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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 ...
Image Caption: Nemopilema nomurai in the Kaiyukan-aquarium of Osaka. Courtesy Wikipedia
Vatican officials and Catholic bishops are getting a lesson on the Internet from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google executives as the church struggles to get its message out in the digital age.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will join the advisory board of Wikimedia Foundation , the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia . The Wikimedia Foundation advisory board was created in January 2007. The main job of advisory board members is to attend a once a year meeting at the annual Wikimania conference. They also contribute in their specific areas of expertise. I guess that means ...
By RYAN AUTULLO BLADE SPORTS WRITER Wikipedia, perhaps the most revolutionary yet irresponsible Web site available for obtaining information, lists two historic sporting events from Nov. 22, 2003. One of them - the first NHL game played outdoors - has gone on to be a repeated experience. The other has not. Come Saturday, 2,191 days will have passed since the last time the University of Michigan ...
Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the online search site headed by Jason Calacanis, rolled out version 3.0 of the firm's web site. The new version of the site is looking to combine search, content, and Q&A. According to an email from Calacanis to his private email list, "Essentially what we're doing is making a bigger and better Wikipedia with a revenue-sharing model." Among other changes, the site's ...
Red Hat CEO: We're like Facebook — Aug. 26, 2009 — In an eWEEK interview, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says his company is "defining a whole new business model" by applying collaborative principles similar to those behind Facebook and Wikipedia.
The nonprofit group that runs online encyclopedia Wikipedia said Friday that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board. The Wikimedia Foundation said it chose Newmark as an adviser because of his work as an... Wikipedia - Wikimedia Foundation - Craig Newmark - Craigslist - Open Source
Twitters from the pope... do you go to hell if you unfollow the catholic church? VATICAN CITY - Vatican officials and Catholic bishops are getting a lesson on the Internet from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google executives as the church struggles to get its message out in the digital age.
Executives of the world’s top web properties have attended a Vatican symposium Thursday in order to educate Pope Benedict XVI and Catholic bishops about the secrets of the Internet, the Associated Press reported. A string of high-ranked executives from Wikipedia, Google, and Facebook have covered the topics like social media, hacking, and Internet copyright issues. [...]
Wolfgang Werlé, a man convicted of murder in Germany in 1990, has recently filed a cease and desist letter requesting the removal of his name from Wikipedia’s English language article regarding Walter Sedlmayr, his victim.
A convicted murderer demands that Wikipedia remove his name from an entry about the actor he killed in 1990. The ex-convict cites a German law to bolster his censorship argument.
A German man convicted of murdering an actor sues online encyclopedia under privacy law he claims prevents his name being mentioned in connection with the murder.
Who doesn't rely on Wikipedia – at least once in a while – these days? But for those of us who do, here's a startling statistic: Wikipedians (those who write and edit the info we find at the online encyclopedia) are “80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more ...
Image Caption: The world's highest ski resort at the Chacaltaya glacier in La Paz, Bolivia. Courtesy Ville Miettinen - Wikipedia
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Drug makers, Internet companies and nonprofits called for clarity on what is a gray area for U.S. health regulators: how drug promotion on Twitter, Wikipedia, blogs and other social media can be regulated.
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