Med students should be editing not using Wikipedia
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- Med students should be editing not using Wikipedia
- Google Releases Translator Toolkit to Help Wikipedia Localization
- Scientology critics banned from editing Wikipedia
- Mahalo 2.0 is Wikipedia plus money
- Labour leader caught altering Wikipedia entry
Med students should be editing not using Wikipedia
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ur librarian knows it regular readers know it my mom knows it. I defend its value and its place in education as a quick reference preliminary source and bibliographic reference on a variety of topics. Properly sourced articles have a great deal of credibility. However I recently read about an.
Google Releases Translator Toolkit to Help Wikipedia Localization
Internet Search Engine Database
Many CAT tools already allow translators to store their human translations in a database called “translation memory” that can be later prove useful with future translations. However what is interesting in Google’s technology is that words phrases or sentences won’t have to be an exact match in order for the system to provide a suggestion: a percentage will serve as a rough indication for how similar the two phrases are alike which should help the translator’s work. When translating Wikipedia articles and Google Knols the translations will be stored in a global shared translation memory that will be available for everyone to see by default. That means that previously translated phrases from these articles will be stored and will be available for use by other translators which should allow for a considerably quicker translation process. Thanks to an agreement reached between Google and Wikipedia users can download a full Wikipedia entry into Google’s toolkit translate it into a local language using automated translation make the necessary corrections and then post them to the localized version of Wikipedia. Benefits for Google will mainly be in the improved quality of the online translation of blogs and other websites across a number of different language — the toolkit already supports nearly 50 of them.
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Scientology critics banned from editing Wikipedia
San Jose Mercury News
Wikipedia has blocked contributions from computers at the Church of Scientology’s Los Angeles headquarters as well as some critics of the religion. The move is aimed at diminishing a long-running war of words between the two groups said Dan Rosenthal a spokesman for English Wikipedia. Some bloggers worry the eighth-most-popular site on the Web is stifling free speech. Rosenthal told the Los Angeles Times it is standard practice to ban users found violating rules designed to keep people with an agenda from propagandizing.
Mahalo 2.0 is Wikipedia plus money
CNET News
He’s taking a page from. The big difference from Wikipedia is that he’s melding this idea with the. html” >Mahalo Answers business model in which users are paid for contributing content to the site.
Labour leader caught altering Wikipedia entry
Sify
Boothroyd used a false name as he made regular alterations to Cameron’s page. He has been forced to resign from his position on the website’s arbitration committee whose members settle disputes over just such changes.
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