Tag: Wikipedia
Finally we have the word directly from Jimmy Wales via the Wikia Search mailing list I am on. This comes after the IRC comment from yesterday. Looks like the alpha is live now and the public launch in approximately two weeks.
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Re: [Search-l] private pre-alpha invites available
Ping me if you want one.... we're launched. 
I'm going to be letting people in slowly over the next few days and we are aiming for a January 7th public launch. We want to run over the system with help from people to complain about what is...
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On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits. In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself.
Wikipedia Scanner offers users a searchable database that ties millions of...
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According Valleywag, Calacanis' next venture It's a cross between Wikipedia and Google. the new site (called Project X or Kokua) will create more digestible search results for popular queries such as the names of Hollywood stars, and tech products. The pages will be seeded, initially, with content gathered automatically from the web and other sources. But they will be open to contributions by readers.
In a rather extraordinary example of begging for money, Florence Devouard, Chairwoman of the Wikimedia foundation has told an audience at the Lift07 conference that Wikipedia has the financial resources to run its servers for another 3-4 months, and that without further funding Wikipedia “might disappear”.
“At this point, Wikipedia has the financial ressources to run its servers for about 3 to 4 months. If we do not find additional funding, it is not impossible that Wikipedia might disappear”. The warning by Florence Devouard,...
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The reason given for this is to battle spam links, like those of blackhat search engine optimizers. The change is already active, as you can see by checking outgoing links on Wikipedia’s articles. (In German Wikipedia, this change was already activated for a longer time.)
Such a change in Wikipedia, with is millions of pages – many of which rank excellent in Google and have a high PageRank – has a potentially strong impact on Google search results. Google relies on links to determine its result rankings, and thus huge amount of...
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"Web 2.0" was the No. 1 most-cited Wikipedia entry of the year, according to Nielsen BuzzMetrics. The oft-repeated buzz word handily beat out other tech terms such as "blog," "Meme" and two conjugations of "Podcast" for the coveted top spot.
"Amazon has nothing to do with this project. They are a valued investor in Wikia, but people are really speculating beyond the facts. This has nothing to do with A9, Amazon, etc."
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!
Mr Wales has begun working on a search engine that exploits the same user-based technology as his open-access encyclopaedia, which was launched in 2003.
The project has been dubbed Wikiasari — a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”.
Mr Wales told The Times that he was planning to develop a...
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Daniel Brandt found the examples of suspected plagiarism at
Wikipedia using a program he created to run a few sentences from about 12,000 articles against Google Inc.'s search engine. He removed matches in which another site appeared to be copying from Wikipedia, rather than the other way around, and examples in which material is in the public domain and was properly attributed.
Brandt ended with a list of 142 articles, which he brought to Wikipedia's attention.
The site's founder, Jimmy Wales, acknowledged that plagiarized passages do...
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Did you guys remember Jimbo's post from last week about the $100m dream:
Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you like to see purchased and released under a free license?
I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a position to make this happen.
http://web2.commongate....lion_Dream
The "wallet" is none other than Jason Calacanis, and "of course" is not his wallet but AOL's.
Calacanis now...
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