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27 Aug 08

Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit

In many ways, the rented office befits the Wikimedia Foundation, the 5-year-old nonprofit group that runs Wikipedia, and an organization rich in dichotomies.

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16 Aug 08

WikiTaxi [Delphi Inspiration]

The huge English Wikipedia easily fits on a 8 GB memory stick.

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01 Aug 08

By the people - web - Technology - smh.com.au

The freedom of collaborative sites like Wikipedia is also their biggest flaw, reports Leon Gettler.

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04 Jul 08

Wikipedia Campaign - a set on Flickr

An assignment for Holly Shields' Art Direction II class at Texas State University. Spring 2008.

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05 May 08

infolitland - What to Do With Wikipedia

If you want to get five opinions from four information professionals, just mention Wikipedia. Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, g

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08 Jan 08

Science Library Pad: Wikipedia death watch?

For example, I find it very convenient to go to WIkipedia to lookup Cylon model numbers, while The WikiPowers That Be are beginning to tag such pages fancruft.

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28 Dec 07

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Nature's Flawed Study of Wikipedia's Quality

Kapor's remarks inspired me to take a look at that much-cited Nature article. I found that it was something less than I had expected.

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05 Nov 07

Use with caution: The perils of Wikipedia - CNN.com

So should we turn our backs on Wikipedia -- scratch it and start again? Absolutely not. As a project -- to gather together our collective knowledge -- Wikipedia is admirable. As a repository for human knowledge, it is invaluable. As an introductory resour

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07 Apr 07

Language Lab Unleashed! - it’s not your middle school language lab…

Middlebury College’s Department of History made headlines at the end of January when they announced a ban on the use of Wikipedia as a reference. Later in February, a Classics course at Oberlin College was required to use Wikipedia for a research assign

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07 Dec 06

Jimmy Wales » Blog Archive » Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats

People sometimes ask me why I’m so adamant that Wikipedia must always use free software, even when in some cases it might be the case that proprietary software might be more convenient or better suited for some particular need that we have.

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25 Nov 06

An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility

Wikipedia is an free, online encyclopaedia which anyone can add content to or edit the existing content of. The idea behind Wikipedia is that members of the general public can add their own personal knowledge, anonymously if they wish. Wikipedia then evol

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28 Oct 06

Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias? - WSJ.com

Can Wikipedia's everyone's-an-editor approach produce a reliable resource tool without scholarly oversight? Are traditional encyclopedias like Britannica limited by lack of input? The Wall Street Journal Online invited Mr. Wales to discuss the topic with

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06 Oct 06

Wikipedia:School and university projects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination exists to provide guidance to educators who incorporate Wikipedia writing assignments into their classes.

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21 Aug 06

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the be all and end all!

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15 Mar 06

Wikipedia for the rest of us: audio encyclopaedia with your mobile phone - FLOSSE Posse

In the MobilED initiative we are working on this direction. We are right now implementing an experimental audio encyclopaedia that makes it possible to search articles in a mediawiki server with SMS message. The server then calls you back and a speech syn

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14 Mar 06

FLOSSE Posse - powered by FeedBurner

In the MobilED initiative we are working on this direction. We are right now implementing an experimental audio encyclopaedia that makes it possible to search articles in a mediawiki server with SMS message. The server then calls you back and a speech syn

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04 Oct 05

Wikipedia in the classroom

Andy Carvin and Jimmy Wales have started a public conversation to see what educators have to say about Wikipedia.

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