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  1. 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 beginning for reference materials online.
  2. 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.
  3. 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...
  4. The webpage of the encyclopedia website Wikipedia shows a stark black-and-white page with the message: "Imagine a world without free knowledge", at an office in Brussels, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of...
  5. LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: A laptop computer displays Wikipedia's front page showing a darkened logo on January 18, 2012 in London, England. The Wikipedia website has shut down it's English language service for 24 hours in protest over the US anti-piracy laws.
  6. This screen shot shows the blacked-out Wikipedia website, announcing a 24-hour protest against proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress, intended to protect intellectual property that critics say could facilitate censorship, referred to as the "Stop Online Piracy Act," or "SOPA," and the...
  7. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is viewed on January 17, 2012 in Washington, DC. Free online knowledge site Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours beginning at midnight eastern standard time in protest at draft anti-online piracy legislation before the US Congress, founder Jimmy Wales...
  8. A journalist reads information on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Jauary 17, 2012 in Washington, DC. Free online knowledge site Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours beginning at midnight eastern standard time in protest at draft anti-online piracy legislation before the US...
  9. Volunteers walk past a Wikipedia billboard, written in Hindi calligraphy, at the Wiki Conference India in Mumbai on November 18, 2011. The three-day national conference is being held in the Indian financial capital Mumbai as an an opportunity for existing and potential contributors to...

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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, fastest-growing, and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Wikipedia is a project that attempts to summarize all human knowledge. Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. 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 2 weeks ago
  2. A lot of hashtag searches that Twitter does uses Lucene internally and it forms the basic search for Wikipedia
    SOURCE: ZDNet 2 weeks ago
  3. I looked at him and I was like, 'Who's the old guy on the bike?' It wasn't until a few practices later, I looked at Wikipedia and I was like, 'Ohhhh!'
    SOURCE: Denver Post 2 weeks ago
  4. When people in other countries think of the United States, they usually know nothing about the Heartland ... We show up at meetings and the staff will have just printed out the Wikipedia entry on Memphis. My job is to explain what we're trying to accomplish and to walk them through the event.
    SOURCE: Memphis Commercial Appeal 2 weeks ago
  5. AND HERES WIKIPEDIA AGAIN
    SOURCE: 360-Faces 2 weeks ago
  6. They are serial squatters. If you go on Wikipedia, it tells you to keep the front nice and never leave the property. They basically followed that
    SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 2 weeks ago
  7. Wikipedia is not a reliable source at this level of discourse.
    SOURCE: Eric Goldman 2 weeks ago
  8. anyone [is allowed] to edit Wikipedia means that it is more easily vandalized and susceptible to unchecked information.
    SOURCE: Eric Goldman 2 weeks ago
  9. That’s only because it’s one of the top things on Wikipedia
    SOURCE: Dose Canada 2 weeks ago
  10. If you go on Wikipedia right now, what you'll see under my name is simply, 'Andrew's dad.' ... That's who I've become, and I'm very proud of it.
    SOURCE: Life Goes Strong 2 weeks ago
  11. Wikipedia, along with other crowd-sourced resources, is wreaking a certain amount of McLuhanesque havoc on conventional notions of 'authority,' 'authorship,' and even 'knowledge.'
    SOURCE: The Atlantic 2 weeks ago
  12. We define an editor e's interest in a Wikipedia article a as the mean similarity between e's search queries and a ... Then we define e's expertise in a as the ratio of e's interest in a to the average editor's interest in a. Intuitively, someone is an expert in a topic if there interest is significantly...
    SOURCE: The Atlantic 2 weeks ago
  13. On Wikipedia 'the author' is distributed, and this fact is indigestible to current models of thinking.
    SOURCE: The Atlantic 2 weeks ago
  14. Our parties are still primarily using Facebook — [which is] understandable since it is by far the most popular — and Twitter. But many forget about YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, various forums… Only the integrated use of all these media can yield synergistic results
    SOURCE: Eurasia Review 2 weeks ago
  15. Since we are very well aware of the fact that anyone can contribute to Wikipedia, we should be skeptical about the information it contains. Especially, regarding the events that occurred a long time ago.
    SOURCE: Eurasia Review 3 weeks ago
  16. Somehow on Wikipedia, it got said - fairly recently, which proves how absurd it is - that Tom Cruise and I got in a fight [on the set]
    SOURCE: MTV.com 3 weeks ago
  17. It’s an important development we put on track together with the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia movement, and we are proud to contribute to this
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  18. My kid would never do those things! He just uses Wikipedia to do his homework and talk to his friends on chat.
    SOURCE: Islamic Insights 3 weeks ago
  19. Chris Kattan's Wikipedia page says that 1,000 books were put in stores, but I can neither confirm or deny that number.
    SOURCE: SF Weekly 3 weeks ago
  20. I don’t know if there’s a definition on Wikipedia. The point is it’s a threat to Europe and threat to Israel.
    SOURCE: Think Progress 3 weeks ago
  21. The danger in relying on a Wikipedia entry is obvious and real
    SOURCE: United Press International 3 weeks ago
  22. Collaborative storytelling and filmmaking will do to Hollywood what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica
    SOURCE: ArtsJournal 3 weeks ago
  23. It’s important to add to information on Wikipedia because lots of key people (scholars, policy makers, students, journalists, and so on) look for information on the web, and they often look at Wikipedia. It’s a pity when the information on Wikipedia is wrong or incomplete or poorly presented ... The wor...
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  24. It’s important to add to information on Wikipedia because lots of key people (scholars, policy makers, students, journalists, and so on) look for information on the web, and they often look at Wikipedia. It’s a pity when the information on Wikipedia is wrong or incomplete or poorly presented ... The wor...
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago
  25. Wikipedia is an important source of information for many people. Good information is a public good. Part of my job as a university scholar and teacher is to contribute to information in areas where I have expertise
    SOURCE: Wikimedia blog 3 weeks ago