You've heard of Wikipedia. But are wikis more than just encyclopedias? A wiki-written article answers the question with a bold Yes. By Ryan Singel. Plus: Wonderful Wiki Sidebar 

holy_calamity writes Natual Language Programming researchers have developed a tool called Zeitgeist that can discover the meaning of new words for itself using Wikipedia. It looks for entries for words not in the WordNet database and works out their mean 

Nico ? La ! writes Aaron Swartz questions Jimbo Wales' (Wikimedia's founder) belief and evangelized truth that only around 500 people are the most important contributors to Wikipedia. Whereas the truth is that they probably are the people who do the most 

New Web Sites Seeking Profit in Wiki Model Wikipedia has inspired a slue of new user generated 

Earlier today Slashdot took a look at a change being implemented on the German version of Wikipedia which raised quite a few eyebrows. Many of the implications, however, led the readers to believe things that just are not necessarily true. Wikipedia found 

jonney02 writes The BBC NEWSis running a story about how Wikipedia plans to take back control due to the recent onslaught of malformed articles. It's always been a scary balance between allowing total anonymous participation in a web forum, and prevent 

?I was doing a bit of light reading over on Wikipedia about GIMP. src= /Themes/AlmostGlass/images/ico 

Yesterday, Microsoft inadvertantly released the pricing of its upcoming OS called Vista on their Canadian website. The prices were picked up by the NeoWin blog and are also neatly layed out at Wikipedia. Vista Home Premium will retail for $239, with upgrades available for $159. Additional licenses will be available for discounts as well. Vista Home Premium edition has evolved from XP Professional, Media Center, and Tablet product lines, and probably is also the edition which can most closely be compared to Mac OS X. Many comparisons have been made between Vista and Mac OS X, and with many expecting Apple to continue its pricing tradition of $129 for Leopard (Mac OS 10.5), further comparisons can be made on price as well. All prices in USD Update: Amazon has Vista available for Pre-order at the above prices. 

The collective knowledge of humankind should include everything we think we know about sex -- the subject is endlessly fascinating. In Sex Drive Daily. 

vhfer writes Wikipedia Warfare has become the latest tool in the battle between rival lake transport systems. The Lake Express Ferry, which links Milwaukee and Michigan, bypasses Chicago traffic. The competing SS Badger runs from Manitowoc, an hour North 

A reader writes to mention an International Herald Tribune article discussing the troubles an African-language Wikipedia faces in getting underway. While there is a lot of interest, the primary obstacle is that of exposure: the majority of people on the c 

As the Wikipedia considers changing its policy on who can edit entries, Bill Thompson wonders if this makes it a different thing. 

Tunneling protocol - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling_protocol Viz také předchozí článek autora - SSH tricks. 

When I was much younger, I used to pepper my dad with constant questions about how things worked or who invented what. My dad would always respond with the same thing: go look it up . Sitting in our family room was a bright, shiny set of Ency 

Jimmy Wales changes the rules at Wikipedia...Why hard-drive technology is in for a big change...Here comes the biodegradable fork. 

Blog: In a story about a new feature being tested for the German version of Wikipedia that's designed to protect articles from being... 

Bloggers hate automated comment spammers. One way to foil these vermin is a system called CAPTCHA, which is described in Wikipedia as an acronym for 'completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart' -- in other words, a challe 

An experiment planned for the country's version of the online encyclopedia could be a blueprint for improved accuracy. 

Blog: If we were given to conspiracy theories, we might speculate that someone was out to take down the big guns of Web 2.0. In the... 

V sobotu bylo napadeno heslo vandalismus v populární internetové encyklopedii Wikipedia. 

Blog: Wikipedia suffered a shutdown for about 2-1/2 hours Friday, one of the longest outages in the online encyclopedia's history. According... 

Many people are confused by the massive number of information security (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security) certifications available today. Some people already have one or more and are looking to expand, while others are just getting starte 

http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_k%C3%B3dQIP Spusťte (1 volací zař., 2 zkuš.pásku, 3 synchron. pásku, 4 dopr. pásku)Q kód - smluvené třípísmenné mezinárodně platné zkratky používané při radioprovozu. Jejich cílem je zrychlit komunikaci a vyjádřit ve... 

nuke-alwin writes To mark the web's 15th anniversary, The Guardian is reporting on 15 websites that changed the world. Everything from commercial sites like eBay and Amazon to social collaboratives like Wikipedia and Slashdot made the list. From the art 

Baldrson writes If you think you can compress a 100M sample of Wikipedia better than paq8f, then you might want to try winning win some of a (at present) 50,000 Euro purse. Marcus Hutter has announced the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Kn 

User-contributed info on site shouldn't be the sole basis of a term paper, CNET intern says. 

...pro Wikipedia se zde testují možnosti efektivní distribuce velkých objemů dat k co nejširšímu okruhu uživatelů s použitím několikastupňové replikace. Google v rámci PlanetLab realizuje otevřený projekt, který vyhodnocuje dostupnost jeho serverů z různý 

(InfoWorld) - It's a wiki, wiki world, whether you know it yet, or not. Such was the vibe at Wikimania 2006, the second-annual conference on all things Wikipedia -- the online, free (and sometimes cont 

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has made an appeal to the site s users to start concentrating on quality, not quantity. Wikipedia is used by millions each day and the free online encyclopedia ... 

This past weekend, Wikipedia held its second annual Wikimania Conference from Friday to Sunday in, of all places, the law buildings of one of the most exclusive institutions of higher learning in the world, Harvard University. 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 6 - As hard-core Wikipedia contributors gathered here during the weekend to consider the next phase of the online encyclopedia?s life cycle, Jimmy Wales, the site?s founder, said ... 

The founder of Wikipedia is urging contributors to the free Internet encyclopedia to put more emphasis on quality instead of quantity. 

People like me (and I m still a relative newbie, having joined the chorus only in the last ten years) have extolled the virtues of decentralized information management for some time. 

Čínské ministerstvo zdravotnictví dnes potvrdilo, že voják, který v roce 2003 zemřel na vysoké horečky a zápal plic, byl nakažen ptačí chřípkou H5N1. To je nejstarší případ nákazy ptačí chřipkou u člověka na čínské pevnině i na světě. Nedávno čínští odborníci uvedli, že po prozkoumání tělesných pozůstatků dvacetičtyřleteého vojáka dospěli k závěru, že byl nakažen virem ptačí chřípky. Byl hospitalizován v listopadu 2003 v Pekingu s pneumonií. Jeho zdravotní stav se pak rychle zhoršoval a zemřel bez určení diagnozy. Napsal to dnes Čínský rozhlas na svých internetovém serveru na základě odborné zprávy čínských lékařů ze státní Laboratoře pathogenů a biologické bezpečnosti, pekingského Institutu genomiky, 309. vojenské nemocnice a pekingského Institutu microbiologie and epidemiologie v New England Journal of Medicine. Výsledky potvrdilo nezávislé vyšetření ve spolupráci s WHO. podrobnosti CRI ZDE 

(InfoWorld) - With close to 1.3 million English-language articles, is there any limit to the number of entries online free encyclopedia Wikipedia will offer? Jimmy Wales, the project's founder, believe 

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has confirmed it plans to include elements taken from the free Wikipedia online encyclopedia as a reference resource on its future $100 computers.

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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has made an appeal to the site s users to start concentrating on quality, not quantity. According to the Associated Press: With more than 1.2 million articles in English alone ... 

I've noticed that when I am looking for information, rather than using a search engine, I am using Wikipedia. This is made easier using IE7 and the pluggable Search Providers. Most of the time, I find what I am looking for - a nicely human filtere 

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS -- Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia needs to improve the quality of its content in the coming year, Jimmy Wales, the founder of the project, said Friday. 

Since a recent digg article and its underlying Wikipedia entry seems a little confused about index.dat, I'd like to give some more detail about what it is and what we have changed with it in IE7/Vista's version of WinInet. As Jeffdav explained a while bac 

The founder of Wikipedia on Friday urged contributors to the free Internet encyclopedia to put more emphasis on quality instead of quantity. 

(InfoWorld) - The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project Friday confirmed plans to include elements of the Wikipedia free online encyclopedia as the first element in its content repository.

 

The sheer number of entries are impressive indeed, but the quality is often lacking. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says improving the quality of existing entries should be the priority now. 

Jimmy Wales urges Wikipedians to focus on quality, announces One Laptop per Child project will include Wikipedia on machines. 

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales urges Wikipedians to focus on quality over quantity of encyclopedia entries. 

Blog: In his keynote at the second annual Wikimania conference, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said while strong on scientific topics,... 

Wikipedia - the online encyclopedia - allows anyone to contribute to its database. From today that liberal policy could change, reports Toby Clements. 

Jimmy Wales urges Wikipedians to focus on quality, announces One Laptop per Child project will include Wikipedia on machines. 

(InfoWorld) - Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia needs to improve the quality of its content in the coming year, Jimmy Wales, 

The founder of Wikipedia on Friday urged contributors to the free Internet encyclopedia to put more emphasis on quality instead of quantity. 

Joystiq mentions that the classic Konami title, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night will appear on XBLA in September (I'm not sure this date is correct)! Wikipedia even has listed the XBLA as a platform for this on their Wiki article! This is arguabl 

Blog: In the wake of Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert waxing philosophical about Wikipedia, making changes to entries on the air... 

Vicissidude writes The champion of 'truthiness' couldn't resist making fun of a website where facts, it seems, are endlessly malleable. But after making fun of Wikipedia on Monday night's Colbert Report, Colbert learned some hard truths about Wikipedia 

Nachdem das Wissenschaftsmagazin Nature ja die Qualität von Wikipedia auf einem Level mit der Encyclopaedia Britannica sieht, habe ich gerade mal den Eintrag zum .NET Framework in der englischen Version mit dem Eintrag der deutschen Version verglichen. 

Television satirist Stephen Colbert's Wikipedia prank exposes crowdsourcing's inherent potential for un-truthiness. Plus: Amazing digital panoramas. In Monkey Bites. 

Blog: Late-night TV personality Stephen Colbert claims he has no qualms with Wikipedia. I love Wikipedia, he said during the July... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Valejohttp://www.net-cafe.hu/eclick.php?id=189http://www.crescentblues.com/4_4issue/int_boris_julie.shtml 

The Apache Tomcat development team has released version 1.2.18 of

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Remember earlier this month when I was talking about the Update to the mitigation tools for IDN security problems? Well, it turns out that Wikipedia has an external link to the tools in its Internationalizaed Domain Names article. Unfortunately, they ar 

My last post produced a real onslaught of mail. It turns out that when it comes to community solutions in general and to wikipedia in paticular, people have no shortage of opinions. Curiously enough, it is the people who identified themselves as wikipedia 

Tak jsem hledala v encyklopedii Wikipedia odborné vysvětlení termínu inteligence a narazila jsem. Vrozená inteligence tam není - jen sociální nebo umělá. Sociální se prý dá naučit, znamená, že kladně působíte na svoje okolí. Umělá ta je 

I had an interesting conversation this morning with a colleague about community approaches to large-scale projects. We were mainly thinking about software, and in particular, the pieces of software that are most susceptible to a modular approach usin 

Na anglické verzi otevřené internetové encyklopedie Wikipedia se objevil hodnotný a vyčerpávající článek Features new to Windows Vi... 

Mé první haiku v češtině o jedné z mých vášní. Haiku je minimalistická, původem japonská básnická forma s přesně definovanými pravidly. Toto je typ čoku 5-7-5 z tanrengy - krátká forma haiku. Více viz na www.wikipedia.org 

Wikis are popular but they aren t exactly sexy in the way blogs are. At first glance, Wikipedia looks like a regular dictionary rather than the pop culture bible it has become and most corporate wikis tend to look like a collection of grocery lists. 

Rick Kleffel writes to tell us that NPR is featuring a piece with both Vernor Vinge and Cory Doctorow looking at the possibility of the technological singularity in the near future. Wikipedia defines a technological singularity as a hypothetical event 

Tohle jsem překládala z angličtiny :) na www.wikipedia.org takže snad to bude dávat smysl:) Emily Podivná je drobná 13ti-letá holka s bledou pletí. Má uhlově černé vlasy, černé šaty a černé punčochy zvírazněné velkými bílými botami od Mary Jane. Má s... 

Check out Frank's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/frankarr/archive/2006/07/20/672281.aspx He's doing a Norty !! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton 

Wikipédia vyhráva rýchlosťou a rozsahom, silnou stránkou Britannicy je presnosť 

gihan_ripper writes Recently released open movie Elephants Dream found itself in hot water with Catalonians after accidentally using an offensive word instead of 'Catalá' in the subtitle menu. The cause? Designer Matt Ebb had used Wikipedia to look 

Slashback tonight brings some clarifications and updates to previous Slashdot stories including: Reuters offers correction to Wikipedia slam, Lord of the Rings stage show ends, duct tape holds NASA together again, UK ISP rejects BPI request, Maine renews 

The featured article on the main page of Wikipedia's English site today is Microsoft. After following a few links, I learned someone has already authored articles for Visual Studio Team System and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. 

PetManimal writes Frank Ahrens of The Washington Post looks at how Wikipedia stumbles when entries for controversial people are altered by partisan observers. Case in point: Enron's Kenneth Lay, who died of natural causes last week, shortly after being s 

What should we make of the death of former Enron chairman, Ken Lay? Was it divine justice or an easy path out? Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, prematurely stated that Lay died of an ?of an apparent suicide ... 

Alongside the introduction of 'Charts', ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple will be introducing a number of new features into the next version of Pages. Pages is Apple's word processing application which comes bundled in iWork. Pages 3 is expected to debut in January 2007 with the release of iWork '07. New features include two new modes called Word Processing and Layout to better cater to different users needs. A number of convenient features catered to writers and typists will also be wrapped into Pages 3, including a thesaurus and integration with Spotlight, Wikipedia, and Google. Apple is also said to be looking to build a robust grammar checking engine for Pages that could find its way into other Apple and Cocoa applications. 

Na úvod - co je vlastně logaritmus? Je to opak umocnění; matematická operace, zjišťující na kolikátou se něco mocnilo. To jest - třetí mocnina dvou je 8 a pak nazpátek: logaritmus osmi při základu 2 = 3. ([url=]http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logaritmus]Wiki 

driehle writes to tell us that he recently had a chance to interview Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko. All three are leading Wikipedia practitioners in the English, German, and Japanese Wikipedias and related projects. The interview focuses 

Perhaps you have heard of the Fallacy of quoting out of context, where support for an argument is produced by incompletely quoting a source -- where the incompleteness alters or changes the meaning. (for more info, see the Wikipedia article about the subj 

(InfoWorld) - HThe founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it's time for politics to become more intelligent.

6.7.2006  

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Hopes Campaigns Wikia will help politics start to be about substance and thought, rather than style and image.  

[JURIST] Police arrested two Italian intelligence officers Wednesday, including a senior official, in connection with the alleged extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia profile], also known ... 

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone with an Internet connection can edit, is great for an interesting read. And, for the most part, it s pretty decent when it comes to doing research. 

Billosaur writes Jimmy Wales, self-described creator of the Wikipedia, is apparently trying to bring the functionality offered by the Internet encyclopedia to a new realm: politics and political campaigns. He is starting a new website, the Campaigns Wiki 

The anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia jumps all over the place in its Lay bio, after news of the former Enron CEO's death. 2:25 PM on July 5 

The death of former Enron Corp. chief Ken Lay on Wednesday underscored the challenges facing online encyclopedia Wikipedia (http://www. 

?The NOBEL Prize is somewhat limited in the professions that can qualify.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize 

RuneScapeFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchRuneScapeDeveloper(s)JagexPublisher(s)JagexDesigner(s)JagexEngineJavaRelease date(s)RuneScape Classic - 4 January 2001RuneScape - 29 March 2004Genre(s)MMORPGMode(s)MultiplayerPl... 

[JURIST] Canada authorities confirmed Friday that they had asked Germany to detain Iranian prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi [Wikipedia backgrounder] if he passed through German territory after attending the inaugural meeting of the UN Human Rights Council ... 

The SunBelt security blog has accused Microsoft of predatroy pricing which it defines from Wikipedia: the practice of a dominant firm selling a product at a loss in order to drive some or all competitors out of the market, or create a barrier to entry ... 

Blog: The next time a Klingon shouts that your mother has a smooth forehead, you will know how to insult him back, thanks to a Wikipedia... 

Blog: Wikipedia has often been cited as a testament to the power of online social networking. It may be more accurate, however, to call... 

Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Unless you want to edit the entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China or Christina Aguilera. 

A supposed tightening of editorial control at Wikipedia has the pundits all saying I told you so but in reality editing responsibility remains very much with the user community. 

prostoalex writes New York Times Technology section this weekend is running an extensive article on Wikipedia and recent changes to the editorial policy. Due to high level of partisan involvement some political topics like George Bush, Tony Blair and Opu 

Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Unless you want to edit the entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China or Christina Aguilera.