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    May 2012 Not much has changed in 96 years - 1916 Rua Kenana - 2012 Tame Iti Rua Kenana 1916 (from Wikipedia) “Rua was charged with treason, and while he was found not guilty by the jury, Judge Frederick Chapman did find him guilty of resisting arrest... Full Article at Scoop - New Zealand News

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    Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia speaks during a seminar on youth marketing in Africa in Lagos, Nigeria,Tuesday, March. 27, 2012. The man who helped found Wikipedia says the end of the printing of the Encyclopaedia Britannica signals a new...

    Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia speaks during a seminar on youth marketing in Africa in Lagos, Nigeria,Tuesday, March. 27, 2012. The man who helped found Wikipedia says the end of the printing of the Encyclopaedia Britannica signals a new... View Photo »

  4. The Roots and Execution of Wikipedia’s Anti-SOPA Blackout
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    Even before the stories ran, USA Today Pentagon reporter Tom Vanden Brook noticed that someone registered the site tomvandenbrook.com. Twitter and Facebook accounts were also registered in his name, and a Wikipedia entry and discussion group postings... Full Article at Military Times

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    The proposal caused dismay among major Internet companies who feared the law would stifle free speech and innovation. The bill was abandoned four months ago after fierce high-tech opposition that included a one-day blackout of popular websites such as... Full Article at WSB-TV Atlanta

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    COMMERCIAL IMAGE - In this photograph taken by AP Images for Hult International Business School, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at Hult International Business School's Executive Speaker Series in San Francisco, CA on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.

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  9. In high school, I spent many hours reading encyclopedias and from the knowledge gained, I found hope of making something out of my life ... It’s my hope that students who get access to offline Wikipedia will find hope of a better future for themselves and their families as well from the knowledge they g...
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  2. COMMERCIAL IMAGE - In this photograph taken by AP Images for Hult International Business School, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at Hult International Business School's Executive Speaker Series in San Francisco, CA on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
  3. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia gestures during an interview with the Associated Press at the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Wales is fighting to stop a recent US plan to tighten anti-piracy laws and his vision for the open-source online encyclopedia.
  4. MUNICH, GERMANY - JANUARY 24: Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia speaks during the Digital Life Design conference (DLD) at HVB Forum on January 24, 2012 in Munich, Germany. ence and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and investors for crossover conversation...
  5. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 19: Markham Erickson, partner at Holch & Erickson LLP and executive director at NetCoalition, speaks during a panel discussion about the Protection IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) at the U.S. Capitol January 19, 2012 in Washington, DC. ...
  6. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 19: (L-R) Consumer Electronics Association Vice President of Government Affairs Michael Petricone, the Future of Music Coalition Deputy Director Casey Rae-Hunter and ServInt COO Christian Dawson use their iPads during a panel discussion organized by...
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Wikipedia (pronunciation ) is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest,... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. The Roots and Execution of Wikipedia’s Anti-SOPA Blackout
    SOURCE: In Menlo 2 weeks ago
  2. In high school, I spent many hours reading encyclopedias and from the knowledge gained, I found hope of making something out of my life ... It’s my hope that students who get access to offline Wikipedia will find hope of a better future for themselves and their families as well from the knowledge they g...
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 2 weeks ago
  3. Using a non-attorney website document assembly company to draft your estate documents is like letting Wikipedia treat your child’s broken leg. A responsible parent will actually take the child to a doctor or emergency room. The family’s estate planning requires actual professional attention and responsi...
    SOURCE: Babble 2 weeks ago
  4. We’re happy to say that we hit the mark sooner, on the second-to-last day of April to be exact. April clocked in at 2.089 billion, a year-over-year increase of 187%. The mobile site now attracts 12.6% of all page views for Wikipedia, more than twice of its 5.1% share in April 2011
    SOURCE: Softpedia 2 weeks ago
  5. One of the annual plan targets of the Wikimedia Foundation for 2011-2012 was to reach 2 billion monthly page views to the Wikipedia mobile site by June 2012
    SOURCE: Softpedia 2 weeks ago
  6. A lot of people try to put up a Wikipedia page, but it reads too promotional
    SOURCE: New York Daily News 2 weeks ago
  7. You have to cite things. Note things. Or these warnings start popping up ... There are all these guidelines and standards that Wikipedia stands by. I have no idea about that.
    SOURCE: New York Daily News 2 weeks ago
  8. He went after the search committee. He's put his resume together. It's not like somebody got confused in a Wikipedia entry or something.
    SOURCE: Inside Bay Area 3 weeks ago
  9. Clearly Obama has an official or unofficial Wikipedia team ready to cleanse postings that might not play well with voters still on the edge
    SOURCE: The New Media Journal 3 weeks ago
  10. TYLER is a massively distributed and decentralized Wikipedia-style P2P cipherspace structure impregnable to censorship. TYLER will improve where Wikileaks could not. In other words TYLER will be a Wikileaks on steroids.
    SOURCE: Softpedia 3 weeks ago
  11. This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia’s deletion policy.
    SOURCE: The Liberty Papers 3 weeks ago
  12. I'm a bit of a geek and often would go to Wikipedia but found there was a real lack of fashion information on there
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  13. Jimmy Wales can make sure that we maximise the collaborative potential, the added value from that portal ... Wikipedia has become a crucial part of our cultural landscape and having the advice from the person who created Wikipedia as we embark on this big project will be incredibly helpful.
    – David Willetts SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  14. Jimmy Wales can make sure that we maximise the collaborative potential, the added value from that portal ... Wikipedia has become a crucial part of our cultural landscape and having the advice from the person who created Wikipedia as we embark on this big project will be incredibly helpful.
    – David Willetts SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  15. Wikipedia is great for lending you gravitas, and it ranks highly in Google searches ... but you have to tread carefully as they have strict rules forbidding advertising.
    SOURCE: The Stage 3 weeks ago
  16. We wanted to understand whether our findings apply in very different domains and settings ... Wikipedia discussions take place online, in textual format, while the oral arguments in the Supreme Court are off-line and the interaction takes place through speech.
    SOURCE: Cornell Daily Sun 3 weeks ago
  17. Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program — MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to read and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link. However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very ...
    SOURCE: Beyond Search 3 weeks ago
  18. Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program — MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to read and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link. However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very ...
    SOURCE: Beyond Search 3 weeks ago
  19. I was nervous about writing for Wikipedia because I didn’t know what to expect and the process seemed a little daunting ... However, once we began, I quickly got used to Wikipedia and began to really enjoy the project.
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  20. My favorite part about writing for Wikipedia was knowing that the information being presented is valuable to someone, and in particular to parents
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  21. I was nervous about writing for Wikipedia because I didn’t know what to expect and the process seemed a little daunting ... However, once we began, I quickly got used to Wikipedia and began to really enjoy the project.
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  22. In the future, I would prefer a Wikipedia assignment over a usual term paper, since this will help many Wikipedia users get credible information on psychology related topics
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  23. The good thing about Wikipedia is that it teaches you to write in a more accessible manner and to leave out a lot of the unnecessary information that you include in a traditional paper to meet the page number requirement
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  24. The students learned a lot about evaluating sources. They learned how Wikipedia works (talk pages, standards etc.). They know now that they can figure out if an article is of reliable or not. It made the typical lesson about evaluating sources very relevant ... When writing, they need to constantly be a...
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  25. It behooves me to mention that Murphy was a real guy, and died not too long ago. From Wikipedia: --Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. (January 11, 1918 –...
    SOURCE: Freakonomics 3 weeks ago

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