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Archive for August, 2009

eContent: Et Tu … Wikipedia?

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

Look up the Wikipedia article on the assassination of Julius Caesar. Now if you made a change to this article and were a Wikipedia Uber Editor (1000+ edits) per month, the likelihood that your additions or edits would be challenged…

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Wikipedia testing new method to curb false info | Home >> Other

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that has increasingly drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.

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Tech Whiz Underground » Wikipedia Will Require Review of Public

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with more than three million articles. The Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit group in San Francisco that oversees the user-generated encyclopedia, has approved a feature called …

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Wikipedia to get better

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

We all have sometime or the other landed on Wikipedia during our “Web Search“, and more often then not got our dose of information, knowledge and much more from this great site. So, for all you Wikipedia fans, there is good news. …

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Wikipedia: Press talking 'nonsense' over Flagged Revisions

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

Wikipedia operator Wikimedia has blasted press reports that suggest the arrival of Flagged Revisions in Wikipedia is in any way clamping down on the editing process of the site, confirming the new technology will be rolled out ‘within …

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Wikipedia Editor Bias, Posting Rules Change (Open Talk) » Right

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

Wikipedia editor problems have been the bugaboo of the online resource ever since the beginning. Charges of liberal bias and incompetence have dogged the community and rendered it a source of lessening credibility as time goes on. …

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Wikipedia | Other Secrets & Confessions

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

Wikipedia, from Secret Other Confessions in the world’s largest anonymous secrets confessional.

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Googlepedia – Search Google and Wikipedia

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

Googlepedia is a free software extension to the Web browser Mozilla Firefox that displays relevant articles from the free Web-based encyclopedia, Wikipedia, on.

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A Wikipedia Administrator Needs To Approve Your Change (Noscope)

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

The two-month trial will test a system of “flagged revisions” on the English-language Wikipedia site. This would mean any changes made by a new or unknown user would have to be approved by one of the site’s editors before the changes …

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Up Till One » Wikipedia Tightens Editing Process

Posted in Wikipedia on August 26, 2009

Due to the lack of credibility Wikipedia has gotten over the years, they are trying to crackdown on the juvenile pranks they have been accustomed to.

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