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Convicted Murderer Sues Wikipedia, Demands Removal of His Name...compensation for "emotional suffering. " Wikipedia did not respond for comment. Granick said the First Amendment protects San Francisco-based Wikipedia. But it could find itself in the same position as Yahoo, which has been fined millions... In this article: Wikipedia, Walter Sedlmayr, Jennifer Granick, Yahoo, Scorpions, Parole, First Amendment, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Germany |
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CNET News.com | November 11, 2009
Bing getting a fall refresh
...might make it easier to stumble upon the previews. The hover feature was developed by the San Francisco-based team that Microsoft acquired as part of last year's acquisition of Powerset. Powerset, which developed a semantic search...
In this article: Bing, Microsoft, Google, Powerset, CNET News, Ina Fried, French fries, and Hamburger
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San Jose Mercury News | August 24, 2009
Wikipedia adding a layer of editing to articles about people
...adding a layer of editing to articles about people Officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, say that within weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin...
In this article: Wikipedia, Bing, English-language Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Yahoo, Google, and San Francisco
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U.S. News & World Report | August 25, 2009
Wikipedia's New Rules Don't Go Far Enough
Officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs Wikipedia, say that within weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles about living people. The...
In this article: Wikipedia, English-language Wikipedia, Web-based, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco, and New York Times
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NBC | October 14, 2009
WikiReader Brings Wikipedia Anywhere
...hierarchy of needs. But here's a thought: Why doesn't the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, spend less money on administrative salaries and more on subsidizing devices like the WikiReader? Jackson West would...
In this article: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Iphone, Jimmy Wales, and San Francisco
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ResourceShelf | October 22, 2009
Publish Your Own Magazine With the Help of Wikia and HP; Out of Copyright Books Can Also be Printed On-Demand
H-P (NYSE: HPQ) is working with Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, who started Wikipedia, on Mag Cloud, a service that lets people pay about 20 cents a page to create and print magazines from Wales' for-profit San Francisco-based Wikia Inc. business.
In this article: Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, Wikipedia, Hewlett-Packard, NYSE, Sacramento, and San Francisco
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NBC | July 14, 2009
Wikipedia Founder Defends Censorship
...a lot of explaining to do. Jimmy Wales, founder of the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation, personally intervened to keep news of a New York Times reporter's kidnapping from appearing on Wikipedia. David Rohde was kidnapped months...
In this article: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, David Rohde, Wikimedia Foundation, NPR, Taliban, and Afghanistan
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GlobalPost | September 12, 2009
Argentina's wired city
...using a combination of Wi-Fi and long-range WiMax technologies. The mayor bragged last year that he expected Rosario to become a "digital city" before San Francisco, Calif. The Wikimedia Foundation - which runs Wikipedia, the website that...
In this article: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, Buenos Aires, The Wikimedia Foundation, Latin America, Hipertextual, Nobel Prize, and Wikipedia
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San Francisco Chronicle | August 11, 2009
College textbooks available as iPhone download
...hopeful front-runners is the Palo Alto nonprofit CK-12 Foundation, whose advisory board includes Jimmy Wales, founder of San Francisco's Wikipedia, and high-powered valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, former CEO of Santa Clara's Sun...
In this article: Iphone, McKesson Corp., FLU, Virgin America, San Francisco, and California
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The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 14th most populous city in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 764,976. Among the most densely populated cities in the country, San Francisco is part of the San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan area, which is home to more than 7.2 million people. The city is located at the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, with the Pacific Ocean to the west, San Francisco Bay to the east, and the Golden Gate to the north.
In 1776, the Spanish settled the tip of the peninsula, establishing a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush in 1848 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After being devastated by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the send-off point for many soldiers to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors gave rise to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a liberal bastion in the United States.
- Name:
- Representation
- Also Known As:
- The City by the Bay, San Fran, Frisco, The City That Knows How (archaic), Baghdad by the Bay
- Type:
- City
- Motto:
- Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra
- Government type:
- Consolidated city-county
- Founding Date:
- June 29, 1776
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 231.92
- Land Area (sq mi):
- 46.7
- Water Area (sq mi):
- 185.2
- Elevation (ft):
- 52
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Standard Time
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