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Archive for July 29th, 2008

Google vs. Wikipedia

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

Winer: “Google is going to keep being the coral reef for search, Wikipedia for encyclopedia”; http://is.gd/17ek.

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Do you think Wikipedia is contributing to the downfall of

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

Do you think Wikipedia is contributing to the downfall of civilization? Let me preface by saying I LOOOOOVE me some WIKI, but isn't it turning us into a world of people who only THINK they know everything? I mean, let's.

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Medpedia–A Medical Wikipedia

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

Medpedia is (http://www.medpedia.com/index.php/Special:Medpedia/About) … is an extraordinary global effort to collect, organize and make understandable, the world’s best information about health, medicine and the body and make it

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Bust It Baby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. (more…)

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Defining ‘Agile Software Development’ on Wikipedia

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

This is an unnecessary page - Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. We don’t have, say, When to use a riding mower rather than push mower. The basic extreme programming page is more than sufficient, although it may need work or

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Google Throws Open Rival for Wikipedia — Anon Authors Discouraged

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

One big reason many searches don’t succeed, he believes, is that despite the 20 billion or so Web pages in Google’s indexes — including the 2 million items in Wikipedia — the information simply isn’t there.

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Shanghai, city of the future

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

Unfortunately, the Chinese-language Wikipedia has languished after the PRC government blocked it from being viewed. Wikipedia represents an alternate form of social organization, which is a threat to the party’s supreme position at the

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New tools to find medical information

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

A group of American medical schools is working on a project to essentially collect and organize all medical knowledge in a Wikipedia-like form. Access to MedPedia will be available to all, but editing rights will be limited to MD’s and

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Wikipedia: The Book

Posted in Wikipedia on July 29, 2008

By Jessie Roberts. The single-volume Wikipedia Lexikon will hit German bookshelves in September. There are 50000 entries and 90000 contributors.

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Picture Cookbook: No-Cook Recipes for the Special Chef

Posted in PMwiki on July 29, 2008

PmWiki | Cookbook / Cookbook Welcome to the PmWiki Cookbook! The “recipes” in the Cookbook describe add-on scripts and various “tips and tricks” that let you customize PmWiki in lots of different ways. Source: www.pmwiki.org.

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