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- Wikipedia founder aims to break Google stranglehold
- SINGAPORE AFP — Watch out Google -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination as the world's most widely used Internet search engine. Google and fellow titans Yahoo and Microsoft dominate the Internet search engine market which Wales said was...
- Research articles 2008-08-14
- Wikipedia opens online library on human genes
- WASHINGTON AFP — A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia. "There are about 25,000 genes in the humane genome. We have 9,000 articles," said Andrew Su, one of those...
- Research articles 2008-07-07
- 'Ordinary' Arabs to retake Internet: Wikipedia founder
- SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt AFP — An explosion in Internet usage in the Middle East by "ordinary" people will show the world that the region is just like anywhere else, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Sunday. "Too often when people around the world reflect on the situation in the...
- Research articles 2008-05-18
- France's Larousse sets up Wikipedia rival
- PARIS AFP — France's Larousse publishing house on Tuesday launched an online French-language encyclopedia offering free access to its dictionary and inviting users to contribute content, aiming to rival Wikipedia. Larousse.fr said however that it would keep the two reference pages separate and that users making contributions will be...
- Research articles 2008-05-13
- Internet's Wikipedia to go print in Germany: publisher
- BERLIN AFP — German publishing giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday it planned to publish the world's first reference book based on entries from Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. Until now, Wikipedia was best known for compiling writing on thousands of subjects and putting it on the Internet for free and...
- Research articles 2008-04-23
- 'Full Frontal Scrutiny' Web Site Exposes the Work of Front Groups
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Sheldon Rampton of Center for Media and Democracy, +1- 608-260-9713; or Beau Brendler and Jorgen Wouters, +1-914-378-2600, both of Consumer Reports WebWatch Consumer Reports WebWatch, Center for Media and Democracy Collaborate on Blog-Driven, Wiki-based Site Inviting Contributions from Interested Readers 'The American public deserves to...
- Research articles 2008-01-29
- Country background research.(the dollar sign)
- In an increasingly globalized world, it's not unusual for companies to explore expanding their operations outside the borders of their home countries. Information professionals should have a game plan prepared for the day their clients--or bosses--say, "We're thinking of setting up shop in South Africa (or...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Wikipedia learns hiring lesson Foundation discovers former executive
- The foundation that runs -- and accepts donations for -- the online encyclopedia Wikipedia neglected to do a basic background check before hiring a chief operating officer who had been convicted of theft, drunken driving and fleeing a car accident. Before she left in July, Carolyn Bothwell...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Wikipedia learns hiring lesson Foundation discovers former executive
- The foundation that runs -- and accepts donations for -- the online encyclopedia Wikipedia neglected to do a basic background check before hiring a chief operating officer who had been convicted of theft, drunken driving and fleeing a car accident. Before she left in July, Carolyn Bothwell...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Students should use Wikipedia: founder
- LONDON AFP — Students should be allowed to use the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as it has become more accurate and trustworthy, its founder Jimmy Wales said in comments published by BBC Online Friday. "You can ban kids from listening to rock 'n' roll music, but they're going to do...
- Research articles 2007-12-07
- Wikipedia wins landmark privacy lawsuit in France
- PARIS AFP — A French court has ruled that Wikipedia could not be held responsible for content posted by its users in a landmark ruling for the Internet giant, officials said Friday. Three plaintiffs were each seeking 69,000 euros (100,000 dollars) in damages for invasion of their privacy after...
- Research articles 2007-11-02
- OOH-AH, UP DA RA (O'BRIAIN)
- DARA O'Briain has revealed how he was linked with the IRA after hackers hi-jacked his Wikipedia page. The funnyman added internet bandits have spread all sorts of ridiculous rumours about him. O'Briain, 35, the star of RTE's The Panel, said: "When people are interviewing...
- Research articles 2007-10-07
- S African official vandalises Wikipedia AIDS content
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — A South African government official was suspended on Friday after it was found he attempted to censor information on the popular Wikipedia website about his country's HIV/AIDS policies. Repeated vandalism attempts in which multiple entries on the government's HIV/AIDS policies were deleted, including one questioning the...
- Research articles 2007-08-24
- CIA and Vatican edit Wikipedia entries
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — A US hacker's homemade program to pinpoint origins of Wikipedia edits indicates that alterations to the popular online encyclopedia have come from the CIA and the Vatican. Virgil Griffith's "Wikiscanner" points to Central Intelligence Agency computers as the sources of nearly 300 edits to subjects...
- Research articles 2007-08-18
- Technology review: Wikis, lies, and video clips...
- The battle lines are drawn. On one side are librarians, second-semester writing teachers, and the history department at Middlebury College. On the other are legions of students and a handful of academics who see possibilities for integrating emerging technologies and their corresponding behaviors into the first "knowledge disciplines." What's at...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Caught in the middle of the format wars: with technologies changing quickly and standards being adopted slowly, how is a fiscally prudent librarian supposed to decide which media to buy?(online treasures)
- In last month's column on digitization and preservation, I noted that some people are concerned that the digital documents currently being created for preservation purposes may actually be inaccessible in the future if the hardware and software needed to view them are no longer available. This...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Prankster declares live comedian dead on Wikipedia
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Wikipedia called actor-comedian Sinbad on Friday to apologize after a prankster declared the performer dead in the communally crafted online encyclopedia. Sinbad, whose birth name is David Adkins, received a flood of concerned messages from friends and family members after someone edited Wikipedia information about...
- Research articles 2007-03-16
- Wikimedia Foundation denies financial difficulties
- CLERMONT-FERRAND, France AFP — The president of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the free Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, denied rumours circulating on the web that it is dangerously short of money. Florence Devouard, who lives in central France, is quoted by bloggers as saying that the Foundation only has resources...
- Research articles 2007-02-20
- Pocket Wikipedia Puts Knowledge in Your Pants
- Wikipedia may have some accuracy issues, but there's no debating it's home to a considerable collection of human knowledge. Now you can take it with you: Pocket Wikipedia offers some 14 million words and 24,000 images -- not the entire 'pedia, but hand-picked selections -- you can view on your...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Take Care with CAIR.
- By Ed Ziegler Commentary According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, at this time, there are approximately 10.6 million Muslims in the United States. With a group this large there must be both good and bad people within their midst. In September 2004 Abdul Al-Rahman...
- Research articles 2007-02-06
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