Topic: Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

Media: Wikipedia, Plagiarism, and Procrastination

BY Jason Del Rey
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Nov 20, 2007 at 12:10 PM

Shortcut-seeking high school and college students are not alone. Someone else plagiarized a passage from Wikipedia. The lifted material didn't appear in a midterm essay, though. Instead, according to an article in yesterday's New ...READ»

WORK/LIFE | 4 comments

Work/Life: Wikipedia/Life Balance

BY Tom Stern
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Sep 7, 2007 at 7:06 AM

Earlier this week, I stumbled upon a story about the Dutch royal couple that edited their own Wikipedia entry to doctor some information about a detail in the past of the princess. Now, I have my complaints about our ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2005 | Comment

Wikimaniacs or Wikirealists?

Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 3:53 PM

Wiki maniacs were in full attendance at Wikimania last week. Not just the participants in the Wikipedia community, but users and developers of open source wiki. Seventy of 400 attendees were members of the press, which served to ...READ»

IDEAS | Comment

Free Market Philosophy

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Oct 27, 2004 at 10:07 AM

Wikipedia's Philosophy of Business section takes a long look at the very foundation of business formation and operation, business's purpose and role in society, and its moral obligations. Making a sharp disction between the ...READ»

CULTURE | Comment

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Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Nov 23, 2004 at 1:24 PM

If you're still at your desk but you've already "checked out" for Thanksgiving, check out the Wiki Game. As a born researcher and chronic time-waster I can't help but admire this exercise. Think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, played ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2005 | 1 comment

New Rules for Wikipedia?

Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 10:35 AM

CNET reported on Friday that Wikipedia, the massive user-collaborated online encyclopedia, is planning on imposing stricter editorial rules and "freezing" pages that contain stable, undisputed content. This move stems from founder ...READ»

FREE INFORMATION | 4 comments

Wikipedia and 'The New York Times' Suppress Facts to Save Kidnapped Journo

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 9:17 AM

Last week, journalist David Rohde escaped after a seven-month kidnap by the Taliban. It's fabulous news, and it's been partly attributed to the fact that The New York Times suppressed it in the first place. But today we learn that ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 10 comments

An Open Wound for an Open-Source Reference

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 12:41 PM

Look up Wikipedia on Wikipedia and you learn that the free online encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to has grown to more than 2.5 million articles and over 100 active editions in different languages. Impressive, but is it true? ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 12 comments

Wikipedia, Vol. 2: Encyclopedia Smackdown

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Dec 15, 2005 at 4:12 PM

Much like a Wikipedia entry, our discussion of the online encyclopedia is nothing if not dynamic. In fact, it's already time for an update. As FC Now reader Shel Holtz points out, the science journal Nature posted an article ...READ»

WIKIPEDIA | 1 comment

Is Wikipedia in Decline? Scientists Search for Answers in Wikipedia's Numbers

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM

Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites has come to an end, new research shows. But perhaps even more alarming to eleventh-hour term paper writers and lazy journalists everywhere, the user generated ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2006 | Comment

How You Can Investigate Congressional Malpractice

Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 4:10 PM

The folks at the Sunlight Foundation are pioneering new ways for ordinary people to figure out bad politics, first Congresspedia, like Wikipedia for Congress. Today, they announce a project where bloggers and good governemnt types ...READ»

ASSOCIATIONS | Comment

Battling Crime One Leak at a Time?

BY Kare Anderson
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM

From tax evasion and money laundering to what’s happening at Guantanamo, whistleblowers’ “secret” documents can be posted and seen by anyone with access to the Internet, thanks to Wikileaks. Even a federal judge’s order here ...READ»

IDEAS | 5 comments

Is Open Source Mania Already Dead?

BY Danielle Sacks
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Nov 3, 2006 at 3:01 PM

A few weeks ago Larry Sanger, the co-mastermind behind Wikipedia, announced he's taking on the grassroots encyclopedia with his own "fork" (a term used by hackers when two groups working on open-source software move in opposing ...READ»

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY | Comment

Sustainable Architecture?

BY Suzanne O'Leary
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM

Wikipedia has a great summary of what sustainable design really is. The statement "Sustainable architects design with sustainable living in mind" is very true, and very important! It brings attention to the fact that if ...READ»

SELFMAN | 5 comments

Self-Healing Web Apps Make Scaling Easier

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Sep 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM

The SELFMAN project, an initiative among seven European universities, seeks to build Internet applications that manage, tune, and fix themselves. And they're not too far down the road. When these apps do arrive, they'll make ...READ»

CHANGE MANAGEMENT | Comment

Changing the Definition of Change Management

BY Melissa Dutmers
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 11:09 AM

The current definitions of change management are hopelessly ’soft’ and poorly defined. READ»

WIKIPEDIA EDITS | 1 comment

Wikipedia Grows Up--Limits Edits to Biographies

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 25, 2009 at 8:46 AM

Wikipedia's governing Wikimedia Foundation just made an interesting announcement: For the first time some editorial control will be exerted over articles on living people. Compared to its carefree youthful days, is Wikipedia growing ...READ»

PORTABLE WIKIPEDIA | 2 comments

Wikipedia Goes All Douglas Adams With Portable E-Reader

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 6:35 AM

Wikipedia's handheld $99 Wikireader takes the encyclopedia mobile, in a sweetly Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy kind of way.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | 15 comments

Why Is This Man Smiling?

BY Alan Deutschman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:19 AM

Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, slayer of Britannica, has a new giant in his sights: Google. And he thinks he has got a better way to search. Is he delusional--or inspired?READ»

INFO GRAPHIC | 3 comments

Infographic of the Day: Ask Ken, a Visual Browser for Wikipedia

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM

The hyperlink has served us well in the last 15 years or so. But I'll bet you that 15 years from now, the hyperlink will be as passé as a dial-up modem: As information proliferates, we'll need better visual organization of that ...READ»

ADS | 5 comments

Is Your Brand Real? (Wikipedia or Bust...)

BY aaron wall
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 9:27 PM

Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia Wikipedia is often compared to encyclopedias while people debate which is better, more reliable, and more accurate. In response to one such study by the sience journal Nature, Britannica refuted the ...READ»

AUGMENTED REALITY | 1 comment

Did Augmented Reality Just Get the Real World Database It Needs to Thrive?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 9:48 AM

Augmented Reality may well be the killer app for GPS and compass-empowered smartphones, but the tech has a significant drawback--it requires accurate points of interest to make it useful. A new start-up, L.A.-based unit called ...READ»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING | 8 comments

The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:19 AM

Wikipedia Wikipedia, for its part, gets around one-third of its traffic from referrals from Google's search engine. Google Google gets a lot of traffic from people interested in Wikipedia. Google's top searches for ...READ»

CHANGE MANAGEMENT | Comment

The New, New Manager: What Geeks Can Teach Us About Getting Stuff Done

BY Jory Des Jardins
Relevancy Score: 98
Thu Mar 29, 2007 at 7:55 PM

Back in the days of yore (2001), when nearly all of my new media peers were losing their jobs, my company saw an opportunity to develop content around what we all sensed was a seismic shift in our way of thinking. The events of 9/11 ...READ»

BLOOK | Comment

First There Were Books, Then Blogs, and Now There's Blooks

BY Rachel King
Relevancy Score: 91
Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 3:37 PM

Just when one Internet phenomenon achieves enough hype, something new is right around the corner. Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, it goes on. Now there's the Blook. Former Fortune 500 CEO Paul Mongerson recently launched OurBlook.com, a ...READ»

Topic: Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

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