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- Encyclopedia or Wikipedia?
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Did Wikipedia Spoil The Winner of Tonight’s America’s Best Dance …
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Did Wikipedia spoil the winner of America’s Best Dance Crew Season Three – which airs tonight?The post by someone named Dom says he (she?) spotted a Wikipedia update which declared that Quest crew won the competition. The reason this post seems legit to me: the same thing happened last season. I noticed then that results were posted on the ABDC wikipedia page in advance of airing then erased a few hours later.
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Battle for control of Santa Cruz councilman’s Wikipedia page persists
San Jose Mercury News
If you get your information online your view of Councilman Ryan Coonerty may depend on who last edited his Wikipedia page. Two years after Coonerty joined the Santa Cruz City Council in 2004 his supporters created an admittedly glowing Wikipedia profile that they hoped might hook Web-savvy young voters. Though he has long since been re-elected to the council what once seemed like hip political strategy has become a headache as Coonerty 35 engages in an ongoing struggle to control his online image on Wikipedia “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. ” It has gotten to the point where “given it all I would rather just not have a Wikipedia page” said Coonerty who in 2007 became the youngest Santa Cruz mayor in 30 years. “It gets looked at a lot.
Wikipedia and Twitter Drive a Web 2.0 Whodunit
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
0 WhodunitWhen Jeremy Boggs a graduate student in history at George Mason University stepped away from American Idol to look up. Then again the Internet can be a strange place as an article in the.
Why Wikipedia block went wrong
ZDNet Asia
Through a combination of technical factors people wishing to edit Wikipedia were blocked from doing so causing an outcry. The image the IWF tried to block was the LP cover for Virgin Killer a 1976 album by German rock band Scorpions. Peter Robbins chief executive of the IWF talked to ZDNet UK about the fallout from the decision to block the page and whether self-regulation of internet content is effective.
Cure for cancer intermittently available on Wikipedia
Tiger Weekly
org finally approved a separate entry for “Cure for Cancer. ” The cure for all forms of cancer had been discovered more than four years ago by an independent researcher and obsessive pro bono Wikipedia editor known only by IP address 69.
Encyclopedia or Wikipedia?
CastroValleyForum.com
While I’m a firm believer in the democratization of information I’mpretty skeptical when it comes to the 21st century version of theencyclopedia. Wikipedia is a valuable tool for looking up informationbut there have been several notable incidents where information hasbeen modified as a prank or to enhance the status of the person orevent. Most notable is the case of John Seigenthaler who was the assistantto Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960s and founded theFirst Amendment Center in 1991. In May 2005 Seigenthaler’s Wikipediaentry suggested that he was involved in the assassination of PresidentJohn Kennedy.
Fanbois will abandon iPhone for Palm says Wikisugardaddy
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It’s a bizarre tale. At one point U2 front-man Bono personally wooed Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales on the roof of a five-star Mexican hotel. And the last chapter has McNamee.
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