Posts Tagged with ‘wikipedia’

Tuesday marked the official launch of Citizendium, a new competitor to Wikipedia in the user-created online encyclopedia space. Founded by Larry Sanger, formerly of Wikipedia, Citizendium promises to be the Emily Post version of Wikipedia. All contributors have to give their real names, submit a short bio, and provide a valid email address (and free services are discouraged as the email address).
If you've been following the saga of Wikipedia, you'll know that the reliability of the content was called into [...]

I caught a WiredNews story by Kim Zetter about some recent resignations at Wikimedia, the 501(c)3 non-profit foundation that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects. According to the article two top foundation employees resigned citing disagreements with the governing board of the foundation.
Danny Wool has been the grants coordinator at the foundation since 2005 and has been accepted widely as the number two man at Wikimedia. Wool talked of his resignation in a note to the foundation list. This note was followed [...]

March 11, 2007 - Profy got a rare opportunity today to talk with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, Wikimedia (non-profit foundation), Co-Founder of Wikia Inc., and more recently innovator of Wikia-Search which we have covered on other occasions.
I caught up with Mr. Wales in Japan, where he is interviewing applicants for a position on the Wikia staff as Japan Community Manager. We talked briefly about some topics of interest to everyone and about a few that were either suggested by Profy, [...]

A recent BBC interview with University of East Anglia comparative politics and international relations professor Dr. Nicola Pratt reveals a new course strategy using Wikipedia as its base. Dr. Pratt has structured a graduate-level course in Middle Eastern studies around the collaborative online encyclopedia, requiring her students to edit eight articles on the site in their subject area, as well as submit an article of their own. Pratt explains her incorporation of Wikipedia :
"They're assessed on their ability [...]

Last week, a prominent Wikipedia editor was outed by the New Yorker magazine as a fraud. The editor, using the handle Essjay, claimed to be a professor of religious studies at a private college, and said he taught both graduate and undergraduate classes in theology. As an editor, he had the ability to settle disputes between contributors, remove vandalism on the site, and edit submitted articles in his subject area. And while he claimed to have a PhD and a [...]

Is Wikipedia a little too liberal, a tad too ungodly for you? Try Conservapedia on for size.
Mocked by folks Left and Right (but mostly Left), the Wiki-based destination is marketed as an encyclopedia God would be proud of. It is devoid of inaccuracies. There’s no bias there. (Guess where we’ve gone satirical in the last few lines.) And you vandals need not enter, because there’s really no place for your lot. The project’s leader, Andrew Schlafly, a conservative (no way) [...]

Web 2.0 is an action platform and should direct technology towards our most pressing needs! There's serious, and then there is SERIOUS!
My job here at Profy is to report on significant (and sometimes insignificant) Web 2.0 technology. Our goal - my goal, is to be honest, fair and impartial about the subjects we write about so that you guys will get an honest “heads up” on happenings in our little world. Sometimes we all need to focus our resources [...]

What Fantastic Claims Were Uttered As Rome Began Smoldering?
Reuters - Amsterdam - January 26, 2007 - A consumer poll suggests Internet companies are becoming more important to people than traditional companies. Google retained its title as most influential brand and video sharing site. YouTube and Wikipedia were in the number 3 and 4 spots according to a survey by online branding magazine brandchannel.com.
Brandchannel's survey is controversial, but does ask 3,625 branding professionals and students which brands had the most in [...]

Search Wikia - Watch
On a non-news day, I thought it appropriate to check in on some of our recent entrants into the world of web 2.0 as promised. Wikiasari, which is no longer the name by the way, is working on a real language search engine to fill in the gaps left by Google.
The current site is named Search Wikia, and it is obvious on visiting the site that Jimmy Wales has the creative wheels turning. The look of [...]