Are we dangerously dependent on Wikipedia?
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- Are we dangerously dependent on Wikipedia?
- Google’s tweaked search results may keep us googling longer
- Social Media Madness ‘” The Final Four
- GLBAL: ‘Water wikipedia’ seeks partners to go multilingual
- Re: bama Renames the War on Terror
- Corcoran prison parolee guns down 4 akland Police officers
- ‘Wikipedia Revolution’ united users on Internet
Are we dangerously dependent on Wikipedia?
Salon
In less than a decade Wikipedia has become the world’s most popular encyclopedia expanding from a lone first article in English (a test post on the site with the text. But perhaps even more important than Wikipedia’s size is our increasing dependence upon the site.
Google’s tweaked search results may keep us googling longer
Ars Technica
Longer descriptions make it more likely that a user will find the answer to a query without clicking through. Google’s wider range of related searches is meant to lead you to keep searching a la the Wikipedia time-sucking vortex of link following. This could mean sites ultimate see less traffic from Google down the road though it will take some time before the true effect of the changes will be known.
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Social Media Madness ‘” The Final Four
Search Engine Watch
Based on the predictions for the winner of Social Media Madness in the bracket below it looks like Facebook (. Who Will be the Social Media King?.
GLBAL: ‘Water wikipedia’ seeks partners to go multilingual
IRINnews.org
?Think of it as a Wikipedia the strength of which is everybody can have an input? the Akvo co-founder said. Van der Linde said the idea was to enable people in the water and sanitation business to share their relevant good or bad experiences so that the knowledge bank on the subject keeps growing and improving. However the content on Akvo and Akvopedia is currently only in English a limitation van der Linde said they are working hard to remedy. Language barrier ?We are looking for support organisations and people who want to help us voluntarily? We are teaming up with partners in other countries such as India where we have a strong partner and they?ve done great work in disseminating part of the content in several languages there. We need these sorts of partners to help us develop the content further? he said.
Re: bama Renames the War on Terror
The Weekly Standard
It’s an appropriate definition. Take the “alleged” terrorists now being detained at Guantanamo Bay. According to this administration they are no longer enemy combatants. Does that mean they aren’t terrorists? Well they may be — it’s not necessarily true that they represent a threat to the United States but it’s not necessarily false either.
Corcoran prison parolee guns down 4 akland Police officers
Justice News Flash
According to Wikipedia www. org the city of akland California has a reputation for a high rate of violent crime. akland’s murder rate is about twice San Francisco’s or New York City’s. Crime remains one of akland’s most serious challenges today. This past weekend marks one of the most violent days against akland police officers in the history of the city. Four police officers dying in one day is a new record for this violence ridden American cities.
‘Wikipedia Revolution’ united users on Internet
Baltimore Sun
Two words fused together with a capital letter in the middle: The construction seems like it has been standard form all our lives. And yet as Andrew Lih describes in his book that comes out today The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia so-called CamelCase was the way computer programmers designated topics that would be linked together on the Internet. And it became the technical underpinning for Wikipedia the popular online encyclopedia that launched in 2001 about the time the commercial world adopted the spelling quirk to name companies and products. The first time Lih saw Wikipedia he thought it was “garbage” – an implausible ant-colony system of volunteers compiling a huge free online fact book. But he later became a volunteer editor for it himself. And he came to view the Web site that has become the ninth-most popular in.
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