Fotopedia: The New Wikipedia for Photos
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- Fotopedia: The New Wikipedia for Photos
- Wikipedia bound
- Google Adds Editing Tools to nline Translation
- Wikipedia blocks pro- anti-Scientology editors
- Traces of Gunman’s nline Life Begin to Vanish
- Songkick Combines Twitter And Wikipedia For Concert Listings
Fotopedia: The New Wikipedia for Photos
Examiner.com
A Wikipedia article brings in a couple sentences of text information and occasionally a Google map is displayed. The emphasis is on the photos. With Fotopedia you can create or manage photo encyclopedia articles. Photos can be uploaded by their desktop application or can come from Flickr Picasa or FaceBook. Users may vote on the relevance of the photos which keeps them high quality.
Wikipedia bound
Baltimore Sun
I’m assuming the author of this post is talking about aesthetics alone and sure printing out and binding all those entries into one book looks ridiculous. As would the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Google Adds Editing Tools to nline Translation
PC World
“We have covered more than 98 percent of the world’s population” said Michael Galvez product manager at Google. Instead of re-creating content in local languages Google translate and the translator toolkit allow people to translate existing content Ram said. By an arrangement with Wikipedia users can download a Wikipedia entry into the translator toolkit translate it into a local language using machine translation correct and polish the translation and post it to the online encyclopedia. The editing can be done using a document layout that general users are familiar with Ram said. Professional translators can also upload personal files to the translator toolkit and use the toolkit provided by Google which includes a glossary and dictionary among other features Galvez said. The local file and the translation can be kept private he added. A translation memory database in the toolkit provides lookups to previous translations of similar sentences and text Ram said.
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Wikipedia blocks pro- anti-Scientology editors
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has blocked all contributions from computers at the Church of Scientology’s Los Angeles headquarters to stop users there from revising articles to reflect a pro-Scientology viewpoint. html ——> Get Quote.
Traces of Gunman’s nline Life Begin to Vanish
New York Times Blogs
1845 settling in St. ”There were also traces of what appeared to be Mr. von Brunn’s work as a Wikipedia editor albeit a very very occasional one. More than a year before the shootings the editor James von Brunn made a simple change to the article about Cordell Hull the secretary of state during the Roosevelt administration. Next to a listing of Mr. Hull?s wife Rose Frances Witz he added the words ?.
Songkick Combines Twitter And Wikipedia For Concert Listings
BeatCrave.com
It combines tickets for purchase provides listings and community discussions. The site now has over one million concert listings the largest in the world and allows fans to upload their own content like. It’s possible to add photos videos set lists images of ticket stubs posters and your own concert reviews for each show listing. You can also follow people bands venues or festivals in the same way as you would on.
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