Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-09-18/In the news
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9/12[edit] |
Big Brands: Do You Know What Wikipedia Saying About You Via Google | Search Engine Watch - USA | Steve Rubel produced a small study on the top 100 advertisers, according\nto AdAge, to see where in the Google rankings, does the brand\'s Wikipedia entry fall. | |
9/12[edit] |
INTERNET DAILY Why Wikipedia can be an advertiser's problem | MarketWatch - USA< | Google and Yahoo. That's because Wikipedia, the Internet's encyclopedic reference resource, has become so prominent. And because ... | |
9/13[edit] |
Checking Back Links From Wikipedia Articles | Search Engine Watch - USA | Steve Rubel spotted a new page at Wikipedia that allows you to quickly locate all the links pointing to a specific site from within the Wikipedia. ... | |
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DIGGITY DIGGITY FUCKING DOT com/article/58204/wikipedia_vs_the_encyclopedia_britannica.html\ Wikipedia Vs the Encyclopedia Britannica | Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA | “Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into\nthe largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia ... | |
9/12[edit] |
Will :Wikipedia Mean the End | Wall Street Journal | Wikipedia, the community-edited online encyclopedia, has blossomed. ... Does Wikipedia's open-editing approach yield better\nresults than traditional encyclopedias? ... | |
9/14[edit] |
Britannica versus Wikipedia heads to the WSJ | Ars Technica - Boston, MA, USA | ... of reading them. This week they pit Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief of Britannica, against Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales. Rather than summarize ... | |
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9/12[edit] |
Is Wikipedia 'knowledge' merely third party hearsay? | ZDNet - USA | Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, is a master communicator and salesman. The quality of the product that he touts, however, does not ... | |
9/13[edit] |
Wikipedia: Getting to Truth by 'Community' | ABC News - USA | In just five years, the Web-based, user-written encyclopedia called Wikipedia has grown exponentially. ... Wikipedia was launched on Jan. 15, 2001. ... | |
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9/13[edit] |
Wikipedia to take on academia | Indiana Daily Student - USA | Because it's so easily accessed and covers such a wide range of topics -- 1.3 million and growing -- Wikipedia has become a major resource for college students ... | |
9/14[edit] |
Students warned to be wary of Wikipedia | Gateway.ualberta.ca - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | VANCOUVER (CUP)—Although Wikipedia continues to be a popular online resource for students, some doubt its credibility and usefulness as an academic resource. ... | |
9/14[edit] |
Some professors doubt credibility of site | Indiana Daily Student - USA | With more than 1.3 million articles and counting, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, provides a wealth of information. ... | |
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9/11[edit] |
UK latches on to user-generated content | VNUNet.com - UK | Figures released by web monitoring company ComScore show Wikipedia as the 16th most visited online property in July 2006 with 6.5 million visitors (up 253 per ... See all stories on this topic | |
9/12[edit] |
'Web 2.0' sites see traffic explosion | Silicon.com | The Wikipedia network, which includes an online encyclopedia and dictionary written and edited entirely by users, has jumped from being the 78th most visited ... |
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9/12[edit] |
Facebook to students: Zuckerberg and VCs are 'in control' | ZDNet - USA | When will MySpace, YouTube, Digg, Wikipedia…start flexing their own Web 2.0 muscles and let their non-paying users know loud and clear who is "in control!". | |
9/13[edit] |
Wikipedia…Friend Or Foe? | Donklephant - USA | ... Yes, of course…but still…some change and some change it back. Wikipedia, the community-edited online encyclopedia, has blossomed. ... | |
9/13[edit] |
Web 2.0 sites enjoy traffic explosion | Crave - London,UK | ... The Wikipedia network, which includes an online encyclopaedia and dictionary written and edited entirely by users, has jumped from being the 78th most visited ... | |
9/13[edit] |
User generated content becomes a hit in UK | E-consultancy - London,UK | The firm found Wikipedia to be the top UGC property, and the sixteenth most popular site overall with 6.5m visitors in July 2006, up 253% from a year earlier. ... | |
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9/11[edit] |
The Wilsons, and Wikipedia, on Instant Messaging | ZDNet - USA | A VC teased me today. Who could possibly resist the TechCrunch worthy headline “How AOL Ruined Email”? I eagerly clicked over ... | |
9/12[edit] |
On the Net: Wikia Gathers the Gatherers | San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA | By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer. You might be familiar with Wikipedia, but how about Wookieepedia? ... There's even a Wikipedia spoof, Uncyclopedia. ... | |
9/14[edit] |
Wikia.com a gathering | Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach, CA, USA | By Jake Coyle, Associated Press. YOU MIGHT BE familiar with Wikipedia, but how about Wookieepedia? From Wookiees to the Muppets, there's ... | |
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9/11[edit] |
Wikipedia rejects Chinese censorship | PC Pro - London,UK | The founder of Wikipedia has refused to bow the Chinese government and censor entries on the world's biggest online encyclopaedia. ... | |
9/12[edit] |
Wikipedia tells China's censors to bog off | Inquirer - Harrow, Middlesex, UK | THE FOUNDER of Wikipedia has told the Chinese government to go forth and multiply over the issue of politically sensitive entries. | |
9/13[edit] |
Wikipedia Founder Baffled by China Ban | Red Herring - CA,USA | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has got a problem. ... Q: What do people inside China think of Wikipedia’s user-driven editing process? ... | |