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German Wikipedia will be printed

2008-04-24 15:10:21 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...Wikipedia later this year. Wha'? The idea is to use Wikipedia to capture the zeitgeist by selecting the most popular entries, Beate Varnhorn, the editor in charge of Bertelsmanns reference works, said in an interview by telephone. We think of it as an encyclopedic yearbook, Dr. Varnhorn said, leaving open the possibility of new editions if...
 
Tags: wikipedia, german wikipedia, german wikipedia entries, entries, popular entries, star wars edition, edition, content, german publisher bertelsmann
 
 
 
 
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Parents blame kids failing test scores on Wikipedia

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2008-06-22 21:20:51 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...Wikipedia is evil and mean and littered with inaccuracies. Shucks, and I thought Wikipedia was to be trusted 100 percent of the time Right, so the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, which just sounds like a fun group, hated on Wikipedia the other day because Scottish test scores are going down and theyve seemingly pegged Wikipedia as the...
 
Tags: wikipedia, blame wikipedia, dumb, dumb kids, time ago, schools provide textbooks, time, kids dumb, scottish test scores
 
 
 
 
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Knol - Google's attempt takes on Wikipedia

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2007-12-16 11:45:00 by Techno Dude in Techno Juice
...wikipedia and its called knol , I guess it must be causing an insatiable itch in google's butt that wikipedia doesn't show google ads and even more that they don't show ad at all They must be wondering they they send way too much traffic to a site that they can't profit off and its better off creating their own wikipedia, its now as if...
 
Tags: wikipedia, google, content wikipedia, google loves, google aims, google ads, resent google, content, wikipedia owns
 
 
 
 
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Get GPS/GSM Location Aware Wikipedia Articles on your Mobile Phone/iPhone

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2008-03-22 18:04:00 by Abdul Aziz in Tech[dot]Blog
...Wikipedia articles for geographic objects located physically near you based on your GPS, Wifi or GSM Cellular position. This is possible since many Wikipedia articles are now geotagged with the latitude and longitude of the object for which the content is written Wikinear Wikinear is a mobile/web service that shows you a list of the five...
 
Tags: wikipedia, articles, wikipedia articles, location, mobile, wikipedia pages, wikipedia feeds, geopedia returns, geopedia
 
 
 
 
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Viewing Wikipedia on your PDA

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2007-12-12 16:36:13 by palmdoc in The Palmdoc Chronicles
...Wikipedia has been increasing. Indeed even drug information and rare diseases are suprisingly covered in this vast online encyclopedia. Bertalan Meskó whois a maintainer of the Medicine Portal, Medicine WikiProject and Medical Genetics WikiProject, blogs about Wikipedia and Medicine and gives you a glimpse of the background of whats...
 
Tags: wikipedia, pda, view wikipedia, access wikipedia, pda version, version, medicine, medicine portal, view
 
 
 
 
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Powerset is the best iPhone-optimized Wikipedia

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2008-07-08 07:26:48 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Wikipedia. Period Unlike other Wikipedia services optimized for Apple's handset, not only can you search Wikipedia articles with Powerset and read them optimized for the iPhone/iPod Touch's scree, but you can also find the exact passage that pertains to the search query. Sure, iPhone has a large screen, but Wikipedia articles can be quite...
 
Tags: wikipedia, wikipedia services, wikipedia articles, iphone, powerset, iphoneipod touch, iphoneipod touch owners, articles, short demo video
 
 
 
 
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Employee fired for updating Wikipedia

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2008-06-23 08:30:03 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
...Wikipedia news simply because its interesting, sad, and startling. When Tim Russert collapsed last week and was eventually pronounced dead - an absolute tragedy - NBC news held on reporting the news until Russerts family could be notified. It was a noble act, all said However, a junior-level employee - read someone who knows how to use the...
 
Tags: nbc news held, news, wikipedia, wikipedia news simply, employee, nbc, news embargo, happy wikipedia, entry
 
 
 
 
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Wikipedia Outage?

2008-01-09 13:51:15 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
 
...Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/ ) and then the website died. Murphy's Law. I tried both over a T3 line and an EVDO connection and both pages timed out. I've never seen Wipipedia have an outage. Anyone else having problems Update: 1:56pm Looks like it was at least a 3 minute outage. Could have been longer, since I was googling a keyword...
 
Tags: wikipedia, outage, wikipedia page timed, minute outage, wiki page, wiki, evdo connection, pages timed, google
 
 
 
 
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Wikipedia documentary

2008-04-10 02:18:57 by HASH0x8af40f8 in gadget life blog
 
...Wikipedia. It has now been posted to YouTube and is worth watching when you have a spare 45 minutes. The film pits Andrew Keen, the disapproving author of The Culture of the Amateur, and Bob McHenry, former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica, against Wikipedia co-founders Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales, and Web 2.0 guru Tim OReilly,...
 
Tags: wikipedia, film pits andrew, film, conference, web conference, documentary, web, guru tim oreilly, jimmy wales
 
 
 
 
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DIY Portable Wikipedia

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2008-05-15 09:18:10 by Editor in Ubergizmo
...Wikipedia around with you without the need to remain connected at all times? This DIY portable Wikipedia unit is definitely something worth looking into This Instructable will set out how to construct what I believe to be a unique implementation of Wikipedia in an offline, portable device. It involves installing a stripped-down distribution...