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Wikipedia Thwarts Stephen Colbert’s Attempt To Select Mitt Romney’s Running Mate
Published on 9 Aug, 2012 at 13:02 in Entertainment | | No Comments
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia of the new generation. But when you mix wikipedia, a presidential nominee and Stephen Colbert, hilarity can ensue.
It is the age of Wikipedia, and for comedians, this election will be one to remember. Until someone else changes it with the click of a mouse. Tuesday night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert suggested that his…
Wikipedia back after brief outage
Published on 7 Aug, 2012 at 2:14 in Technology | | No Comments
The crowd-sourced encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is back up and running Monday after a brief outage took parts of the site offline earlier Monday.
According to a tweet from the site’s parent group, the Wikimedia Foundation, the outage was due to a fiber optic cable being cut near its Florida data center.
Wikimania hits D.C. as Wikipedia faces changes
Published on 15 Jul, 2012 at 2:14 in Technology | | No Comments
Over 1,000 self-proclaimed Wikipedians from 87 countries descended on George Washington University’s campus to an annual meeting on all things Wikipedia. It was as if one of the site’s Talk pages — where people argue over the finer points of online articles — had come to life. Attendees in every presentation shot up their hands in the middle of speeches, eager to add their input.
Yet beyond the enthusiasm of…
Wikipedia entries full of factual errors, says researcher
Sixty percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors, according to a new research, which warned people not to rely on the website for accurate and balanced information.
“It does not surprise me that so many Wikipedia entries…
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