Wikipedia hits 300,000 pages
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Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles
Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles
07/07/2004 05:00 AMWikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark
Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark
09/21/2004 04:44 AMGigaBlast Hits 1 billion Pages Indexed
GigaBlast Hits 1 billion Pages Indexed
01/07/2005 12:02 AMEveryones sentimental dark horse Gigablast hits 1 billion pages
indexed.
"Wikimedia Foundation Announces
Corporate Support of Wikipedia from
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the
Organization to Run Wikipedia
Independently"
"Wikimedia Foundation Announces
Corporate Support of Wikipedia from
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the
Organization to Run Wikipedia
Independently"
04/09/2005 03:59 AMWikipedia:April 1, 2005/-2005 Britannica
takeover of Wikimedia- - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/-2005 Britannica
takeover of Wikimedia- - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
04/02/2005 05:11 AMl'encyclopédie libre vient d'être achetée par
l'encyclopédie Britannica .. Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/2005
Britannica takeover of Wikimedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ..
Wikipedia sells out to Britannica ..
wikpedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Britannica_takeover_of_Wikimedia
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Yellow pages? Pink pages
Yellow pages? Pink pages
06/04/2004 07:04 AMI'm up early working on my English Essay. It will be done in about 15
minutes. I just had to...
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
11/17/2003 12:56 AMMediaWiki 2003-11-17 release
WWW-Wikipedia-0.9
WWW-Wikipedia-0.9
08/05/2004 05:33 AMWWW-Wikipedia-1.5
WWW-Wikipedia-1.5
03/23/2005 12:23 PMWikipedia Needs $20,000
Wikipedia Needs $20,000
12/29/2003 11:47 PMLetter to
our readers and contributors: This is either heartbeaking or
inspiring, I'm not sure which. It turns out that Wikipedia is failing under the
load created by its popularity.
...the three servers that currently host all of
Wikimedia's projects in all languages are simply not enough,
especially as two of them have turned out to have hardware defects.
... I estimate that $20,000 in hardware would get us to a point where
we have reserves to handle the failure of any one machine.
Additionally, we would be well-poised to continue our track record of
astounding growth.
That's the heartbreaking part, since Wikipedia is one of the most
perfect Web resources ever created. But looking in on this page right
now (10 p.m. CST), I'm seeing "Money raised: $23,382.17." If that is
an accurate figure, and the Web community has altruistically pulled
Wikipedia out of a downward spiral, then it makes me glad to be
alive.
If someone can confirm that Wikipedia's needs have been met, please
post confirmation.
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WWW-Wikipedia-1.0
WWW-Wikipedia-1.0
08/10/2004 10:39 AMWWW-Wikipedia-1.2
WWW-Wikipedia-1.2
09/01/2004 04:59 PMWikipedia Again
Wikipedia Again
12/17/2004 06:37 PM“Reference Publishing” is the business of publishing “reference
works”: dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the like. By definition, it
includes the
Wikipedia, which
is intended as a reference work. I have
remarked kindly on
the Wikipedia and
taken exception when
it came under attack. There have been a lot of voices chiming in on
this issue; herewith a survey and, based on my years in reference
publishing and because I care profoundly, I’ll add my own
observations...
WWW-Wikipedia-1.1
WWW-Wikipedia-1.1
08/20/2004 12:32 AMWikipedia Needs $20K
Wikipedia Needs $20K
12/28/2003 09:20 PMJew - Wikipedia
Jew - Wikipedia
04/14/2004 09:10 AMdefinition of a Jew, or a Jewish person .. entry for the word Jew ..
Jewish .. Jews .. item .. Jew
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
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Wikipedia != Authoritative?
Wikipedia != Authoritative?
09/05/2004 09:17 AMWikipedia has no articles
Wikipedia has no articles
02/01/2005 09:09 PMI have been corrected by the estimable SJ Klein for referring to
Wikipedia as "the Wikipedia." I stand corrected and will attempt to
avoid mistake next time. I hope I have not caused Wikipedia any the
distress....
The Wikipedia Blog
The Wikipedia Blog
05/19/2004 12:08 AMWikiWisdom: I asked
for it, and someone went and did it...
A weblog dedicated to wikipedia.org? Why not. The content
is free, after all. The Wikipedia offers hundreds of thousands of
articles of information - that's right, hundreds of thousands. Of
course, many of those hundreds of thousands are rather short but the
sheer volume of information is amazing.
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Many-to-Many: Academia and Wikipedia
Many-to-Many: Academia and Wikipedia
01/06/2005 11:56 AMhow Wikipedia won't be an encylopedia .. Danah Boyd .. M2M entry ..
debate
corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/04/academia_and_wikipedia.p
hp
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Wikipedia Reinvents
Wikipedia Reinvents
05/31/2004 11:29 AM
Wikipedia has reinvented
itself. It now supports discussions about any article, and
provices an easy way for users to look at previous article versions.
Maybe it could do this before -- but my memory and the Google cache
lead me to think not. To the jaded eye, this looks like just a
software upgrade. But the implications are greater than that.
Wikipedia is the great white hope for free (as in freedom) information
on the web, and this ups the ante. My big questions: Can they handle
the load? And how long before anyone notices?
Wikipedia Hardware
Wikipedia Hardware
07/12/2004 11:07 AMWikimedia
servers - Wikimedia's Meta wiki: Ever wanted to know exactly what
hardware powers Wikipedia? Here's a detailed list of their servers,
their CPU stats, and the OS they're running (all RedHat 9 or Fedora,
it looks like).
To see how these servers handle the load, check out the Ganglia Cluster Stats.
Here's the budg
et for hardware — they're about to spend another $20,000 and
that leaves them flat broke from the w
ave of generosity from a year ago.
I swear, if I won the lottery, I'd give my first million to
Wikipedia. For now, $25 will have to do.
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Novedades en la es.wikipedia
Novedades en la es.wikipedia
04/30/2004 10:27 AMWikipedia Update
Wikipedia Update
06/05/2005 11:24 PMJust for the record, violet/riga did finally
respond to my question about the WorldCat link
for The Da Vinci Code. Apparently Liz Lawley’s follow-up
question on violet/riga’s page got more attention, so thanks,
Liz!
Comments on the previous post noted the existing method for linking
to books via ISBN (thanks, Richard!), and that’s a
valid point. The WorldCat link is included on that Book Sources page, along with other ways to find the title in
libraries, so it still serves as a good example of what I was saying
in my presentation. violet/riga eventually found that, too, which
makes more sense than her original notation.
Case closed.
A Wikipedia Blog
A Wikipedia Blog
01/16/2004 11:33 AMI'm tempted to start a blog solely for linking to great Wikipedia entries. One of my
morning rituals is to hit the random page
link at Wikipedia and see where it takes me. I've found some
fantastic articles that beat anything in a paid resource.
Take a browse through the Billiant
Prose page and see gems like Sniper, Crushing by
Elephant (morbidly fascinating), Batman, Dick Tracy, James Bond, etc.
You could make an entire blog out of links to great Wikipedia entries.
According to the statistics page, there are almost 200,000 entries.
That should keep you busy for a while.
Someone should do this.
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Tweaking Wikipedia
Tweaking Wikipedia
06/17/2005 03:49 PMDoes anyone know why Wikipedia displays a redirected
page at the same URL rather than using a proper HTTP redirect? Case in
point: Topics in human-computer interaction actually displays the
content from List of human-computer interaction topics (that's my next
exam topic) - the same content appears at two different URLs. Yuck. Here's a
Greasemonkey script to fix it: wikipedia-redirect.user.js.
While I'm at it, Wikipedia's search function is painfully
slow. Here's another user script which changes their search button to
search the site using Google instead. It also swaps the positions of
the "Search" and "Go" buttons, and makes "Search" the default action
for the form: wikipedia-googlesearch.user.js.
Do the Wikipedia a Favor
Do the Wikipedia a Favor
01/07/2004 03:21 PMThe wonderful Wikipedia project
needs help. Please donate
a bit; I did.
Sollog and Wikipedia
Sollog and Wikipedia
12/17/2004 06:43 PMUs
enet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia: This is absolutely
hysterical
Unable to accept that Wikipedia's policy of presenting a Neutral
Point of View means that an article on Sollog would have to include
both pro- and anti-Sollog material, and unable to force other
Wikipedia editors to accept his version of reality, Ennis has taken
instead to making hostile phone calls to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
at his home, and setting up his very own Wikipedia and Wales hate
site.
A while back, I asked if you've finally arrived when you get a
"watch" site -- http://www.google-watch.com
for instance.
Now I know the truth. You've finally arrived when you get a
"sucks" site. When http://www.gadgetopiasucks.com hits the Internet, I'm buying a Porsche.
CNN cites Wikipedia
CNN cites Wikipedia
09/08/2004 10:46 AM
Cory Doctorow:
CNN repeatedly cites Wikipedia in this article on the Russian
hostage-taking allegedly planned by Shamil Basayev.
During the rebel pullout from Grozny in January 2000 Basayev lost a
foot after stepping on a landmine, according to the Wikipedia Web
site, but he and other rebel fighters eluded Russian capture by hiding
in forests and mountains.
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Thanks, Scott!)
Problems with Wikipedia in my DNS
Problems with Wikipedia in my DNS
06/17/2005 05:09 PM
For the last several days, I haven't been able to access the
English Wikipedia from home. This has happened in the past. The reason
is that the DNS that my ISP provides me is returning an error when
looking up en.wikipedia.org.
dig en.wikipedia.org
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
;; communications error to 210.130.232.1#53: end of file
The odd thing is that jp.wikipedia.org and other
Wikipedia subdomains resolve. Also, when I try another DNS server,
en.wikipedia.org resolves. The DNS server I am using,
DNS.CDN-JAPAN.COM (210.130.232.1) is run by IIJ, my ISP. Has anyone
else had similar problems either with other domains on IIJ or problems
with en.wikipedia.org on other DNS servers?
Sorry, for this obscure and geeky post, but being prevented from
using Wikipedia has become extremely irritating.
UPDATE: en, fr, nl, de, pl fail. ja, eo, ko, es, zh work. It
appears that the ones which are failing use geodns.
UPDATE 2: I caught up with a senior guy from my ISP IIJ at the
Internet Association meeting yesterday and explained the problem to
him. He said that MAYBE it is because they are running a load
balancing thing that might interact weirdly with geodns. He's looking
into it for me.
UPDATE 3: I got a response from my ISP. They said that the
"AUTHORITYSECTION" was being returned making the record longer than
512 bytes forcing it to respond via TCP instead of UDP. They said that
they thought my firewall was blocking TCP responses from dns. They
changed the setting on the nameserver not to add the AUTHORITYSECTION
and now it appears to work for me... I've asked them to provide me
with another long domain entry greater than 512 bytes so I can see if
I can replicate the error...
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La Wikipedia en La Vanguardia
La Wikipedia en La Vanguardia
03/14/2005 06:10 PMTwo Thumbs Up for Wikipedia
Two Thumbs Up for Wikipedia
07/16/2004 09:50 AMI,
ROBOT / ** (PG-13): Wikipedia got a mention in Roger Ebert's
review of "I, Robot," posted this morning.
Asimov's robot stories were often based on robots that got
themselves hopelessly entangled in logical contradictions involving
the laws. According to the invaluable Wikipedia encyclopedia on the
Web, Harlan Ellison and Asimov collaborated in the 1970s on an "I,
Robot" screenplay, which, the good doctor said, would produce "the
first really adult, complex, worthwhile science fiction movie ever
made."
Beautiful. On another note, the company at the center of this
movie is called "U.S. Robotics." Was it called that in the book, or
did they borrow the name from the modem company? Which came
first?
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Wikipedia enhancements
Wikipedia enhancements
05/31/2004 05:03 PMI don't know when it happened, but Wikipedia has a stylish new
design in mostly valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional (the front page validates,
some of the inside pages do not) with a CSS layout to boot. They even have an option to turn off
the single layout table used on their home page. The site seems much
easier to navigate now and the organisation of the front page is a
masterpiece of information architecture. When you've got over 250,000
articles just in the English version providing a useful home page is
going to be a challenge, but Wikipedia pulls it off with aplomb.
Every time I visit Wikipedia I find something else to be
impressed by. This time round it was the Communi
ty Portal, which provides resources for Wikipedia contributors
including Things you can do, an Article of the week, a Tip of the day
and a myriad of other links. This is seriously well-organised content.
It's interesting to see how they deal with the challenges of 250,000
items in a single namespace as well.
Their recent Webby award for
best community was thoroughly deserved. And yes, they even encourage
people to collaborate on writing their press releases.
Wikipedia CD/DVD edition
Wikipedia CD/DVD edition
04/08/2005 05:28 AMCory Doctorow:
Wikipedia will be issuing a DVD/CD edition of the English version of
the encyclopedia, trimmed to exclude entires of dubious merit and
those that may infringe copyright or plagiarize other sources. I love
this -- I would also totally love to have a daily .torrent of the
entire Wikipedia on a language-by-language basis for those of us who
want to keep local mirrors.
"We want one last level of review to get to a stable branch," said
Wales. Wikipedia volunteers will also double-check articles to ensure
there is no plagiarism or copyright violation.
"We already have a strong policy against plagiarism and copyright
violation, but we'll be reading through things again and making sure
everything's confirmed," said Wales.
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Festivus - Wikipedia
12/27/2003 10:19 PMFestivus
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Novedades en la Wikipedia
Novedades en la Wikipedia
08/03/2004 09:03 AMCalDAV in Wikipedia
CalDAV in Wikipedia
03/14/2005 05:05 PM Lisa Dusseault has created a wikipedia article on CalDAV. A good
place to start if you're looking for information about a new approach
to calendar sharing and interoperability. Also see Jon Udell here.
Does your favorite protocol have a page? If not, add one!...
Wikipedia for Journalists
Wikipedia for Journalists
03/08/2004 11:23 PMWhile information can be found quickly and easily using tools such as
Google, the problem is often not a lack of content, but rather the
volumes of stale and ...
April 13 - Wikipedia
April 13 - Wikipedia
04/14/2005 06:51 AMWikipedia .. April 13
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_13
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