[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Google Alert - Wikipedia

[Keith Old]

Media stories about Wikipedia for your reference including an English story
about the German Wikipedia's copyright problems.

Regards


Keith Old

Keith Old
User: Capitalistroadster

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From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply at google.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2005 8:56 PM
Subject: Google Alert - Wikipedia
To: keithold at gmail.com

Google Alert for: *Wikipedia*

Web tool puts new face on
*Wikipedia*<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5975227.html>
ZDNet - USA
The popularity of *Wikipedia*, an online encyclopedia to which anyone can
contribute, is spawning a host of complementary tools and offshoots. *...*

Free Encyclopedia *Wikipedia*.de Has Copyright
Issues<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1796407,00.html>
Deutsche Welle - Germany
The German version of free online encyclopedia *Wikipedia* has hit a glitch.
Hundreds of entries are thought to have been lifted from *...*

*Wikipedia* gets custom
interface<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39239122,00.htm>
ZDNet UK - UK
The popularity of *Wikipedia*, an online encyclopaedia to which anyone can
contribute, is spawning a host of complementary tools and offshoots. *...*

A false *Wikipedia*
'biography'<http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm>
USA Today - USA
*...* I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the false, malicious
"biography" that appeared under my name for 132 days on *Wikipedia*, the
popular, online, free *...*

*Wikipedia* democratizes
information<http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/detail.asp?ID=72849&GRP=E>
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
In recent times, searching names, places and other proper names has started
to consistently produce a common result: *Wikipedia*. *...*

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