Publisher 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 ArticleFirst book printed in Malayalam goes online
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: From a college library in Bangalore, a fragile copy of the first book printed in Malayalam -- SampkshepaVedartham -- has made a leap to eternity. Thanks to efforts by...
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 ArticleThe Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia...
(Source: Wikipedia - Wikimedia Foundation Inc) The Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia San Francisco, California -- 25 April 2013 -- A year after its announcement as the...
View ArticleWikipedia Becomes a Battleground for Art Activism
Artist-philosopher Adrian Piper wants her Wikipedia page gone. She finds its portrayal of her inaccurate, and she has never cared to compromise about anything. Early in her career, following the...
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 ArticleMuseum Welcomes Wikipedia Editors
WASHINGTON — No one knows the components of dark matter, the mystery of Mona Lisa’s smile or precisely how long it will take Kim Kardashian to lose the 50 pounds she gained during her pregnancy....
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's India chapter preps to participate in the world's largest...
The Internet's go-to website for every imaginable piece of information, Wikipedia, launches its international heritage photo contest in India. Dubbed as “Wiki Loves Monuments, India 2013” the photo...
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...
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