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Artist Michael Mandiberg turned the online knowledge base into a 5 million-page, 7,600-volume, $500,000 collection of books...
View ArticleKonkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months
PANAJI: Piles of the thick four volumes of Konkani vishwakosh or encyclopedia waiting to be picked up by users at the Goa University (GU) will now attain a modern avatar. The volumes, work on which was...
View ArticleCityU celebrates International Women’s Day with feminist Wikipedia...
(Source: City University of Hong Kong) Page Content A unique attempt to encourage more women to become regular contributors to Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia, and to research and write...
View ArticleEdits to Wikipedia pages on cases of police brutality traced back to NYPD
Police departments across the country are now being scrutinized following the Justice Department's report claiming evidence of widespread racial discrimination within the Ferguson, Mo., police...
View ArticleWikimedia 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 ArticleAt a historically black university, filling in Wikipedia's gaps
NY Times Syndication Friday, February 20, 2015 12:49am WASHINGTON — Wikipedia is a vast ocean of erudition, with entries on virtually every subject, obscure to earth-shattering, and, it may seem, every...
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 Article'Government computers' deleted passages from Wikipedia page on Cherie Blair...
The deletion of passages in a Wikipedia entry about Cherie Blair’s flat-buying scandal and the addition of the phrase “all Muslims are terrorists” were among more than one hundred examples of...
View ArticleWikipedia articles about Cherie Blair and Muslim terrorists 'altered by...
The deletion of passages in a Wikipedia entry about Cherie Blair’s flat-buying scandal and the addition of the phrase “all Muslims are terrorists” were among more than one hundred examples of...
View ArticleDoes your small business need a Wikipedia page?
Have you ever considered creating a Wikipedia page for your small business? Wikipedia is undoubtedly one of the most popular websites. In fact, Wikipedia is the sixth most visited website on the...
View ArticleNYPD probes use of its computers to edit Wikipedia entries about Eric Garner...
Add comment Reprints + - A police car in Manhattan on Jan. 7, 2015. Photo Credit: Spencer Platt / Getty Images advertisement | advertise on newsday The NYPD is investigating the use of two of its...
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 ArticleSuccess for Malayalam Loves Wikipedia in third edition too
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Malayalam Wikipedia has made it big the third time too. A project to upload informative and copyright-free images through Malayalam Loves Wikipedia (MLW) has become a hit, with...
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 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 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...
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