikipedia For Racist Rants
ReadWriteWeb - Wed Nov 25, 7:24 pm ETOne 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 ...
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Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers
Slashdot - Wed Nov 25, 12:11 pm ETHugh 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 ...
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Wikipedia is losing editors. Is free user generated content dying?
e-Consultancy - Mon Nov 23, 7:03 pm ETWikipedia 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.
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Linking In
Journal of Commerce Online - Fri Nov 27, 1:04 pm ETThey 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).
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Wikipedia Founder Creates Web Site For Homeless
CBS4 Miami - Sat Nov 21, 9:53 am ETThe 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.
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Wikipedia Comes To VUDU
IGN Gear - Tue Nov 24, 10:45 pm ETUsers can now access movie Wikipedia pages direct through VUDU.
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Wikipedia founder creates help site for homeless
WTSP-TV Tampa - Sat Nov 21, 8:44 am ETTAMPA, 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.
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Wikipedia gains 49,000 editors
TG Daily - Thu Nov 26, 5:36 am ETFuture is bright, says online repository of all human knowledge
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Google Leaders Can Be Prisoners of Privacy Wars: Ann Woolner
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 9:33 pm ETNov. 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.
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Who has the president’s ear in the health debate? MedCity Morning Read, Nov. 27, 2009
MedCity News - Fri Nov 27, 9:15 am ETImage 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 ...
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Wikipedia founder creates on-line source of help for Tampa Bay's homeless
St. Petersburg Times - Fri Nov 20, 9:09 pm ETTAMPA 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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Wikipedia loses nearly 50,000 volunteer editors: study
New York Daily News - Wed Nov 25, 11:42 am ETThe English-language version of the site suffered a net loss of 49,000 volunteer editors in the first three months of this year, compared with 4,900 for the same period a year earlier, according to a university study.
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Is Wikipedia dying?
The Week - Wed Nov 25, 5:56 pm ETThe world's fifth-most-popular website relies almost entirely on volunteer labor — and the volunteers are quitting
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December 4, 2009: Blade Runner
Wed Dec 31, 7:00 pm EST'' Blade Runner '' is a 1982 American science fiction ...
