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Wikipedia founder creates on-line source of help for Tampa Bay's homeless...Francisco, where Wikipedia operations are based, and Los Angeles, Wales said. Wales established himself as an Internet entrepreneur by inventing Wikipedia.org, an online encyclopedia that can be updated or edited by anyone who uses the site. In this article: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, Tampa Bay, Bill Gates, YouTube, Facebook, and Tampa Bay Area |
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L.A. Times - The Envelope - Ultimate Awards Site | 11 hours ago
Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia top Webby Awards Top 10 Web Moments
...AdWords, which, as the Webbys put it, "turned advertising on its head" by opening the marketplace to any business.(2001) The launch of Wikipedia, which, with its 14 million articles in 271 different languages, unites readers and...
In this article: Twitter, Facebook, The Webby Awards, YouTube, Craigslist, Google Earth, Google Maps, Hulu, and Itunes
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
Wikipedia, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby...
In this article: Iphone, Twitter, NEW YORK, Democracy, The Webby Awards, International Academy, Google AdWords, Facebook, and Craigslist
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Yahoo! News | 1 day ago
Wikipedia, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments (Reuters)
...top 10 Internet moments Posted on - Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:54AM EST Add articles about technology to your My Yahoo! The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10...
In this article: Reuters Limited, Iphone, Twitter, Democracy, All rights reserved, The Webby Awards, International Academy, and Google AdWords
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Yahoo! News | 1 day ago
Wikipedia, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments (Reuters)
In this article: Reuters Limited, Iphone, Democracy, All rights reserved, The Webby Awards, International Academy, Google AdWords, and Twitter
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Sydney Morning Herald - Top Headlines | 5 days ago
Germans take on Wikipedia
...sources in Germany. Floyd Abrams, a prominent first amendment lawyer, said every judge on the US Supreme Court would agree that the Wikipedia article ''is easily, comfortably protected by the first amendment''. But Germany had come up...
In this article: Floyd Abrams, United States, Germany, English-language Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, and Jennifer Granick
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washingtonpost.com | 7 days ago
Wikipedia Runs Ads Highlighting Their No-Ad Policy
...sat next to Jimbo at a Wikipedia dinner over the summer. I begged him to put a leaderboard on Wikipedia and told him I would get AOL to sell it and host Wikipedia?for free. He declined saying there will never be ads on Wikipedia. I then...
In this article: Wikimedia Foundation, AOL, Revenue, Firefox, MediaWiki, Craigslist, Jason Calacanis, and Craig Newmark
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CNET News.com | November 12, 2009
Convicted murderer sues Wikipedia under privacy law
...lawsuit. At the time of writing, the full names of both murderers are still there in the Wikipedia entry for Walter Sedlmayr. However, the Wikipedia Administrators' noticeboard has a spirited discussion about all aspects of the case.
In this article: Walter Sedlmayr, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired, CNET, Jennifer Granick, and Boris Becker
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washingtonpost.com | November 12, 2009
Facebook, Wikipedia execs brief Vatican on Web
In this article: Vatican City, Vatican Radio, Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, Facebook, Jesus, Richard Williamson, Society of St. Pius X, and Claudio Maria Celli
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Wikipedia is a free, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning 'quick') and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 12 million articles (2.8 million in the English Wikipedia) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website. Launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the most popular general reference work on the Internet.
Critics of Wikipedia accuse it of systemic bias and inconsistencies, and target its policy of favoring consensus over credentials in its editorial process. Wikipedia's reliability and accuracy are also an issue. Other criticisms are centered on its susceptibility to vandalism and the addition of spurious or unverified information, though scholarly work suggests that vandalism is generally short-lived.
Jonathan Dee, of The New York Times, and Andrew Lih, in the 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism, have cited the importance of Wikipedia not only as an encyclopedic reference but also as a frequently-updated news resource.
When Time magazine recognized You as its Person of the Year for 2006, acknowledging the accelerating success of online collaboration and interaction by millions of users around the world, it cited Wikipedia as one of three examples of Web 2.0 services, along with YouTube and MySpace.
- Name:
- Wikipedia
- Type:
- Online encyclopedia
- Location:
- Miami, Florida
- Owned by:
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Language:
- 235 active editions (266 in total)
- Status:
- perpetual work-in-progress
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