wikipedia

Wikipedia is an online multilingual encyclopedia project launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

It has over 10 million articles, about a quarter of which are in English and all of which have been written collaboratively by volunteers from all over the Internet. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone, and users collectively police the quality of the content based on a set of consensual rules. The process of editing by consensus can sometimes lead to bias, inconsistency or homogenization of content.

It is currently the largest and most popular general reference resource on the Internet.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “wikipedia”

• in Social Media
  Google+ Users Happier Than Facebook Users
  A consumer satisfaction survey places Google+ top, whilst Facebook languishes in last place.
  by cmimanagers / on Jul 17, 2012
• in Technology
  Wikipedia Finally Kills Off Printed Encyclopedia
  The rise of Wikipedia was final today with news that the Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer produce a print edition.
  by cmimanagers / on Mar 14, 2012
• in Android
  Wikipedia App for Android Released
  Wikipedia launches a new App for Android, and it's still free.
  by jbinc / on Jan 19, 2012

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• BACHELORETTE Desiree Spoilers, Bryden Leaves Show Early, Girlfriend Back Home?

  
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• The Witcher computer game

  
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  The Witcher The long-awaited update of The Witcher game is embodied in a video game series called The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Expanded Edition. Your eye pripadet prefer full Russian version of the game with all the updates to the current moment. Two storylines, mysterious universe, unexplored paths, secret ...
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• Carry On X-Men

  
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  Chris Weston’s poster for a notional “Carry On X-Men” has me wanting very badly to inhabit his alternate universe. He says of the film, “Despite the bawdy humour, ‘Carry on X-Men’ is in many ways more faithful to the source material than Bryan Singer’s films.         More: Carry On X-Men
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• Schmockpuppets Wage Wiki War

  
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  Yet another tale of Zionist sockpuppetry at Wikipedia :   Haaretz is reporting the exposure of an employee of the Israel advocacy group, NGO Monitor, for using sock puppets and "meat" puppets to tilt entries in favour of Zionism and the State of Israel.  Wittily, Haaretz calls it "Aligning text to the ...
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• How to dig more information on Wikipedia using Google

  
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  Wikipedia contains many information about million of topics but each single thematic page doesn’t contain all the possible info or links about that specific subject. In fact some other details about a topic, or related to it, can be in other parts of Wikipedia not linked to the main topic. In my experience, ...
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• Hide on Dunne

  
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  Rodney Hide is better placed than most to pass comment on Peter Dunne having served alongside him as a Minister outside Cabinet in the John Key-led Government between 2008 and 2011. He shares his thoughts in his Herald on Sunday column this morning: Whenever I think commonsense I picture Peter Dunne. For 30 ...
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• Red links in #Wikipedia categories are possible… use #Wikidata

  
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• Dragon’s Dogma free game

  
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  Dragon’s Dogma Dragon’s Dogma is an action-driven role-playing game with an optional element of online sharing. It is played in an original but familiar fantasy setting, where the focus is on magic and melee combat. Players choose a class and customize their characters’ appearance. The hero adventures with one ...
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• Blog: Obama and the Despots… “The America we knew is gone; it is over. This new breed of leftist is ascendant and angry, and changing the country and the culture in the process. The results are not pretty. Things are only going to get worse.”

  
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• Setup your own Wikipedia like website using MediaWiki

  
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• The reason that conservatives never have their facts right.

  
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  Just in case you thought this was a joke, let me assure you it is not . Some of you may remember that the website was started by Andrew Schlafly, son of Phyllis Schlafly, after he determined that Wikipedia was too liberal. In other words it offered actual facts with citations to back them up. So ever since2006 ...
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• A quick look at some of Siri’s new features in iOS 7 Beta 1

  
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• Must-Watch TED Talk On Monetizing Wikipedia

  
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• Many Worlds

  
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• Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, planning Hypno-Birth

  
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• Uomo più vecchio del mondo 2013: una donna

  
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