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• Wikipedia Director Talks Editors, Editing, and Future

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  We recently reported on the notion that Wikipedia losing editors could lead to a decline in accuracy. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , which runs Wikipedia, tells WebProNews growth in editing has slowed, but the number of editors is just flat, and not declining. read more
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• Wikipedia Director Talks Editors, Editing, and Future

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 700
  We recently reported on the notion that Wikipedia losing editors could lead to a decline in accuracy. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , which runs Wikipedia, tells WebProNews growth in editing has slowed, but the number of editors is just flat, and not declining. The Wikimedia ...
  17 hours ago

• Will a Lack of Editors Affect Wikipedia Accuracy?

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 700
  Wikipedia is a very useful site for anyone looking to find information on any given topic. Chances are that you have used it for research at one time or another. Even if you dont start by going directly to Wikipedia, results from the site are often at the top of search results in Google, and youll get there anyway. ...
  3 days ago

• Wikipedia disputes claims of mass departure of editors

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 28 (ANI): Wikipedia has disputed claims that a huge number of its editors, who help maintain the online encyclopaedia, have walked out.It had been reported on November 26 that ten times more editors had left Wikipedia in early 2009 than during the same period in 2008.But the team overseeing the reference ...
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• Arguing Over a Meaningless Concept

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  I continue to be surprised that Wikipedia has never been on the receiving end of a Chutzpah of the Week award. I gave one to Jimmy Wales this past April ; but that was not for anything specifically having to do with Wikipedia. Rather, it was for an outrageous act of cultural amnesia , which, ironically, could ...
  3 days ago

• Wikipedia Responds To the Loss Of 49,000 Editors

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  After the world was made privy the fact that Wikipedia, the biggest online encyclopedia on the internet has lost 49,000 editors, the organization has now come out with defensive statement that has been designed to ensure the users that, Wikipedia will not shutting down as many reports have speculated. Wikipedia has ...
  3 days ago

• Google, EBay Wanted as Prisoners of Privacy Wars

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  A commentary by Ann Woolner about some international conflicts involving privacy laws and the Internet: 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 ...
  3 days ago

• Wikipedia ‘loses’ 49000 volunteer editors

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 26 (ANI): In the first three months of 2009, Internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia ‘lost’ 49,000 of its volunteer editors, according to University research.Over the same period in 2008, just 4900 people, who voluntarily amended and updated the information on the website, had stopped contributing.Felipe ...
  5 days ago

• Wikipedia’s Volunteer Story

  
  Wikimedia blog — Authority: 564
  What’s happening to Wikipedia’s volunteer community? Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages”. The article is a comprehensive description of the challenges and opportunities facing the Wikipedia community. Among other things, it describes recent research ...
  5 days ago

• Is Wikipedia Dying or Just Maturing?

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 563
  There was a very interesting front-page article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Julia Angwin and Geoffrey Fowler wondering whether Wikipedia , the wildly popular online encyclopedia, was dying because of new posting guidelines which have apparently led to a drop off in the number of volunteers contributing ...
  6 days ago

• The Benefits of Open Source Software

  
  IENACE — Authority: 142
  As unbelievable as it appears, there are hundreds of companies and foundations out there that actively create and distribute software for no cost. The reason for them opening up their software is varied, but the advantages to the customers is huge. Back in the 1970’s, computer geeks and nerds would create software ...
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• Im Donating Dinner to Wikipedia

  
  Rocket Watcher — Authority: 480
  Last week I won a catered holiday dinner for 8 people as part of my spoils from the AIPMM Blogger Battle .  The catch was that I would have to pick it up from the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose and I live in Toronto.  As much as I like the idea of flying to San Jose and inviting a random group of people to eat roast ...
  1 week ago

• Number of Wikipedia editors on the decline

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 619
  It appears that the number of people interested in helping monitor “the sum of all human knowledge” is on a sharp decline. According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Spanish researcher Felipe Ortega has been studying the number of [...]
  1 week ago

• Faith and proof

  
  lovable liberal — Authority: 136
  The Shroud of Turin is a proven fake. Proven. Its not a coincidence that the face looks like a 14th century painting. Thats exactly what it is. Faithful believers simply cannot be dissuaded from a story they like . No amount of scientific evidence is adequate. Witness what a thin tissue of bullshit suffices ...
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• A localisation is growing up

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 131
  Every now and again we have at translatewiki.net a request that is a bit out of the ordinary. The request that OsamaK made today is one such; he asked for the support of gender to be enabled for the Arabic language. Gender support was originally implemented for the Slavic languages and now this mechanism is ...
  1 week ago

• First Wikimedians’ Conference in Japan

  
  Wikimedia blog — Authority: 564
  The first ever Wikimedians’ conference is taking place in Tokyo this weekend. A group of Wikimedians, who were inspired by Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt, gathered in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan in the late summer of 2008. Those who traveled to Alexandria shared their excitement and inspiration gathered from ...
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• Wikipedia’s ‘increasing focus on quality and referencing’

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 124
  by paulabowles Many lecturers and teachers will recognise the feeling of disheartenment when confronted by an undergraduate essay containing multiple references to Wikipedia. Despite regular exhortations for students to resist its charms, its appeal seems almost overwhelming. Although the site is loved by many, its ...
  1 week ago

• Wikipedia needs your support!

  
  JustBol — Authority: 139
  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and that’s it, its name and slogan says it all! Wikipedia is the largest, freeware, editable enclopedia on the world of internet and it is a project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Last time Wikipedia ask for the donations for their future projects and now again ...
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• Wikipedia needs your support!

  
  JustBol — Authority: 139
  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and that’s it, its name and slogan says it all! Wikipedia is the largest, freeware, editable enclopedia on the world of internet and it is a project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Last time Wikipedia ask for the donations for their future projects and now again ...
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• Early flight 02562u.jpg [POTD for November 20 from commons.wikimedia.org]

  
  LocalBias — Authority: 145
  
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