DailyLit: Wikipedia Tours
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008DailyLit: Wikipedia Tours: Subscribe to serialised “tours” of different topics by email or RSS. I’ll add one here, just for fun…
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America's Favorite Architecture
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org. In 2007, the American Institute of Architects asked Harris Interactive to survey 2000 people, who were shown 247 photographs of buildings in different categories chosen by 2500 architects. …
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‘Wuthering Heights,’ Wikipedia in 5-minute chunks
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008The Wikipedia-based topics DailyLit is creating “tours” of major world religions (22 installments–compared with the 260 installments for Moby Dick), “Wine 101,” presidents of the United States, “Best Picture” Oscar winners, famous poets …
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Comment on Wikipedia equals Fail - Death to the Open Encyclopedia
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008I Sphunn it. However, personally these issues are not new, been around for ages. Ranting about Wikipedia almost feels like the old days of venting about Dmoz all the time and the issues.
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Special Report: Exposed - Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008HonestReporting exposes anti-Israel activists manipulating the online encyclopedia. Read more at HonestReporting’s latest Special Report: Exposed - Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia.
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Larousse rival to Wikipedia falls at first fence
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008THE French encyclopaedia publisher Larousse is looking to beat Wikipedia at its own game and launch an online version of its books. But the first problem Larousse has faced is that their site has fallen over due to the interest in the …
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Transparent Wikipedia visualization
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008John wasn’t familiar with Fernanda’s work visualizing the history of Wikipedia articles. So I explained History Flow, the 2003/2004 work building visualizations like this one to show the build up of different authors’ edits of a …
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This dude thinks Wikipedia is a waste of time
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008This is a humorous tweak done on some of the most popular websites’ logos. Check them out. Not sure what will Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales think if they saw this. Waste of time to use Wikipedia.org? Thankfully, this is only a joke. …
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New “Intelligent” Search Engine for Wikipedia by Powerset
Posted in Wikipedia on May 14, 2008The new search engine is designed to search Wikipedia articles providing more relevant results and sometimes even direct answers to your questions. Powerset’s search engine claims to be able to unlock the actual meaning of every word in …
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Villainous Breakdown
Posted in PMwiki on May 14, 2008[[AvatarTheLastAirbender http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crazula.jpg]] ->”’Stansfield”’: Bring me everyone. ->”’Benny”’: What do you mean “e…
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