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Newsweek – Nov 24, 2007
The Free Software Foundation which maintains Wikipedia’s GNU license is teaming up with a popular rival licensing movement called Creative Commons to create an interoperable open source standard. “This has been my secret obsession and work for the last four years” says.
Advogato: Blog for mirwin
Advogato – Nov 24, 2007
Exactly the Bomis strategy withWikipedia. Brilliant! Again! So a measure of success is inevitably how long Citizendiumtakes to achieve its first viable community fork. WikipediaI have been browsing around Wikipedia doing some researchand considering ways to possibly attract attention tosome Wikiversity projects in which I have interest. I findthe current predictions of doom scattered around the webfrom various knee jerk opponents (note: not critics theirconstructive observations serve a critical feedbackfunction) whostill claim it is a temporary phenomenon which cannotpossibly succeed longterm amazingly tenacious. Regarding finances. Yes they still beg for money andallow the servers to slow down response when inadequaterather than doing some basic long term business planning andgetting the foundation on a solid continuously fundedfooting. However a rapid response emergency plan has beenfloated as a balloon on the mailing list… Why? I think it is anartifact of early days when growth was paramount. Thatgrowth recruited people who love the immediacy of the “WikiWay!” Whenever the subject of rationalizing version controland presenting the best available approved version to thepublic as default rather than whatever was edited a fewseconds ago the Wiki Way people get hysterical. Every oneelse agrees that Wikipedia is not finished yet and drops thesubject to calm the hysterical vanity tweakers my tweaksmust show immediately to public cannot be restricted justto active editors for mere eternities much less days orweeks or months until ready to satisfaction of trustedcommunity members. f course Wikipedia willnever be finished. Just like a massive engineering projectthe redlines will never be done. Revision control isnecessary to have the correct version of drawings depictingbest known information regarding the facility or equipment. If used for critical engineering decisions the informationmust still be checked against the physical plant equipmentor software release versions and any redlines hanging in thedrafting queue or in technicians work order files.
The future of learning: Your views
CNN International – Nov 24, 2007
knowledge however is irreplaceable in that process. And with such an open institution like Shibuya the ways to knowledge are forged. My hats off to you! From: Mark Stevens Aberdeen Scotland Date: November 5 2007 Your view: Wikipedia is great!!! The possibility of data being modified to suit agendas pranks or vandalism does raise concerns as to the value for research or general knowledge. That said though even main stream peer reviewed research is at times fraught with inaccuracies coloured by agendas and ignorance and in many cases know-it-all attitudes. History is evidence enough of that… n reading the relevant material each reader can if there is any reason for any sense of uncertainty make further reference to other similarly accepted and respected sources of substance for confirmation as to the accuracy deficiency or inordinate extravagant verbosity in the material posted therein. From: Mark Moisan Portland R Date: November 5 2007 Your view: I understand academic concerns about wikipedia not being peer reviewed however I believe that it is as trustworthy as ‘traditional’ media sources. the article makes reference to an error in an article about the Kennedy assassination.
AQA puts answers on your mobile
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 24, 2007
Whatever you want to know – from what happened in episode 15 of Desperate Housewives (Mike was arrested for Mrs Huber’s murder) to who scored the first hat-trick in the FA Cup (William Townley in 1890 during Blackburn Rovers’ 6-1 trouncing of Sheffield Wednesday) – Wikipedia has the answer. But what if you’re not at a computer screen when a tricky question pops into your head? What if you’re stuck in a traffic jam? r in a restaurant enjoying a meal with friends and an unseemly scrap breaks out over dessert as to how Eton Mess got its name? It wouldn’t be good manners to whip out your laptop. And even if you did Wikipedia will just give you the bare facts. There’s no pizzazz. Any Question Answered on the other hand is obsessed with the “wow factor”. Text your question – any question – to AQA (63336) and they will reply with an answer that tries to encapsulate all the wry humour effervescent enthusiasm and mind?boggling knowledge of a TV quizmaster. No matter how big small or unorthodox your question AQA aims to reply within half an hour and claims to answer 85 per cent of all text queries in under five minutes.
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