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Check Out This Realtime Map Of People Messing Up Wikipedia

2013-05-13T15:44:10Z

A new site based on Wikipedia has proven to be quite addicting. Wikipedia Recent Changes Map, released earlier this month by programmers Stephen LaPor...

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SLIDESHOW: Avoid These 15 Wikipedia Wormholes!

2013-05-06T16:50:14Z

It happens every day, but when finals roll around and cramming begins, falling victim to the siren song of a Wikipedia wormhole can eat up precious ti...

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David K. Levine: Googazon: The Web 3.0

2013-05-05T19:01:00Z

Will the next Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds or Jimmy Wales please step forward? Because I don't want information at my fingertips -- I want action at my fingertips, and I mean my fingertips.

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George Heymont: All Your Books Are Belong To Us

2013-05-04T14:37:58Z

There's an old saying that "knowledge is power." However, long before anyone had written up a job description for an "intellectual property" lawyer, people were battling over who should and should not have access to knowledge.

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Wikimedia Foundation: More Women Contributors Wanted

2013-05-03T17:33:57Z

By Nancy Zeldis, Women's eNews

(WOMENSENEWS)--With as few as 13 percent of its English-speaking editors/contributors being female, the online encyc...

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Kate Southwood: I Was a Woman Writer in THAT Issue of The New Yorker

2013-04-29T14:31:33Z

Did anyone really think that an issue of the New Yorker would magically include even 50 percent women writers? No. Did we want to be reminded of that perpetual imbalance? Perhaps not. Did we need to be reminded? Absolutely.

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Tim Mattingly: WikiNuggets, Vol.1

2013-04-16T18:52:02Z

I would know a whole lot less if Wikipedia didn't exist. A day rarely passes by without something piquing my interest and then suddenly I'm learning all about the mating rituals of porpoises.

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Eric Holder Accused Of Going Soft On Porn

2013-04-03T19:06:18Z

WASHINGTON -- Forget big banks. In the eyes of one conservative group, Attorney General Eric Holder has failed in his duty to take down big porn.

M...

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Janet Tavakoli: Warning! Wikipedia Will Make Your Financial IQ Drop (Update)

2013-02-20T12:39:59Z

If you want to know why relying on information supplied on the internet by anonymous strangers is a bad idea, look no further than Wikipedia's articles on finance.

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Rob Taub: The Bamblue Box

2013-02-12T15:15:07Z

The Cameron Crazies represent a unique combination of a comic book nerd's intellectuality with the determination of the most rabid Boston Red Sox fan, so attending a Duke basketball game is a marriage of theatre of the absurd with the loudest sporting event imaginable.

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Richard Schiffman: Scientists Prove That Internet Trolls Are Wicked

2013-01-25T15:38:37Z

One rule of thumb is that trolls pretend to be sincerely interested in a topic at hand -- that's how they rope you in -- but their real motive is to push your neural buttons and elicit some sort of reaction.

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Wikipedia Wants To Take On Travel Sites

2013-01-22T13:40:24Z

After 244 years, the Encyclopedia Britannica published its last print edition in May, marking the end of the venerable 32-volume set. The probable cul...

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WATCH: Jimmy Wales Talks Expanding To Developing World On Colbert

2013-01-08T15:03:47Z

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales visited the Colbert Report on Monday to talk bean-bag office culture, nonprofit models and the organization’s next ...

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Wikipedia Hoax Eluded Detection For 5 Years

2013-01-08T11:23:55Z

Ever heard of the Bicholim Conflict? The undeclared war between Portugal and the Indian Maratha Empire lasted from 1640 to 1641, but there was little ...

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The Year's Most Popular Wikipedia Articles

2012-12-28T13:50:37Z

December means an onslaught of year-end lists from tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and so on, all trying to put a finger on what made customers ...

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Wikipedia's Embarrassing Ties To A Dictatorship

2012-12-26T11:09:33Z

Some of Wikipedia's harshest critics have dug up an embarrassing bit of Wikipedia history in recent days. Most notable: The site's first-ever Wikipedi...

Donald Farmer: 2013: A Year for Big Changes

2012-12-21T03:59:19Z

At the beginning of a new year, I always enjoy looking ahead to the changes I expect to see in my business life. This year may see some dramatic shifts in the world of business computing, but ... The biggest change has happened already.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow: I Am a Heretic and I Talk to My Cat, Gustavo -- It's on the internet, So It Must Be True

2012-11-20T13:28:13Z

What I hope for is that, even in times when we disagree with one another so deeply on issues of the Christian faith, we can do so always knowing, believing and living the challenge that it is to be the Body of Christ. This is my prayer and I'm sticking to it.

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Rana Florida: Your Start-Up Life: Don't Manage, Lead

2012-11-20T08:14:39Z

Some might know Don Tapscott as a management guru, a much sought after speaker at global forums and the author of bestselling books. I know him as a talented musician, an all-around creative thinker, and great friend.

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Anonymous Wikipedia Entry May Have Hinted At Petraeus Affair..

2012-11-14T13:04:56Z

A fleeting anonymous entry on Paula Broadwell's Wikipedia page back in January might have clued the country in to what was going on between her and th...

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Can Wikipedia Predict A Movie's Financial Success?

2012-11-08T15:36:35Z

Movie execs, take note. Next time you find yourselves wringing your hands about how a big-budget movie will fare at the box office, just check Wikiped...

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Rafael Fernández de Castro: Wikipedia Seeks Historic Truth in Falkland Islands Controversy

2012-10-12T14:58:40Z

Wikipedia will not resolve an international dispute. Nevertheless, the site is increasingly becoming a forum that challenges subjective, traditional, and institutionalized information -- in the case of the Falklands Islands, history.

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Quora: How Does the Community Get Consensus to Make an Edit on a Wikipedia Page?

2012-10-09T22:45:20Z

This question originally appeared on Quora.

By Michael Hardy, Wikipedian since 2002

The overwhelming majority of edits never get discussed. There ...

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Wikipedia Pushes To Cover More Women

2012-09-25T11:09:53Z

Wikipedia... most of us use it. Whether you visit the massive, occasionally unreliable user-sourced online encyclopedia to check out a celebrity or to...

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This Celebrated Author Is Furious With Wikipedia

2012-09-07T16:35:07Z

NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Roth vs. Wikipedia? No contest.
The prize-winning author says he's furious with the online encyclopedia over i...

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