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Archive for March 17th, 2010

Bloggerheads (UK) - Tameside Council: the Wikipedia adventures

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

When I see stuff like this, the first thing i usually do is run the relevant IP(s) through Wikipedia’s back-end, because usually the type of person who’ll attack others from behind a sock-puppet in email and/or on blogs will do the same …

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Download Symbian Foundation's Wikipedia Reader v1.00rc3 S60v5

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

Coming out of the Symbian Foundation’s developer wiki system is a handy Wikipedia widget that installs on any Symbian-powered smartphone with Web runtime (so that’s most of them). Search results are all optimised for the small screen …

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Lake Land College Library Blog: Wikipedia Research (no, really…)

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

As you may have heard, Wikipedia bashing is a very popular sport among librarians and academics at large. There are many reasons for this, ranging from the authority of the people writing entries to the chageable nature of the …

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Sophiestication releases Articles Wikipedia reader (Macworld.com

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

Macworld.com – There are a bunch of Wikipedia apps out there for the iPhone and iPod touch right now, all trying to serve different customers. Want an offline version for your iPod Touch?

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Law Librarian Blog: Study shows half of college students use

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

How frequently college students use Wikipedia. What motivates students to use Wikipedia. At which stages of research students use Wikipedia. How Wikipedia is used in relation to other information resources. What predictors reveal which …

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Articles Wants To Optimize Your iPhone Wikipedia Experience

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

Articles improves upon the usual mobile Wikipedia viewing experience by doing more than just laying tons of features over the top of the mobile site. Instead, Articles takes each article’s data and reformats it to give you a more …

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Students Use Wikipedia Early and Often, Study Shows

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

More than half of college students frequently or always consult Wikipedia for course-related research, according to a report published in First Monday, an online, peer-reviewed journal. Only 22 percent of respondents to the survey said …

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Louis Vuitton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

Louis Vuitton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Louis Vuitton Malletier (/lwi bwit??/), commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton, or sometimes shortened to LV, is a French multinational giant that is the global leader in the retail of …

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Dore and some interesting wikipedia edits « Holford Watch: Patrick

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

Looking at the Wikipedia page for Dore, we were interested to note that IP address 82.70.115.233 was associated with a number of edits to this page. Some of these changes – such as a 31/12/09 edit – seem to make the Wikipedia page more …

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Interview with Patrick Lichty, Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kidall

Posted in Wikipedia on March 17, 2010

Patrick: I’ll let Nathaniel and Scott fuield this one, but my understanding it was that of a bit of an “exquisite Corpse” project on Wikipedia, but by the time I came on as a cohort, I felt that it had become something that could make …

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