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• In Brief: The folks behind Wikipedia are looking to ...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: David Vs Goliath Or Goliath Vs Bigger Goliath, Google, Search Engines, Wikipedia

  The folks behind Wikipedia are looking to put together a web search tool to rival Google. The search engine will be fueled by a community of editors much like Wikipedia. Will the "democratization of information" strategies that worked so well with Wikipedia translate to the web? Looks like we'll find out.

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• Wiki Search Takes On Big Dogs

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:08 am

  Tags: News, Google, Search Engines, Wikia, Wikipedia, Yahoo

  giants Google and Yahoo!, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that he is planning his own community-developed search service. Just this past week, Whales' commercial startup, named Wikia acquired a company walled Grub. Grub is a web crawler that will allow Wikia to find and index websites. In the tradition of his original project, Wikia,

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• Search Wikipedia and RSS News Feeds via SMS

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Handy Resources, Journalism, Mobile, Rss, Search, Wikis, Lifehacks, Sms, Text Messaging, Wikipedia

  has set up a way to query Wikipedia via text messages using their Text2WAP technology. All you need to do is send a text message to the number 23907 with the word ABOUT followed by your search topic - e.g. ABOUT WIKIPEDIA. You will then get a link back to a special mobile-friendly version of the Wikipeida entry. In addition, the company has

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• Jimmy Wales: Google's China mistake

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:29 pm

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Wikipedia

  Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales says that Wikia, his new for-profit wiki and search engine company, will never censor its content or compromise its users the way Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have done in China. In Taipei at Wikimania, the annual world conference for people who work on Wikipedia and all its associated

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• Search Wikipedia and RSS News Feeds via SMS

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Handy Resources, Journalism, Mobile, Rss, Search, Wikis, Lifehacks, Sms, Text Messaging, Wikipedia

  has set up a way to query Wikipedia via text messages using their Text2WAP technology. All you need to do is send a text message to the number 23907 with the word ABOUT followed by your search topic - e.g. ABOUT WIKIPEDIA. You will then get a link back to a special mobile-friendly version of the Wikipeida entry. In addition, the company has a

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• Wikipedia: Evaluate facts with color-coded pages

  Published: August 4, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Research, Top, Wikipedia

  evaluate the reliability of Wikipedia articles: color coding based on specific editorial reputation. Text is colored in various orange-y shades, and if it's close to dark orange? Danger, Will Robinson! So far, the project has only analyzed a couple hundred pages or so, but I think that this is a great way to manage the somewhat tricky problem

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• SMS: Search Wikipedia via text message

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Cell Phone, Cell Phones, Mobile Phones, Sms, Wikipedia

  messaging interface to the Wikipedia. Text the words about <your search term> to short code 23907 and you'll get back a link to a mobile-friendly, shortened Wikipedia page. This is fantastic for quick trivia look-ups on the go - but it does require that you can surf the web on your cell phone. (If only they texted you back the results...)

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• Chocolate Rain By Tay Zonday

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Entertainment, Chocolate Rain, Chocolate Rain Jimmy Kimmel, Chocolate Rain John Mayer, Chocolate Rain Lyrics, Chocolate Rain Video, Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Wertz, Tay Zonday Chocolate Rain Video, Tay Zonday Video, Tay Zonday Wiki, Tay Zonday Wikipedia

  tay zonday wiki, tay zonday wikipediaDid you enjoy reading this post? Buy me a nice cup of coffee to fuel my late night writing sessions and keep the content

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• Overcoming Women's Wiki-Invisibility

  Published: August 4, 2007, 2:56 pm

  Tags: Wikipedia

  not just that Wikipedia needs your help, with incomplete law-related entries, as previously noted. IntLawGrrls points out that women's Wiki-Invisibility -- the absence of coverage of women in the law on the web -- reinforces women's invisibility. IntLawGrrls posts on the issue of women in international law, specifically the absence of

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• Wikipedia wants your help

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:21 am

  Tags: Wikipedia

  Ralph Luker notes that since Wikipedia plays such an important role in history education, some historians are working to improve it, playing important roles in Wikiprojects in particular fields of history. It turns out, there are also Wikipedia projects in law that seek to improve Wikipedia's law-related listings. Some of the difficulties in

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• Find Related Wikipedia Content with Similpedia

  Published: August 12, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: Rss, Search, Widgets, Wikis, Bookmarklets, Lifehacks, Similario, Similpedia, Wikipedia

  Wikipedia is by far one of the most useful sites on the Web - at least to me. That's why I am looking forward to seeing what Jimmy Wales and crew come up with when they launch their new search engine. In the meantime, there is a new Wikipedia tool, however, that has caught my attention - Similpedia. Similpedia takes any links and shows you

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• Software enables all to see who’s editing Wikipedia

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:32 pm

  Tags: Wikiscanner, Wikipedia

  Wikipedia Scanner is a new site that tracks edits made on Wikipedia. The reason this was created was to see who is behind edits that are being made on Wikipedia, and also for transparency sake for self-interested corporations trying to protect their company or promote themselves. The software was created by Virgil Griffith, a CalTech Student.

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• Bookmarklets: Find related Wikipedia articles with Similpedia

  Published: August 14, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Bookmarklets, Research, Search, Search Techniques, Wikipedia

  a handful of links to Wikipedia articles related to the content. You can search Similpedia from their home page, but the easiest way to use Similpedia is with their browser bookmarklet. Just drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and then click it from any page. To narrow down the related links, select a specific chunk of text you're interested

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• Kevin Kelly@Pop!Tech: Where does collective intelligence begin?

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:39 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Wiki, Collective Intelligence, Kevin Kelly, Pop Tech, Poptech06, Poptech2006, Wikipedia, Wired

  collective superiority of wikipedia over one individual's knowledge, but in the realm of creativity we are looking at things far more subjectively. Everyone has an inkling of creativity in them, so the differentiating factor, as Stephen Heppell commented last month, is ingenuity. My definition of ingenuity is completely different from the next

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• Wikipedia: Identify anonymous edits with Wikipedia Scanner

  Published: August 15, 2007, 8:29 am

  Tags: Identity, Web Applications, Wikipedia

  up your hard work on the Wikipedia? Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tech, created a tool that identifies anonymous Wikipedia editors based on the digital footprint left by their IP addresses. Griffith thus downloaded the entire encyclopedia, isolating the XML-based records of anonymous changes and IP addresses. He then correlated

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