Wikimedia Commons celebrates its 10th anniversary (Wikipedia - Wikimedia...
(Source: Wikipedia - Wikimedia Foundation Inc) Wikimedia Commons celebrates its 10th anniversary 22 million+ images make Wikimedia Commons world's largest freely licensed educational media repository....
View ArticleOver 100 college students volunteer to upload city data on Wikipedia
NASHIK: A two-day workshop organised for the city college students for updating information about Nashik on Wikipedia for the Kumbh mela concluded on Sunday. Over 100 students from various colleges...
View ArticleSee the biggest stories of 2014 through the eyes of Wikipedia
In December, it is customary for Google, Twitter, Facebook and other web giants to go back and take a look at the biggest events of the year. Now, for the first time in its history, Wikipedia has...
View ArticleWikipedia Print Edition to Cost $500,000; Runs Into 7,600 Volumes
The first entry will be the 91-volume table of contents listing the nearly 11.5 million articles....
View ArticleWikipedia moves to bookshelves
NEW YORK – The Wikipedia entry for “quixoticism” runs only about 255 words. But if anyone could argue for a personal mention, it might be Michael Mandiberg....
View ArticleSDPD MISCONDUCT EDITED FROM WIKIPEDIA
A San Diego Police Department dispatcher and anonymous Wikipedia users have edited or deleted paragraphs from the misconduct section of the police department’s Wikipedia page five times since January...
View ArticleWikipedia Healthcare Editors Now Have Access to DynaMed Plus’ Evidence-Based...
Trusted, verified content helps Wikipedia editors enhance healthcare entries and verify accuracy IPSWICH, Mass, (PRWEB) July 14, 2015 Wikipedia healthcare editors will now have free access to the...
View ArticleWikipedia isn't perfect, but as a model it's as good as it gets
The row over Channel 4's revelations that people using government computers have been making questionable edits to Wikipedia pages is intriguing. It would of course be scandalous if it transpired that...
View ArticleNYPD computers used to change police-brutality Wikipedia pages
NYPD computers have been used to make changes to online encyclopedia Wikipedia’s pages describing cases of alleged police brutality, it was reported on Friday. The alterations to the free-access site...
View ArticlePublisher aims to put all 4 million Wikipedia articles into print
For some people, Wikipedia is the answer to everything. The always-growing, crowd-sourced encyclopedia is a source of knowledge and trivia used by undergraduates, assorted professional writers and...
View ArticleMore Like Dude-ipedia: Study Shows Wikipedia's Sexist Bias
Is Wikipedia mansplaining the world to you? Depending on where you sit on the feminist spectrum, this may or may not be something you're inclined to even notice. But whether you're sensitive to the...
View ArticlePrint Edition Of Wikipedia On Sale For �500,000
An artist says he wanted to turn a "new thing ... into that old thing" by publishing Wikipedia as a 7,600-volume book collection....
View ArticleWikipedia has changed our lives: Ravishankar
“Wikipedia has changed our lives as few other things have,” A. Ravishankar, project director, Wikimedia India, said in Bidar on Sunday. He was speaking at a training workshop for students about how to...
View ArticleMoving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves
The interdisciplinary artist Michael Mandiberg’s exhibition, “From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!” at the Denny Gallery, features his larger project called “Print Wikipedia.”...
View ArticleThe Wikipedia Books Project Aims to Print Site
PediaPress is hoping to raise $50,000 on IndieGogo for a major undertaking that would turn the entire English Wikipedia into a 1,000 volume print collection which would be...
View ArticleScotland's only arts-focused Wikipedia edit-a-thons take place this weekend...
(Source: Abertay University) As part of the international Art+Feminism campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, Dundee will be hosting two dynamic arts focused edit-a-thons this...
View ArticleTamil Wikipedia to publish two seminal works
In a move that could considerably bolster the freely-available database of Tamil articles online, Tamil Wikipedia has been given the licence to produce the entire collection of two seminal...
View ArticlePrinting Wikipedia Would Take 1 Million Pages, But That's Sort Of The Point
A German-based group called PediaPress is trying to raise enough money to make a print copy of all of Wikipedia. That's right, Wikipedia, the ever-evolving, always-changing, inherently digital...
View Article10 Summer Solo Shows Around the World in 2015
The summer group show: it is an art world standard, a simple placeholder for the slower months, and, increasingly, a clich� ripe for parody and subversion. But as the art world grows and grows, and the...
View ArticleWikipedia 1,000-volume print edition planned
Currently soliciting crowdfunding, scheme hopes to transpose website's 1.2m words onto paper for touring exhibition ...
View Article“100 Leading Global Thinkers” list by Foreign Policy magazine includes CSI...
(Source: CUNY - The City University of New York) Artist and professor Michael Mandiberg gathers with Secretary of State John Kerry and co-honorees in Washington, D.C. A leading educator at The City...
View Article>College of Staten Island, CUNY, Professor Included Among '100 Leading Global...
Artist and professor Michael Mandiberg gathers with Secretary of State John Kerry and co-honorees in Washington, D.C. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (PRWEB) November 25, 2014 An educator at the College of Staten...
View ArticleA guy is trying to publish the entirety of Wikipedia as a book
See Also It’s Wikipedia and it’s physically under one roof thanks to Michael Mandiberg, publishing site Lulu.com, and Denny Gallery New York. Michael Mandiberg co-author of Digital Foundations,...
View ArticleThese print editions of Wikipedia show the futility of big data and are...
The internet is a desert of data on which more sand is poured every day. It's exhaustiveness is both wonderful and a triumph of humanity, but also slightly terrifying and futile. Michael Mandiberg lays...
View ArticleYou can soon buy a 7,471-volume printed version of Wikipedia for $500,000
Wikipedia may have helped kill the printed encyclopedia, but the online crowdsourced fountain of knowledge will soon be available in physical book form too. From Aaaaa! to ZZZap! is a new exhibition...
View Article‘Print Wikipedia’ Totals 7600 Volumes, To Sell For $500,000
The “Print Wikipedia” project, described by Mr. Mandiberg as half utilitarian data visualization project and half absurdist poetic gesture, got its start on Thursday when Mandiberg began uploading all...
View ArticlePrint edition of Wikipedia to have 7600 volumes; to sell for $500,000
In an ambitious project, a New York artist is creating a print edition of Wikipedia that runs to 7,600 volumes and is...
View ArticlePrint Wikipedia, in 7,600 volumes, to sell for $500,000
In an ambitious project, a New York artist is creating a print edition of Wikipedia that runs to 7,600 volumes and is priced at $500,000. Michael Mandiberg, who teaches at the College of Staten Island...
View ArticlePrint edition of Wikipedia to sell for USD 500,000
New York: In an ambitious project, a NewYork artist is creating a print edition of Wikipedia that runs to 7,600 volumes and is priced at USD 500,000. Michael Mandiberg, who teaches at the College of...
View ArticlePrinted Wikipedia for $500,000
NEW YORK: In an ambitious project, A New York artist is creating a print edition of Wikipedia that runs to 7,600 volumes and is priced at $500,000. Michael Mandiberg, who teaches at the College of...
View ArticleRussia banned Wikipedia for hashish entry, lifts ban just hours later
Russia has long be the enemy of Western values. From suppressing dissent and doubling down on Russian Orthodox social values to passing laws aimed at suppressing NGOs that could be deemed a “threat” to...
View ArticleEmory students, faculty expand Wikipedia entries for underrepresented people,...
Emory University students and faculty will contribute articles and entries they’ve researched and written to improve...
View ArticleWikimedia Foundation to begin annual year-end contribution campaign...
(Source: Wikipedia - Wikimedia Foundation Inc) Wikimedia Foundation to begin annual year-end contribution campaign Non-profit appeals to readers ahead of Wikipedia's 15th anniversary San Francisco, CA....
View ArticleWikipedia celebrates its first fifteen years
FIFTEEN years ago today, on January 15th, 2001, Wikipedia was founded by two internet pioneers, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, although neither had any idea how ambitious their...
View ArticleCorrecting Wikipedia’s Gender Trouble (Carnegie Mellon University)
(Source: Carnegie Mellon University) Thursday, February 18, 2016 Back-to-back editing marathons on Friday, Feb. 26, and Saturday, March 5, inaugurate Pittsburgh's first Art+Feminism Wikipedia...
View ArticleMusician donates Gwalior Gharana songs to free e-library
MUMBAI: A few years ago, Mumbai-based musician Neela Bhagwat realized that her old notebooks filled with lyrics and notations of age-old 'bandishes' were in tatters. Afraid that she might lose them...
View ArticleOne Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake
Meet the ultimate WikiGnome. On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference. Maryana Pinchuk and Steven Walling...
View ArticleWikimedia Foundation launches year-end contribution campaign (Wikipedia -...
(Source: Wikipedia - Wikimedia Foundation Inc) Wikimedia Foundation launches year-end contribution campaign Wikipedia appeals to readers to support the world's largest free knowledge resource On...
View ArticlePediaPress, a book set of Wiki articles
For some people, Wikipedia is the answer to everything. The always-growing, crowd-sourced encyclopedia is a source of knowledge and trivia used by undergraduates, assorted professional writers and...
View ArticleGlobal Women Wikipedia Write-In expands entries of underrepresented people,...
(Source: Emory University) March 11, 2014 Contact Beverly Clark 404-712-8780 beverly.clark@emory.edu Students and faculty from Emory and other schools are working to expand Wikipedia entries for...
View ArticleSen. Rand Paul Uncovers $70,000 NSF Study Investigating the Gender of...
(Source: Rand Paul) 05.10.16 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Rand Paul today released the latest edition of 'The Waste Report,' which is an ongoing project cataloguing egregious examples of waste...
View ArticleWikipedia: Too Large To Ignore Anymore
All through high school, Ani Schug was told to steer clear of Wikipedia. Her teachers talked about the popular online encyclopedia "as if it wasn't serious or trustworthy" and suggested it only be used...
View ArticleWhy are police changing Wikipedia entries on controversial police action?
Computers on the New York Police Department’s network have been used to change the Wikipedia pages of multiple cases of controversial police brutality, according to Capital New York. Using the Internet...
View ArticleEdit-athon aims to put left-out black artists into Wikipedia
If you're trying to measure an artist's notability, one gauge is whether his or her work is owned by a major institution such as, say, the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Yet, of the 50 or so notable...
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