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Yahoo to Support Wikipedia Encyclopedia

Yahoo to Support Wikipedia Encyclopedia 04/09/2005 01:16 PM
PC World Online Apr 9 2005 4:40PM GMT

Yahoo to Support Wikipedia to Support
Yahoo

Yahoo to Support Wikipedia to Support
Yahoo 04/09/2005 07:42 PM
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wikipedia's fundraising campaign

wikipedia's fundraising campaign 09/20/2004 03:13 PM
they just passed the one million article milestone, now they need money

Shirky: Wikipedia's "anti-elitism" is a
feature, not a bug

Shirky: Wikipedia's "anti-elitism" is a
feature, not a bug 01/04/2005 02:40 AM
Cory Doctorow: Kuro5hin published an article by a Wikipedia co-founder, in which he slams Wikipedia for its "anti-elitism" and calls on the organization to mend its ways in order to earn the confidence of academics, librarians and other learned types. I read it when it was first published and it seemed wrong to me, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Now Clay Shirky -- himself an academic -- has written a wonderful and comprehensive rebuttal of the piece, explaining why complaints of "anti-elitism" are misplaced.

Of course librarians, teachers, and academics don't like the Wikipedia. It works without privelege, which is inimical to the way those professions operate.

This is not some easily fixed cosmetic flaw, it is the Wikipedia's driving force. You can see the reactionary core of the academy playing out in the horror around Google digitizing books held at Harvard and the Library of Congress -- the NY Times published a number of letters by people insisting that real scholarship would still only be possible when done in real libraries. The physical book, the hushed tones, the monastic dedication, and (unspoken) the barriers to use, these are all essential characteristics of the academy today.

It's not that it doesn't matter what academics think of the Wikipedia -- it would obviously be better to have as many smart people using it as possible. The problem is that the only thing that would make the academics happy would be to shoehorn it into the kind of filter, then publish model that is broken, and would make the Wikipedia broken as well.

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Brief Abstract of Wikipedia's
Mesothelioma Cancer page

Brief Abstract of Wikipedia's
Mesothelioma Cancer page 06/26/2005 02:07 AM
Mesothelioma is an uncommon form of cancer, usually associated with previous exposure to asbestos. In this disease, malignant (cancerous) cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body's internal organs. Its most common site is the pleura (outer lining of the lungs and chest cavity), but it may also occur in the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) or the pericardium (a sac that surrounds the heart).
Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or have been exposed to asbestos dust and fibre in other ways, such as by washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos, or by home renovation using asbestos cement products.
In the United States, the average mesothelioma-related settlement was $1 million; for cases that go to trial awards averaged $6 million, according to a study by the RAND Corporation. Only a small fraction of the thousands of asbestos-related lawsuits in the United States every year are related to mesothelioma. In 2004, a bill in the United States Senate aimed a asbestos litigation reform failed to reach a floor vote. In January of 2005, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter announced he would again try to pass an asbestos litigation reform bill.
A separate bill introduced on March 17, 2005, the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 (FAIR act of 2005), seeks to ensure a set amount of compensation dependent on the symptoms of the victim. The range is from Medical Monitoring for victims with Asbestosis or Pleural Disease to $35,000 for victims with Mixed Disease With Impairment all the way to over $1,000,000 for Mesothelioma victims and nonsmoking Lung Cancer victims from: Wikipedia's Mesothelioma page
Open Directory Project's Mesothelioma Category

Wikipedia's Emergent People fail to
impress readers

Wikipedia's Emergent People fail to
impress readers 09/15/2004 05:03 PM
The Register Sep 15 2004 8:28PM GMT

IM with support of ICQ, AOL, Yahoo

IM with support of ICQ, AOL, Yahoo 12/03/2003 02:31 PM
Planning Stage has begun

Yahoo to support Wikipedia

Yahoo to support Wikipedia 04/07/2005 12:25 PM
Search results will feature shortcuts to the community-based encyclopedia. Company will also provide hardware and resources.

News: Yahoo to support Wikipedia

News: Yahoo to support Wikipedia 04/07/2005 05:38 PM
Yahoo Inc.'s search engine division will supply hardware and other resources to the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to support that nonprofit organization's free Wikipedia online encyclopedia.

Yahoo Lends Support to Wikipedia

Yahoo Lends Support to Wikipedia 04/08/2005 10:04 AM
Search Engine Journal Apr 8 2005 12:33PM GMT

Yahoo! Search to support Wikipedia

Yahoo! Search to support Wikipedia 04/07/2005 10:31 AM

April 07, 2005 08:01 AM US Eastern Time

Wikimedia Foundation Announces Corporate Support of Wikipedia from Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the Organization to Run Wikipedia Independently

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2005--Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that develops and maintains free open content for the public, and Yahoo! Search, a leading global search engine, today announced that Yahoo! Search will dedicate hardware and resources to support Wikipedia, a community based encyclopedia written and edited by people from around the world. The contribution is the most significant dedication made to date to the Wikimedia Foundation by a corporate sponsor and is essential to furthering their global growth.

In addition, Wikipedia content will become available to hundreds of millions of users worldwide through Yahoo! Search via shortcuts that are automatically displayed above the relevant search results (http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/). Yahoo! will begin making Wikipedia content available via shortcuts in the U.S., select European, Asian, and Latin American properties over the next several weeks.

So Yahoo beat Google in the race to support Wikipedia. Seems like Yahoo is running circles around Google these days. Anyway, congrats to all involved. Sounds like an excellent relationship.

UPDATE: It was pointed out to me that I should make it clear that the "race" I was referring to was that Google had been widely rumored to be in talks with Wikipedia for sponsorship. Yahoo beat them in the race to close a deal with Wikipedia. Maybe it isn't a "race" but it's interesting in light of Yahoo one-upping Google on a variety of fronts these days.

UPDATE 2: Announcement on Wikimedia Foundation page.

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Yahoo Changes Tune on Firefox Support

Yahoo Changes Tune on Firefox Support 03/19/2005 02:58 AM
Yahoo took a step back Friday and told ZDNet Australia a pledge by its Australian division for full support of Firefox was "factually inaccurate." According to a representative of the company, there are "so many different products" on its network that it is likely there are some products which would not work with the open-source browser.

Yahoo to support Wikipedia (Update)

Yahoo to support Wikipedia (Update) 04/09/2005 09:59 PM
Industry Standard Apr 10 2005 1:40AM GMT

All Yahoo! Services to Support Mozilla
Firefox

All Yahoo! Services to Support Mozilla
Firefox 03/17/2005 03:18 AM

Yahoo! Search dedicates support to
Wikipedia

Yahoo! Search dedicates support to
Wikipedia 04/07/2005 10:40 AM
Yahoo! Search will be dedicating hardware and resources to support Wikipedia, a community based encyclopedia written and edited by people from around the world. Wikipedia content will become available to hundreds of millions of users worldwide through Yahoo! Search via shortcuts that are automatically displayed above the relevant search results in the U.S., select European, Asian, and Latin American properties over the next several weeks. Yahoo!’s contribution is said to be the most significant dedication made to date to the Wikimedia Foundation by a corporate sponsor. "Yahoo! Search's support and vast user base will provide critical material aid and global reach for Wikipedia," said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikimedia Foundation. "Yahoo! has been Wikipedia's longest-standing corporate supporter and with this dedication of resources we will be able to offer Wikipedia content to a growing worldwide audience, while maintaining full flexibility in our ability to expand relationships and freely distribute our works."

Fire Updated With Latest Yahoo Support

Fire Updated With Latest Yahoo Support 02/16/2004 12:08 PM
Mac Observer Feb 16 2004 3:27PM GMT

Yahoo! Maps to Support Realtime Traffic

Yahoo! Maps to Support Realtime Traffic 12/19/2004 03:51 PM
Slashdot Dec 19 2004 6:14AM GMT

Yahoo Authentication scheme support
comes to Fire

Yahoo Authentication scheme support
comes to Fire 02/17/2004 11:37 AM
The Fire Development Team has released Fire 0.32.i, the latest version of the free instant messenger client for Mac OS X (10.1 and higher) that supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, ICQ, and irc...

Yahoo! Search Providing Support to
Wikipedia

Yahoo! Search Providing Support to
Wikipedia 04/07/2005 01:03 PM

Yahoo! News - Iraqi General Urges
Support of U.S. Troops

Yahoo! News - Iraqi General Urges
Support of U.S. Troops 05/18/2004 01:32 AM
Iraq General Urges Support of U.S. Troops .. report from Fallujah: .. Yet there is news .. here

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20040516 /ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_fallujah_1
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" Yahoo! News - Iraqi General Urges
Support of U.S. Troops "

" Yahoo! News - Iraqi General Urges
Support of U.S. Troops " 05/18/2004 02:44 AM

"Yahoo! News - AP Poll Notes Decline in
Support for Bush"

"Yahoo! News - AP Poll Notes Decline in
Support for Bush" 02/10/2004 09:18 AM

Yahoo! News - Bush Seeks Global Support
for Iraq Plan

Yahoo! News - Bush Seeks Global Support
for Iraq Plan 05/26/2004 04:36 AM
Bush to World: I Still Don't Know What the Hell I'm Doing, And God Had a Stroke And Stopped Talking to Me, So We're In Deep Doo-Doo My Fellow 'Muricans! (Or Something Like That) 5/25 .. Bush Seeks Global Support for Iraq Plan .. have not been stepping forward

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=1&u=/ap/20040 525/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq
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Wikimedia Foundation Announces Corporate
Support of Wikipedia from Yahoo! Search;
Helps Allow the Organization

Wikimedia Foundation Announces Corporate
Support of Wikipedia from Yahoo! Search;
Helps Allow the Organization 04/07/2005 05:52 PM
CSR Wire Apr 7 2005 9:45PM GMT

Encyclopedia Buttanica

Encyclopedia Buttanica 09/20/2004 08:31 AM
"The anus contains an abundance of erotically pleasurable nerve endings," according to Wikipedia, the only encyclopedia that devotes an entry to Anal Masturbation.

The Encyclopedia of Comics

The Encyclopedia of Comics 07/20/2004 06:15 AM
Like comedy? You'll enjoy the encyclopedia of comics, from Abbott & Costello to Zacherley, available at http://www.comedystars.com/homepage/ . The list runs down the left side of the page. Click on...

Encyclopedia Pedantica

Encyclopedia Pedantica 08/07/2004 03:43 PM
For two years, NationMaster encyclopedia readers could follow the ongoing drama of what to call the U.S. federal government page, a story of English majors gang aft agley.

The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia 09/23/2004 05:10 AM
The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.canadianencyclop edia.ca/

With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Heritage Canada, Historica presents this site free of charge to all Canadians and to interested users around the world. The site contains the complete text of the acclaimed Canadian Encyclopedia in English and French, the text of the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (in English only), numerous interactivities, feature articles, games, the Canucklehead Quiz, and an extensive timeline of Canadian and world events. The entire text can be searched via the simple search or advanced search and the user can switch languages at any time. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

a simple encyclopedia

a simple encyclopedia 04/30/2004 06:33 AM
Simple English Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia with simple words and grammar.

The Literary Encyclopedia

The Literary Encyclopedia 05/07/2004 06:15 AM
The Literary Encyclopedia
http://www.litencyc.com/

The Literary Encyclopedia is an authoritative, up-to-date reference work written by named scholars most of whom are current university teachers. Its entries represent the state of the art in scholarly understanding and it grows in scale every week. The publication currently has around 150,000 visits each month. To date we have over 830 distinguished contributors, 1950 completed entries and indexed entries on 5472 writers, 15,826 works and 1406 topics. Our databases can be searched using buttons on our sidebar and by using the our index pages. We welcome suggestions for improvement to the service we provide and offers of contribution from established scholars and researchers. They also provide a growing "Books-in-Print" database which enables users to find what books are currently in print about the topics covered in this Encyclopedia. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

New Georgia Encyclopedia Now Available

New Georgia Encyclopedia Now Available 02/12/2004 01:30 AM
The state of Georgia is now offering their New Georgia Encyclopedia at http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp . You'll need to have QuickTime installed, and the whole shmeal starts with a Flash introduction, but...

"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 AM

Yahoo To Fully Support Not Fully
Supporting Firefox

Yahoo To Fully Support Not Fully
Supporting Firefox 03/19/2005 03:17 AM
Yahoo started to win some extra fans yesterday afternoon by announcing they were going to fully support Firefox on all their web offerings. If true, this would be great, since an increasing number of hard core internet users now rely almost exclusively on Firefox, and there's nothing more annoying than websites and services that force you to go back to IE. However, Yahoo quickly backtracked and claimed that actually, when they said they would fully support Firefox they meant they wouldn't fully support Firefox, though it's a nice idea.

Daily Encyclopedia Britannica RSS

Daily Encyclopedia Britannica RSS 04/08/2005 12:19 AM

Dave Winer reports that Enycyclopedia Britannica now offers an RSS feed for the daily content that appears on the home page. EB is one of my new member libraries (thanks to last year's merger), and one of their librarians came to my RSS class last year. By the end of it, her RSS light bulb was shining brightly, and she talked about going back to the office and pursuing RSS for the company. Hmmmmmmm...did a librarian lead the way???....

How The Web Ruined The Encyclopedia
Business

How The Web Ruined The Encyclopedia
Business 03/08/2004 11:06 PM

The Theodore Roosevelt Encyclopedia

The Theodore Roosevelt Encyclopedia 08/11/2004 08:21 AM
Actually they call it the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, but let's not quibble. What it is, is a CD-ROM that was published to the Web. It's presented in frames at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/TR%20Web%20Book/Index.html...

Science Project Encyclopedia

Science Project Encyclopedia 09/11/2004 07:06 AM

Science Project Encyclopedia

Science Project Encyclopedia
http://www.cpet.ufl.edu/scipro j/

An excellent resource just for students from the Center for Precollegiate Education and Training of the University of Florida titled Science Project Encyclopedia that will supply many resources to the students working at creating a project for their science fair. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Tne Encyclopedia of Fake Bands

Tne Encyclopedia of Fake Bands 12/17/2004 06:36 PM
Sure sure, you can go look up those bands that REALLY exist, but how about those bands which only exist in people's imaginations! Check out the Fakebandica, at http://www.fakebands.com/ ,...

Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (IEU)

Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (IEU) 04/13/2005 06:49 AM
Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (IEU)
http://encyclopediaofukraine. com/

This site is under construction. Once completed, the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (IEU) will be the most comprehensive source of information in English on Ukraine, its history, people, geography, society, economy, and cultural heritage. At present, the IEU team is working on phase 1 of the project: the creation of an Internet database containing the revised and updated contents of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Ukraine (University of Toronto Press, 1984-93) edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc (vols. 1-2) and Danylo Husar Struk (vols. 3-5). Less than eight percent of this information is currently displayed on their site. New entries are being edited, updated, and added daily. Their ability to update this information and the speed with which they can make it available to Internet users worldwide will greatly depend on the availability of financial resources for their project. You can greatly contribute to the success of the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine by supporting their work morally and financially. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
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