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A Japanese bureaucrat has been reprimanded for shirking his duties to make hundreds of Wikipedia contributions about toy robots, officials said Friday.
Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.
A Dutch royal couple acknowledges altering a Wikipedia entry about a 2003 scandal that forced the prince to renounce his claim to the throne.
What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner reveals answers to such questions.
Wikipedia's advocates like to tout its dynamic nature: Volunteers can quickly respond to new developments and errors in the collaborative online encyclopedia by adding or changing entries themselves.
In the NBC series "The Office," the boss Michael Scott turned to Wikipedia for tips on fending off an employee's request for a pay raise. Viewers quickly flocked to the online encyclopedia and added their take to its entry on negotiations.
The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim doesn't seem particularly controversial — Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder.
Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.
Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers.
When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.
Software that generates a list of reading material tailored to a person's individual interests has been developed by a PhD student in the US.
A critic of an online encyclopedia written and edited by its users has identified dozens of biographical articles that appear to contain passages lifted from other sites, prompting its administrators to delete several pending a review.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that can be altered by anyone with a computer, has proved remarkably useful for pulling political dirty tricks.
Recent data compiled by one of Wikipedia's larger contributors seems to indicate that after a long history of rapid growth, interest in contributing to the effort seems to be waning. Unfortunately, a truer idea of how Wikipedia is doing is not possible because the statistics pag …
I have just bumped onto this article about a new genetically modified rice whose water consumption is 20% less than that of conventional varieties. The rice has been developed by scientists from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India.
relations | tobacco Philip Morris (PM) has long been a past master at funding front groups and organizing scientists to deny the obvious. Now it is apparent that someone at PM tried puffing the entry in Wikipedia on the Marlboro cigarette.
Japan's Agriculture Ministry reprimanded six bureaucrats after an internal probe found they spent work hours contributing to Wikipedia on topics unrelated to farm issues — including 260 entries about cartoon robots.
Apple has significantly updated Dictionary 2.0 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, expanding it from a simple word lookup into a complete multilingual reference tool. Here's a look at what's new in Dictionary.
Six officials working for Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) were the subject of national media attention on Thursday when they were caught updating Wikipedia articles about the anime series Gundam on company time.
The veteran BBC TV composer and arranger Ronnie Hazlehurst died on Monday night.
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Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales, denies that the new package indented to improve the site's reliability, will jeopardise the users ability to edit text, and go against its original premises of having information that could be edited by people around the world.
IN the 12th century A.D., when the Arabic treatise "On the Hindu Art of Reckoning" was translated into Latin, the modern decimal system was bestowed on the Western world — an advance that can best be appreciated by trying to do long division with Roman numerals.
Over the past few years, a series of measures aimed at reducing the threat of vandalism and boosting public confidence in Wikipedia have been developed.
It might be visited by 7 per cent of internet users every day, and have helped to win many a pub quiz, but Wikipedia is still hampered by its inability to guarantee that information appearing on the website is true.
Would you believe it, I was researching yesterday and I came a cross a massive war in cyberspace, its cruel unjust and a down right pain in the arse. I expect the casualty rate is well past the Million point, its a very dirty war being fought by......
On Sen. John McCain's Wikipedia entry, the argument has been over whether he is a conservative, moderate or liberal Republican. A heated exchange on former senator John Edwards's page has centered on deleting any reference to his $400 haircuts.
We recently wrote that several drug companies have been caught deleting important information from Wikipedia, in order to downplay the risk of their drugs.
Without a doubt, Wikipedia is one of the most useful and amazing sources of information on the internet—but chances are you aren't using it to its full potential.
English Wikipedia reaches 2 million article mark. It took just 6 months and 9 days for the last one million articles. (It reached a million articles on March 1, 2006.)
A project has been set up with the aim of usurping Wikipedia as the web's leading reference work.
If Wikipedia's users get to determine the next president, it seems like we'll be seeing Ron Paul in the White House; according to an analysis of four different factors, the Republican candidate is popular in just about every way.
Users of Google registered IP addresses contributed to Wikipedia entries including "Amateur Pornography", the "List of male performers in gay porn films" and "Mutual Masturbation" according to data pulled from Wikiscanner.
There are a lot of bad things said about Wikipedia, the ninth most-visited destination on the internet. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit, critics argue, is one that is vulnerable to endless mistakes.
First Electronic Arts committed Wikipedia fraud. Now Sony is up to bat. And this time the company is question wasn't editing their own entry with false information, they edited a competitor's.
Wikipedia is by far the Internet's biggest phenomena
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