One 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...
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(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 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 ArticleStephen Fry kickstarts Wikipedia’s celebrity voice archives
WikiVIP aims to let current and future generations hear what celebrities, scientists and influencers sound like...
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 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 ArticleNYPD Wikipedia edits: See the most alarming changes allegedly made by police...
An unknown person or persons working on computers at New York Police Department’s headquarters allegedly have been altering Wikipedia articles about controversial events that NYPD has been involved in...
View ArticleThis is what looks like when you print out Wikipedia
Artist Michael Mandiberg turned the online knowledge base into a 5 million-page, 7,600-volume, $500,000 collection of books...
View ArticleGeorge W Bush tops Wikipedia 15th birthday list
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has marked its 15th birthday with a list of the most edited pages on the site. The English language version of the site, which can anyone can edit, has more than five...
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 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 ArticleRussia threatens to block Wikipedia over cannabis page
The Russian government has threatened to ban Wikipedia over a page explaining charas, a hashish type of cannabis. Roskomnadzor, the Kremlin's internet watchdog, has reportedly written to Wikipedia's...
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 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 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 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 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 ArticleStephen Fry kickstarts Wikipedia’s celebrity voice archives
WikiVIP aims to let current and future generations hear what celebrities, scientists and influencers sound like...
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