Wikipedia

The Microsoft Live search engine automatically pulls up the first paragraph of any relevant Wikipedia entry in its search results.

If the time I've spent on Wikipedia were converted to money, it would add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for me.

Wikipedia editors have no incentive to be right, or to be objective.

If the safety of a product is at issue, you wouldn't look it up in Wikipedia.

As opposed to these tangential references, Wikipedia has also been used for more significant facts.

Wikipedia's reliability may be joked about, but it has proved to be just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

And I'm going to tell you what the cost of Wikipedia is, but first I'll show you how big it is.

Some of that data may be originally analyzed at Google, but a lot of it is clearly coming in from Wikipedia.

Second, it could host ads for the support of the Wikimedia Foundation, without compromising the non-commercial nature of Wikipedia itself.

Under the current system, it is not difficult to insert false information into a Wikipedia entry, at least for a short time.

Watched this as a kid. It's even better than I remembered. Oh, and for more info you can try wikipedia.

However, statistics released by the site's analytics team suggest Wikipedia's explosive growth is all but finished.

Admin rights are granted for one wiki each, by the community of that wiki. So, yes, it is restricted to the German language Wikipedia.

Wikipedia tells me that a kenning is called a kenning from a norse phrase translating as "to express a thing in terms of another. "

Wales joining the board makes sense considering that Hunch combines the crowd-sourced nature of Wikipedia with a Q&A site.

But give it a try, because Hemingway can teach you more about masculinity than Wikipedia ever will.

"It was like passing through checkpoints, " he said. "But I had Wikipedia and a few other sites open, so it was not so difficult really. "

When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something different.

Think of it as a place where user-generated information meets official stats, sort of like Wikipedia plus Yahoo! Finance.

You are part of our community. And I'm writing today to ask you to protect and sustain Wikipedia.

(Look it up on Wikipedia if you do not know what I'm talking about).

If you think of the concept of Wikipedia where everyone is collaborating on content.

The reviewers found a few serious errors, and quite a few minor errors in both (Wikipedia had a few more minor errors).

He said he became frustrated with Wikipedia's failure to build expertise into its editing process and left after its first year.

People used to have to register to make these sort of changes to high profile Wikipedia pages and then wait a few days.

Wikipedia is run as a charity by the Wikimedia Foundation so, free from commercial pressures, Mr Wales can be very candid about the site.

Before Google or Wikipedia, the English came here to put a face to the name of a who's who list in history.

The Translator Toolkit is integrated with Wikipedia, making it easy to publish translated articles.

If you look up a subject you know about on Wikipedia, you will find that it mostly gets things right.

He's wants to know how the computer works, how it's arranged, unlike his wife who's more into Wikipedia.

Trevor closed his eyes and recited. "Wikipedia. "

Right away, we get a sense of what are the topical domains that are most popular on Wikipedia.

Citizendium, supposedly launching soon, aims to be like Wikipedia but without anonymity, and with more weight given to recognised experts.

The combination of data sources and the Google Map API is referred to as a " mashup" (Wikipedia. org) or Web application hybrid.

The best known is of course Wikipedia, but that's far from the only wiki that has changed the world.

ALEX: Wikipedia is not the only organisation driving the diversification of language found on the Internet.

Therefore we deem Wikipedia ready to join the ranks of other UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Well, not necessarily. The open nature of Wikipedia has been its greatest resource, and it has emerged as a credible resource.

Furthermore, there has always been a persistent effort by webmasters to get listed in open directories such as dmoz and Wikipedia.

I'm also really into the fact that the etymology of seersucker came from my own country, India (thank you Wikipedia).

Keep your Wikipedia entry short enough in length to the point of having it come across as mysterious yet filled with eloquent tradition.

Several politicians and TV personalities have had their deaths announced on Wikipedia while they were still in fine fettle.

They were a major source of vandalism for the Dutch Wikipedia, and so most of the Dutch moderators did not like them.

And so to see Swahili to have a presence online, to see Swahili wikipedia hit 1000 articles is just a wonderful thing.

We argue it's the later, but it's easy to imagine many people seeing Wikipedia on a news page and feeling pretty cynical about it.

A while ago I talked to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about some of this, and asked him who his perfect contributor was.

Note, that this app is only a reader, the books, like for example the Wikipedia, need to be downloaded separately.

I actually had somebody say to me at a baseball game that I was the first person he knew on Wikipedia . . .

Digg and Wikipedia would do well to stop pretending they're operated by the many and start thinking of ways to rein in the power of the few.

However, counterbalancing the free nature of, and many contributors to, Wikipedia is the issue of quality.

I'd also really like to see better linking between the different languages of wikipedia.

As a way of learning about the Nazi's early years in power, Larson's book is a lot like Wikipedia: a great place to start but not to stop.

Instead, it could be the end result of a battle between two competing factions of Wikipedia editors.

I need a simple social network based around profile pages a bit like wikipedia pages with all your information.

It has also created an expectation that all tasks can be accomplished as quickly as it takes to check a Wikipedia page.

Identifying those people in a systematic way is just one example of the kind of value add that can be built on top of Wikipedia.

More info: It may not be for sale yet, but it already has its own Wikipedia entry, and that's a start.

Wikipedia is one of the few websites out there that doesn't allow you to delete your account.

Wikipedia has a number of good articles covering some of the main technologies used.

According to Wikipedia James V had at least nine illegitimate children and three of those he fathered while still a teenager.

Clicking on, say, the name of a historical figure, however, will pull up its Wikipedia entry.

Wikipedia as an online encyclopedia is available in many languages (dialects as well).

In the past month there's been a media narrative floating about that Wikipedia is in decline.

They spoke with several politicians, explaining the workings of Wikipedia and its special problems with copyright law as it stands.

It concluded that the correlation between article quality and the number of edits validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort.

Martinez's work has become known worldwide--he even has his own blog and a page on Wikipedia--but he receives little funding.

If you lookup a subject you know about on Wikipedia, you will find that it mostly getsthings right.

When you add Wikify to a wave, it provides instructions on how to add a link to Wikipedia for a topic, or a definition of that topic.

And with new software development approaches daily builds (wikipedia entry) are commonplace, this becomes really important.

With the Wikipedia approach, you'll also quickly find your way to the Foundations of Mathematics, the Rome to which all math roads lead.

As an aside, it is worth noting that the Wikipedia articles on Bryce linked to above already mention the subject of the plagiarism.

According to Wikipedia, a widget is "a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device. "

One of the biggest expressions of open source culture is Wikipedia, perhaps the most comprehensive and useful encyclopedia ever created.

People used to say you couldn't trust anything written on Wikipedia, but they used to say that about the whole internet.

So Wikipedia is trying to make its editors' lives simpler and more attractive.

Wikipedia offers a number of definitions but generally being charitable refers to providing help or relief to the poor and needy.

A banning of a controversial Wikipedia entry in the U. K. has raised serious free speech issues.

Parts of Wikipedia, BBC News, Twitter and Webster's online dictionary have been blocked, though sometimes only briefly.

This seems to cut to the quick of what Wikipedia is about.

The very existence of such outfits hints at Wikipedia's importance, as well as its susceptibility to outside influence.

Wikipedia has a big, engaged community that's worked out some practices and tools to make it all work as well as it does.

And by supporting us, you can thank the thousands of volunteer contributors who build Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Several requests were made to French institutions to obtain authorization for the publication of documents in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is the Foundation's most popular project, and is utilized in numerous educational programs throughout the developing world.

Even though we're non-profit, it would be possible for Wikipedia to run advertising.

Some of the nation's top health, science, and medical minds will take a one day course on the mechanics and formatting of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia: In a few short years, this has become one of the most useful tools ever.

The next day, I looked up Asperger's syndrome on Wikipedia.

With the continued growth of Wikipedia and its sister projects, it's worth asking what the Wikimedia ecosystem will look like down the road.

This adds up to a bad situation for Wikipedia.

Kidding aside, historically, there was a point to the term "single-lens reflex" (yes, I use Wikipedia, too).

Wikinews, like its big sister Wikipedia, is run and funded by volunteers donating their time and money, and has no advertising.

In short: it would be unwise to rely on Wikipedia as the final word, but it can be an excellent jumping off point.

Over the last few months, Wikipedia's been on a rather relentless fundraising drive that ended up bringing in $8m of cash to keep it going.

Josh was such a Wikidiot that he used Wikipedia as a source in his thesis paper.

So Wikipedia -- you just saw the little demonstration of it -- it's a freely licensed encyclopedia.

Wikipedia showed that the model could be used to create a sprawling and surprisingly comprehensive online encyclopedia.

Does that mean that Wikipedia will never, ever run advertising of any kind, anywhere?

An instance of a Zend_Rest_Client object is created and initialized with the Wikipedia API service endpoint as constructor argument.

Essentially it allows users to overlay information from Wikipedia onto a photo of a certain location, via Mobile Google Maps.

In many countries, it seems that Wikipedia is now considered a reference, without need for further description.

I cannot read Chinese. Please do not leave any message in the talk page in the Chinese Wikipedia.

In fact, there would be only 16 foreigners if I hadn't gotten lost in a Wikipedia hole about the Icelandic financial crisis.

Well you could read on wikipedia or what ever it is called.

And what I will have answered you is not mainly from Wikipedia or. . . any textbook. . . anything like that but my very personal answers.

Many users feel underrepresented and are concerned that Wikipedia is the only project the board cares about.

Thank you for using Wikipedia. You're part of this story: please make a donation today.

The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia.

The entire English section of Wikipedia, dumped into a machine readable format.

This departs somewhat from the core mission of Wikipedia, but I think it would be beneficial is several ways.

So I go, "You know, why do we go on the Internet, and maybe we can see . . . " like on Wikipedia.

But Wikipedia's English language content accounts for only a fifth of the collaborative encyclopedia's content.

Even Fan's Wikipedia page had already been updated with a line referring to the incident.

If you look at a PHP application like Mediawiki (wikipedia), it's obvious how the lower-level code could be better written in Java.

The company already offers an iPhone app (iTunes link) that gives users access to an iPhone-optimized view of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia editors have encountered problems in obtaining documents that should be largely accessible to the public.

Sometimes, however, we have debated a subject and decided that it currently does not merit inclusion in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia keeps track of all the changes every registered user has ever made to the site, when the edits were made, and what they were.

It's a darling of those who believe that opening up data for free use, reuse, and contribution by users advances society and civilization.

But Wikipedia also reveals some of the pitfalls of the increasingly popular "crowdsourcing" model of content creation.

He calls for a Wikipedia-style IPCC, with small groups of lead authors managing separate sections of the website.

And for comparison, this image from Wikipedia, on what a normal jet stream over the US is supposed to look like.

January 11, Wikipedia founder A Sangqi decrypted by a court in London to attend the hearing.

Wikipedia: Random is simply a means of randomly stumbling on a Wikipedia article.

Last December, I tried to explore this idea by myself with a Wikipedia-like open source (with database also) project, OpenHuman.

So instead of reaching for your laptop to search Wikipedia while you're in front of the TV, you can do it all with one device.

Of course, this is only a first attempt and we laud the Wikipedia Mobile team for releasing this app as an open-source application.

Female editors were more likely to stop editing and leave Wikipedia when their edits are reverted as newcomers.

I don't know much about Rohn (like me you can look him up on Wikipedia), but I found his statement of enormous interest.

I'm always reading about different stuff on Wikipedia, and I thought it was a perfect place to find a name.

Of course, many subscribers to Britannica will still use Wikipedia or other Web sources for research.

Wikipedia's leaders say this reflects the fact that the large majority of subjects have now been written about.

A recent debate erupted on Wikipedia concerning the public posting of popular interpretations of the Rorschach test.

Still, Baidu Encyclopedia now has close to two million articles, compared with the less than 300, 000 on Chinese Wikipedia.

Wired. co. uk: Do you see a time when Wikipedia could be a credible academic source?

But remember that it does not contain the entire gamut of Wikipedia; just the more important ones for ready reference.

Looks and feels like Wikipedia, but with a more "scholarly" atmosphere.

The Wikify bot adds links to and definitions from Wikipedia to your waves for a given topic.

Editors working on the fly from mobile devices will have to click a link reading "View this page on main Wikipedia" to disable the redirect.

From the numbers, it looks as though Wikipedia is stagnating. Why?

This Wikipedia entry includes great information as well as a useful list of function classes.

Wikipedia is not immune from that kind of maliciousness, but it is, relative to other features of life, more easily corrected.

India is a sensible choice for an outfit with limited resources: a large, English-speaking Wikipedia community already exists there.

The description fields would benefit from borrowing the first few lines of a Wikipedia article on a topic.

By contrast, the Wikipedia definitions (see Resources) primarily center on the frequency and amount of data exchanged between components.

You! Everyone can contribute to the lists, Wikipedia-style, to help make them better.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was also present on Tuesday to speak with Russian government leaders about the science park.

Apparently, the material on the Wikipedia site is free for use given that you cite Wikipedia as the source.

Even Ofqual conceded that Wikipedia "can be an excellent starting point for research" .

The results showed that, external factors had affected the development of Wikipedia, but did not curb its development trend.

Their daily job was to comb through various dictionaries, encyclopedias and Wikipedia to find words to add to the game.

But when he got home, he found no mention at all of China in the entry on Mr Maaten on the free online Wikipedia encyclopedia.

But with a site as complex and sprawling as Wikipedia, simply crunching the numbers proved a major task in itself.

In fact, even vague rumors of advertising led to a split of the Spanish Wikipedia into two communities in February 2002.

The latest changes come as Wikipedia tries to balance a need for credibility and a desire for openness.

Month-on-month article growth in the English Wikipedia was as high as 5% in 2006 but has stayed stubbornly at 1% for the past two years.

Think of Wikipedia's community of volunteer editors as a family of bunnies left to roam freely over an abundant green prairie.

A number of companies and projects embody the spirit of the New Rules of Working, but my favorites are Google, Wikipedia and Linux.

From huge corporate knowledge-bases to tiny church web pages, there are countless installations of wiki software around the web.

Beyond that, the site operates like Wikipedia, where users can create accounts, edit translations, and suggest or contribute content.

Here are four free tools for taking the Wikipedia knowledge off the net and into an anytime, anywhere experience.

So we do have edits by anonymous users, which is one of the most controversial and intriguing things about Wikipedia.

Mainstream media coverage of Wikipedia in its early days often focused on the seemingly random contributors to the site.

After all, since most people access Wikipedia pages via search, the inclusion of articles on niche topics will not inconvenience them.

WikiProject Echo : WikiProject Echo is a program where volunteer translators contribute their efforts to expanding the scope of Wikipedia.

The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is one publication covered by a Creative Commons license.

If you are interested in visiting a gravity hill, Wikipedia has a list of their locations around the world.

But over the years, as Wikipedia has added layers of control to bolster accuracy and fairness, it has developed a kind of bureaucracy.

Wikipedia offers them the same opportunity, and poses the same frustrations, as it does for everyone else.

Examples of modules are a dictionary module for word explanation and Wikipedia for encyclopedic reference.

He cites eBay and Wikipedia as two examples of things he would've thought impossible in decades past.

Will its editors be careful enough to beat the accuracy of user-edited Wikipedia?

The Wikipedia page on statistical inference defines the term in a sensible way, and points usefully to related concepts.

"Welcome to Wikipedia, self-improvement" is "the spirit of Shantou, " the core substance, is the core values of the Shantou culture.

Please do not contribute text in Chinese to English Wikipedia.

This project has nothing to do with the screenshot they are running, and this search project has nothing to do with Wikipedia.

A final caution is to avoid judging Wolfram Alpha too early when it comes to comparisons with Wikipedia and Google.

The image is also printed in books accessible in librariesis, a spokesperson for Wikipedia's U. K. -based volunteers pointed out to the BBC.

There are some non-profit CDNs in the market; check the CDN Wikipedia article to see if your project might qualify to use one of them.

In other words, a compromise between elitist and populist visions of what Wikipedia should be.

Martin based the description on a Wikipedia entry stating that Woodstock had an informal connection with Yale until 1956.

And today, Wikipedia is so ubiquitous that you can now find it on Chinese restaurant menus.

Britain's exam watchdog, Ofqual, warned in 2009 that Wikipedia was not "authoritative or accurate" and entries "may be completely untrue" .

If you want a brief overview of a topic and you want it fast, Wikipedia is second to none.

The Wikipedia site defines a wiki as a Web application designed to allow multiple authors to add, remove, and edit content.

Possibly the plan is to replicate the Wikipedia solution, then incorporate Powerset into Internet Explorer.

Our news stories are in the comfortable presentation style of Wikipedia, although the two organisations are not otherwise related.

Similarly, Wikipedia draws strength from its volunteers who catch and fix every act of online vandalism.

It is an open question whether enough people will contribute their data to generate the momentum of Wikipedia, but Mr Hillis is optimistic.

He recently launched his own search engine, Wikia Search, whichsearches only sites mentioned in Wikipedia.

For a taste of Wikipedia's future look, either log in on the site or check out our screenshot below of the 3 millionth article.

Early in this process, Wikipedia launched and began its completely unexpected rise into utility.

Wikipedia's article on itself does a good job of giving the gist of the project in its two first paragraphs.

One answer to this problem is for Wikipedia to end anonymous editing and force user accounts on anyone that wants to contribute.

We asked them a simple question -- what do you think about Wikipedia?

Last night, the Wikipedia blackout was the top story on the BBC.

Why are we telling our students not to use Wikipedia rather than educating them about how Wikipedia works?

Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground.

It includes glossary, controlled vocabulary, data dictionary, data model, taxonomy and ontology per Wikipedia.

Attacks such as that in Columbine (listed in great detail in Wikipedia) truly shocked America and led to a great deal of research.

Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopedia used worldwide, will be adding video to their online repository in a matter of months.

The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.

IT MAY not stir up international outrage like its semi-namesake WikiLeaks, but Wikipedia sparks debate.

Wikipedia: Article message boxes - The ( proposed ) style guideline for creating article message boxes .

Nevertheless, for initial volunteer buy-in, it may actually have closer ties to Wikipedia.

Organizers put up a Wikipedia-like website providing protest techniques and advice.

The fundraising campaign will run through January 2011. Users can donate here or by clicking on the notice on top of each page on Wikipedia.

And to the question and answer, logo search q&a, yahoo knowledge hall, interactive site wikipedia information released.

These crowd-sourced edits -- which work kind of like Wikipedia -- make Facebook's translation service smarter over time.

One day I shopped for an iPad GelaSkin; another I used the iPad version of Articles to look up two Wikipedia entries.

Campaigns Wikia is powered by the extremely capable Wiki platform, Mediawiki, the same one that powers Wikipedia.

Wikipedia articles about some places are also available which makes this all-time top free iPad application even more illustrative.

Politically, Wikipedia will do a lot to foster the free culture movement and especially to improve the atmosphere for copyright reform.

American Internet users spend more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined.

Ricky does not check this page regularly. Please leave message at Ricky's talk page at Chinese Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is still the most cited website on the Web, for social media users and bloggers.

At all times, Wikipedia is approximately 45 minutes away from utter destruction. Right?

Wikipedia, the famous online encyclopedia, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.

We translated the first paragraph of the Google article on Wikipedia from English to Chinese and then back to English.

With Wikipedia, entries can be updated and modified by anyone who registers with the site.

Hundreds of key projects need attention (a few examples); each one suited to the talents and interests of some current Wikipedia fans11.

Wikipedia contributors. " Wal-Mart. " Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

People are used to reading books, reading dictionary entries, reading Wikipedia.

Websites like Wikipedia with user-generated entries can give you just about anything you want. But do they have copyrights?

According to Wikipedia: "a wiki is a collection of webpages which users are allowed to modify" .

Wikipedia buckled temporarily after hundreds of edits were made to Jackson's page.

One accomplishment of Wikipedia no one disputes is the huge amount of user contribution.

Sometimes Wikipedia is better than your textbook.

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has unveiled a new community for sharing knowledge about environmental topics: Wikia Green.

Goldman envisions a future Wikipedia curated by a relatively small group of dedicated editors.

Seeking answers to these questions, she riffles through Addison's fan mail, scours her fan blogs and bones up on Holy City on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia has tried, unsuccessfully thus far, to get Wikipedian photographers into red carpet events and award shows.

But Wikipedia sent back a politely feisty response, stating that the bureau's lawyers had misquoted the law.

I'm currently writing a diploma thesis about the Wikipedia project and its editions in different languages.

Although Wikipedia provides an outlet for expertise, it does not cross the salience gap.

And . . . Wikipedia is fixed, finally. Okay, but no, this is really beside the point.

The Software Engineering Laboratory walks you through the process of downloading and setting up your own Wikipedia.

The results of the intermediate processes are stored in the directory named wikipedia in the base directory.

So if Wikipedia is showing these pictures of the holy prophet, then it gives a false image about how Islam was "SPREAD" .

First, we used Google search data to determine the most popular English Wikipedia articles read in India.

Goldman envisions a future Wikipedia crated by a relatively small group of dedicated editors.

A Wikipedia article on the war between Moldova and Transnistria is here.

Despite repeated attempts to compromise its integrity, Wikipedia remains the most popular online encyclopedia on the Web.

'We're glad that people in [mainland China] are now able to access Wikipedia in their own language, so they can both read and add to it.

Through the work of these individuals, Wikipedia has become the largest general reference work in history.

Wikipedia relies on its users' generosity to fill its coffers as well as its pages.

Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, will go down as an internet pioneer.

Wikipedia would fare much better if they acknowledge the wiki spirit of communities working towards improving articles over time.

A real friend would use Welcome to Wikipedia's mind to encompass your vexatious.

Download the Wikislice (part of Wikipedia) offline if the number of pages is less than 2000.