Olympic Coverage at Wikipedia
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Entriq Selected by Ebu for 2004 Olympic
Games Online Video Coverage to Millions
Entriq Selected by Ebu for 2004 Olympic
Games Online Video Coverage to Millions
09/02/2004 12:16 AMNews.scotsman.com - Wed Sep 1, 06:26 pm GMT
"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 AMUnited States Olympic Committee
Re-Launches Official U.S. Olympic Team
Website
United States Olympic Committee
Re-Launches Official U.S. Olympic Team
Website
07/31/2004 03:47 PMWith less than 30 days until the Opening Ceremonies of the 2004
Olympic Games, the official web site of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team,
usolympicteam.com has re-launched with two major "firsts" designed to
enhance the Olympic sports' fan experience by customizing to their
favorite sports – personalization of sports news and a U.S. Olympic
Fan Club.
Wikipedia: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
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After saturation coverage of Olympics,
why no Paralympics TV coverage in US?
After saturation coverage of Olympics,
why no Paralympics TV coverage in US?
09/07/2004 11:47 PM
Xeni Jardin:
BBC Journalist and blogger Stuart Hughes says:
The Olympics were a huge success for NBC.200 million viewers. A "halo
effect" that boosted other channels and programmes. An estimated
$60-70 million profit (Source: Hollywood Reporter) Before the Games started,
NBC boast
ed of the depth and breadth of its coverage.1210 hours of
events.103 commentators. 28 Olympians on the commentary team. A week
from now, I'll be heading back to Athens for Greece's second
remarkable major sporting event of the year. The Paraly
mpics will boast:4000 athletes. 140 countries represented.525
gold medals at stake. 19 sports. There will be no American TV coverage of the
Paralympics. Let me repeat that. There will be NO AMERICAN TV
COVERAGE OF THE PARALYMPICS. Not one hour of live coverage.
Not one commentator. Not one Olympian on the commentary team. Nothing.
This at the same time that a record number of journalists are
preparing to cover the Paralympics.
Link to complete post on Stuart's weblog. See
also these related previous BoingBoing posts:
Stuart Hughes covers Olympics on his blog;
BBC journalist survives landmine; Xeni on NPR:
Tech helps
triple amputee to run again (
thanks, Karim)
WWW-Wikipedia-1.5
WWW-Wikipedia-1.5
03/23/2005 12:23 PMWWW-Wikipedia-1.2
WWW-Wikipedia-1.2
09/01/2004 04:59 PMWWW-Wikipedia-1.1
WWW-Wikipedia-1.1
08/20/2004 12:32 AMWikipedia 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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Wikipedia Needs $20K
Wikipedia Needs $20K
12/28/2003 09:20 PMWikipedia
Wikipedia
11/17/2003 12:56 AMMediaWiki 2003-11-17 release
Wikipedia 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-0.9
WWW-Wikipedia-0.9
08/05/2004 05:33 AMJew - 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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WWW-Wikipedia-1.0
WWW-Wikipedia-1.0
08/10/2004 10:39 AMDo 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.
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.
Link
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Thanks, Scott!)
Wikipedia 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....
CalDAV 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!...
La Wikipedia en La Vanguardia
La Wikipedia en La Vanguardia
03/14/2005 06:10 PMA 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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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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via /.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 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?
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
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Wikipedia Animate
Wikipedia Animate
06/24/2005 07:22 PMJon
Udell: Visualizing change: I wish I was Jon Udell, as he gets
everything he asks for. This time he — along with some help
from Andy Baio — got someone
to write a
script that animates Wikipedia changes inline. See the picture at
the above link, and he apparently has a screencast on it (that I
haven't watched).
Recently I wished out loud for an automated way to animate revision
histories in Wikipedia. Andy Baio liked the idea and sponsored a
contest for a script that would do that. There have been several
entries, and today's short screencast explores one of them: Dan
Phiffer's Wikipedia Animate.
The script is amazing. It's keyed off the "action=history" in the
URL, so it works on any Wikimedia wiki,
(including the one on my intranet) which is awesome (you have to have
Firefox with Greasemonkey installed, of
course.)
To use it, go to the "History" tab of a Wikipedia page, and select
two versions for comparison (for the best results, select the first
and current versions). Start the script and watch. You can pause it,
manually go forward and back, and even drag the little time indicator
to move back and forth.
This script has convinced me that I suck to the extreme, and so I'm
going to quit Web development and go work at McDonalds.
Wikipedia != Authoritative?
Wikipedia != Authoritative?
09/05/2004 09:17 AMNovedades en la es.wikipedia
Novedades en la es.wikipedia
04/30/2004 10:27 AMWikipedia 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 ...
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.
Some notes on Wikipedia
Some notes on Wikipedia
12/24/2004 12:35 PM
I've been driving myself crazy with coursework over the past couple
of weeks, and since it's always good to have something to take your
mind off things I've also been spending a fair amount of time lurking
around the beautiful Wikipedia. Here are a few things
about Wikipedia you may have missed:
- It's not just Wikipedia any more; there's also Wiktionary (a multi-lingual
dictionary), Wikibooks
(developing open content books on various topics), Wikiquote (quotations), Wikisource (a
repository of public domain source texts), Wikispecies (a
biological species database), Wikicommons (free images and
other media) and Wikinews (a new
Wikipedia-style news site). Not to mention the huge numbers of
projects in other
languages.
- You can view live stat graphs of the Wikipedia squid cache servers and see an overview of the status of all Wikipedia
servers.
- Last year's drive for
donations was mostly spent on new hardware, and a detailed list of hardware orders is
available.
- Wikipedia's awesome TeX engine for presenting mathematical
formulae may soon be expanded to support rendering of musical scores,
SVG graphics, chemical formulae and more, thanks to the brilliant Wikitex module for MediaWiki.
- Wikisource has a bunch of
stories by H. P. Lovecraft!
- Wikipedia's Peri
odic table links to detailed descriptions of every single
element.
- Live recent
changes feed is a page that shows edits to Wikipedia in real
time. It works by keeping the HTTP connection to your browser
open and sending updates packaged as JavaScript calls (I think this is
the same trick used by CGI:IRC).
- The channel #enrc.wikipedia on
irc.freenode.net carries a bot-produced live feed of
recent changes to Wikipedia. Edits occur so frequently that the bot
had to be split in to five to avoid being flooded off the
channel!
- Wikipedia has a huge va
ndalism problem, but malicious edits are cleared up so fast that
you'd be hard pressed to spot it.
- The Wikimedia foundation has an attractive quarterly newsletter,
the Wikimedia
Quarto. September's issue includes an
interview with Ward Cunningham.
- Wikipedia provides a great way to sharpen your language skills;
not only does Wikibooks have guides to teaching yourself French and German (among others) but the multi-lingual versions
of Wikipedia provide excellent practise in reading comprehension.
Compare the English and French entries on Bath, for example.
- The Wikimedia foundation recently received a small grant to
develop a series of children's books.
The deeper I dig in to Wikipedia, the more amazed I become. I see
it as more than just a collaborative encyclopaedia; it's a testament
to humanity's ability to work together for the greater good. I guess
you could say I'm in WikiLove
:)
Wikipedia at a Million
Wikipedia at a Million
09/20/2004 06:38 PMWikipedia has just published
its millionth article. Wow.
Two 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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Going Where the Users Are. Wikipedia?
Going Where the Users Are. Wikipedia?
01/05/2005 01:26 AMThere’s another Wikipedia discussion
ensuing on the WEB4LIB
mailing list (star
ts here), and so far my favorite response come
s from Ross Singer.
“I don't think the use of Wikipedia should be encouraged
or discouraged. It's a website just like any other, however, what
makes it special (and
therefore, more valuable than academic and
‘vetted’ sites, IMHO) is that people are actually *using*
it.
Therefore, what we need to do is create ways to access this
‘valuable’ information from /within/ these alternative
interfaces. This search in
Wikipedia also brings back x
number of results in Academic Search Premier (or whatever) and provide
a link to that canned search. Or this
movie that you are
looking at in IMDB is available from your local public
library.
I don't think the solution is to try to take people
away from ‘what is available with the least effort’.
Good God, no... at least they're
searching somewhere. The
much better approach would be to insert ourselves into their search
(wherever) and present alternatives to
whatever the user
got. We get really concerned about ‘branding’ and
making sure that people know where the resources they use come from,
but
this can be achieved (possibly better) through ubiquity than
through forced branding by forcing people into our resources and
websites.
If my library is just ‘everywhere’, then
I'm not nearly as likely to forget about
it.”
It’s obvious why I like
Ross’ post, right? The whole idea of going where your users are,
disintermediation, and becoming part of peoples’ trust circles
again. It’s a very Scan-like comment, as well as
being a great idea. What would happen if we started pointing to
library resources from within the entries?
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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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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April 13 - Wikipedia
April 13 - Wikipedia
04/14/2005 06:51 AMWikipedia .. April 13
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_13
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Wikipedia 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.
Festivus - Wikipedia
Festivus - Wikipedia
12/27/2003 10:19 PMFestivus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus
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