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• Researchers Link Pollution to Oil Sands, Monitoring Body Disagrees

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 143
  Image credit: Wikimedia Commons It’s not a huge surprise that the oil sands—which have been described as the ” most destructive project on earth ” and were likened to Mordor by a United Nations water advisor—are leaking toxins into nearby streams. Still, the Regional Aquatic Monitoring Program (RAMP), the ...
  20 hours ago

• Researchers Link Pollution to Oil Sands, Monitoring Body Disagrees

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 143
  Image credit: Wikimedia Commons It’s not a huge surprise that the oil sands—which have been described as the ” most destructive project on earth ” and were likened to Mordor by a United Nations water advisor—are leaking toxins into nearby streams. Still, the Regional Aquatic Monitoring Program (RAMP), the ...
  20 hours ago

• COP15 in Pictures, Day Two: Activist Stunts + Protest Starts (Slideshow)

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 143
  photo: Matthew McDermott As COP15 moves into day two things are starting to heat up a little bit on the protest side of things. Perhaps heat up is too strong. Things are starting to come to a simmer. Yesterday saw a couple activist stunts, by the likes of Avaaz . Today saw a string of them, plus a bed-in in honor of ...
  21 hours ago

• OpenCV: adding two images

  
  Silveira Neto — Authority: 120
  This is a very simple example of how to open two images and display them added. I got two pictures at project Commons from Wikimedia that were highlighted on Featured Pictures . I did a crop on both to have the same size, as I’m trying to make this example as simple as possible. The first one is a photo of ...
  1 day ago

• Wikipedia ordered by judge to break confidentiality of contributor

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  A senior judge has ordered Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to disclose the identity of one of its contributors after a mother and her young child pleaded for help in identifying an alleged blackmailer.
  6 days ago

• Beyond Text: Report from the Multimedia Usability Meeting in Paris

  
  Wikimedia blog — Authority: 571
  What’s Wikimedia Commons? Expanding our collective knowledge requires not just text, but contemporary and historical photographs, paintings, maps, figures, video footage, spoken text, animations — in short, multimedia. With more than 5.5 million freely usable media files, Wikimedia Commons is a vast ...
  1 week ago

• 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
  1 week ago

• Wikipedia Director Talks Editors, Editing, and Future

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 698
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Will a Lack of Editors Affect Wikipedia Accuracy?

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 698
  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. ...
  1 week ago

• Wikipedia disputes claims of mass departure of editors

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Arguing Over a Meaningless Concept

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Wikipedia Responds To the Loss Of 49,000 Editors

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 579
  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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Wikipedia ‘loses’ 49000 volunteer editors

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  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 ...
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• Wikipedia’s Volunteer Story

  
  Wikimedia blog — Authority: 571
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Is Wikipedia Dying or Just Maturing?

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 572
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Benefits of Open Source Software

  
  IENACE — Authority: 141
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Im Donating Dinner to Wikipedia

  
  Rocket Watcher — Authority: 479
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Number of Wikipedia editors on the decline

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 622
  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 [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Faith and proof

  
  lovable liberal — Authority: 135
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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