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5 Terrifying Bastardizations of the Wikipedia Model »
Posted by: azies 6 months, 1 week ago in Humor
What kind of people feel the need to set up an entirely separate reference? Why, that would be the ones who live on the fringes ...
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Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 year, 3 months ago in News
A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country ...
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Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 year, 3 months ago in News
A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country ...
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Media Duped Into Using Fake Quote In Their Rush To Disseminate News Quickly Rather Than Accurately »
Posted by: epiphannyy 6 months, 1 week ago in News
When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media ...
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Wikipedia says Bush had more czars than Obama »
Posted by: ameliog 2 months ago in Political News
Republicans are concerned that President Obama's "czars" may be working in violation of the Constitution. Of course, as White House spokesman Robert Gibbs notes ...
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Church of Scientology Banned from Editing Wikipedia »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Wikipedia has decided enough is enough. After too many self-serving edits by the Church of Scientology, Wikipedia has decided to ban edits from IP addresses ...
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Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People »
Posted by: engineer 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Wikipedia , one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free ...
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Obama Racial Slur On Wikipedia, Google »
Posted by: TimALoftis 9 months ago in Science & Technology
Web surfers who used Google.com to search for information on President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon were presented with a racial slur. The slur ...
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After Vandalism, Wikipedia Locks Joe Wilson's Article »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The hits just keep on comin' for Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), also known as "You Lie Guy." He's the member of Congress who blurted ...
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Britannica to Take on Wikipedia with End-User Editing »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 10 months ago in Science & Technology
In early spring of 2008, while writing about changes Encylopedia Brittanica was making to its online edition, I suggested that they move to a model ...
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The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Topics covered by the website range from the life and times of High School Musical star Zac Efron to the fall of communism and the ...
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Wikipedia Tops Its 2008 Fundraising Goal »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Things were looking dire for Wikipedia's annual fundraising campaign, so bad that founder Jimmy Wales posted a personal appeal on Dec. 23. On Friday ...
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The 11 Stupidest Moments in Tech for 2008 »
Posted by: IsraGeek 10 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Tech is overflowing with creative and hypermotivated people who do a lot of pretty incredible things. But they can be counted on to do some ...
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Wikipedia blocks access from Church of Scientology in L.A. »
Posted by: Progressive 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Religion
The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has blocked all contributions from computers at the Church of Scientology's Los Angeles headquarters to stop users there from revising ...
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Jason Calacanis: "I want to build the next Yahoo! or Wikipedia" »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Jason Calacanis isn't exactly the most popular online entrepreneur around.
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In the past he's called SEO " ********" and " a wasted industry" while speaking in ...Read (258) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at techradar.com
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