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Wikipedia scores $3m donation Which is nice Wikipedia, the people's encylopedia, has trousered a $3m donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to be paid in equal chunks over three years. Which is nice. Even nicer, the money hails from a charity, and not from philanthropic venture capitalists, who may or may not have comm Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Wikipedia:Multi-Agent System Wikipedia's entry for multiagent systems is kinda neat. It explains how the wikipedia itself is a multiagent agent systems by breaking it down to its particular tasks, agents, control flow, etc. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > MultiAgent |
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Bits: Wikipedia, Meet Google’s Knol After seven months of testing, Google rolls out Knol, a service that has been described as a Wikipedia killer. Read about it on Wikipedia. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com Readers who caught Dow Chemical erasing mention of the deadly Bhopal spill from its Wikipedia page won Wired.com an award for innovative journalism. The Threat Level blog won the Knight-Batten award for creating a venue for readers to popularize anonymous, whitewashing edits of Wikipedia they found Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com Readers who caught Dow Chemical erasing mention of the deadly Bhopal spill from its Wikipedia page won Wired.com an award for innovative journalism. The Threat Level blog won the Knight-Batten award for creating a venue for readers to popularize anonymous, whitewashing edits of Wikipedia they found Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Google's Knol: It's a Wikipedia Jim But Not As We Know It Free Software Magazine: "Shall I compare thee to a Knol? Hmm, perhaps not. Wikipedia sounds just right. Memorable and serious but not too serious. Of course Wikipedia is now an established "brand" and it has a big headstart on any competitor." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Wikipedia Founder Brings Search Project NEW YORK -- The founder of Wikipedia says taking the online encyclopedia's collaborative approach into the field of search won't dethrone Google Inc. or another major search engine _ at least not soon. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > WashingtonPost |
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Macworld 2008 Stevenote Highlights Leaked on Wikipedia A list of highlights for Tuesday's Stevenote were leaked on Wikipedia. Announcements include an official iPhone SDK unveiling, a 16-GB iPhone, a 13-inch, black and silver 0.8-inch thick redesigned MacBook and direct YouTube for Apple TV. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Macworld 2008 Stevenote Highlights Leaked on Wikipedia A list of highlights for Tuesday's Stevenote were leaked on Wikipedia. Announcements include an official iPhone SDK unveiling, a 16-GB iPhone, a 13-inch, black and silver 0.8-inch thick redesigned MacBook and direct YouTube for Apple TV. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets 'Wikipedia' Approach Will Transform Congress Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig launches a new Wikipedia-like effort to make lawmakers' activities more transparent. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets 'Wikipedia' Approach Will Transform Congress Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig launches a new Wikipedia-like effort to make lawmakers' activities more transparent. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Wikipedia vs. the World Oh no, it's another Wikipedia-killer in the wild. Home > Rss Directory > General > Motley Fool |
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China allows access to English Wikipedia HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities appeared to have lifted a block on the English-language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, but politically sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square are still off limits. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Reuter |
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Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article Send in the clowns Updated Phorm has admitted that it deleted key factual parts of the Wikipedia article about the huge controversy fired by its advertising profiling deals with BT, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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A Slice of German Wikipedia to Be Captured on Paper In an odd experiment in reverse publishing, a collection of Wikipedia articles in Germany is being produced in book-form by a major publisher. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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A Slice of German Wikipedia to Be Captured on Paper In an odd experiment in reverse publishing, a collection of Wikipedia articles in Germany is being produced in book-form by a major publisher. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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US Department of Justice banned from Wikipedia CAMERA and The Electronic Intifada Wikipedia has temporarily blocked edits from the US Department of Justice after someone inside the government agency tried to erase references to a particularly-controversial Wiki-scandal.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Wikipedia goes to court to defend defamation immunity It needs a win Wikipedia, the free, user-generated online encyclopedia, faces a court battle to protect itself from liability for everything that users post on the site. The company behind the site will argue that it should be granted immunity under US law.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset is launching a public beta of its semantically rich Wikipedia search engine. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Web start-up unveils semantic Wikipedia search tool SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as Google. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Reuter |