http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=16892
"Yet, Wikipedia lists only an estimated 12,000 of these notable
entities. At least 30,000 noteworthy companies and non-profits are
completely absent from the Wikipedia revolution!
As of July 2006, there is a new firm that will remedy this problem.
MyWikiBiz.com authors Wikipedia articles for companies and
organizations that presently lack exposure on the world's largest
encyclopedia."
Hey,
I just came across http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9433599, which
is the lead section of the Encyclopaedia Britannica article about
wikipedia. There is also one about wikis in general:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9404276.
These articles appear to be taken from the current revision of the EB
itself, not the yearbook or any other of these sources (on this web
site, you can never be sure).
EB is now the second (or third, depending on how you count)
encyclopedia to mention wikipedia. The Columbia Encyclopedia has one
and the 21st edition of the Brockhaus encyclopedia (in German).
I don't have full access to the EB article from here and I am very
curious about its accuracy :)
Fun fact: Last time I checked, Brockhaus refused to call Wikipedia an
encyclopedia.
Mathias
On 8/7/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It's really not a bad idea on the face of it. But their mistake was
> not just making a terminal server client for a PocketPC, which would
> do the same job better. If only their licensing department hadn't
Selling something that weighs as much as a laptop, costs more than a
laptop, but can't do half of what a laptop can do is smart? :) If it
had been $100 it could have been kind of cool.
> utterly crippled the idea. Remember: proprietary software is not just
> evil, it's *stupid*.
Yeah, but it's paying my salary.
Steve
There is a picture on another project which would be good in an
article on en:. Only problem is, the other project is
Uncyclopaedia...
I'm guessing the licensing is incompatible, and i can't trace the
original source. Bummer, really.
Guy (JzG)
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http://www.chapmancentral.co.ukhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG
I've been speaking to a few people at the BBC about this. I'll be
helping them with whatever I can, but they could do with more of the
fiercely addicted editors, particularly those who've been on Wikipedia
for a fair while! Here's something they sent me to send to you all:
"BBC ONE's 'Imagine' programme is looking for UK-based regular
Wikipedia contributors. We are making a film about how the internet
has changed our culture and want to show how Wikipedia has developed
and the way it works. We're especially keen to hear from people
who've had a 'Featured Article' on the homepage, or who contribute
very regularly. Please contact us at imagineinternet(a)hotmail.co.uk,
and leave your phone number plus an outline of your subject
interests."
So far they seem very clueful and like they're going to try hard to do
us justice. All good :-) I should be meeting up with them some time
this week (helps that I work just nearby ;-).
- d.
Hi all,
Apologies to those who read it, but there was an interesting article
about the value of Wikipedia in academia, based on several academic
mailing lists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-31/Listse…
It includes this rich quote: "...it is extremely useful as a
springboard for further research. It will be impossible to find
anything on "goosing" or "Dirty Sanchez" in the more respectable
(elitist?) encyclopedias, or much on more obscure forms of sexual
behaviour."
I can't wait to see this get used in future AfDs :)
Steve
On 4 Aug 2006 at 21:51, "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> What about http://magic.formatting.com ? Is that a necessary evil?
It gets me a domain-parking page with lots of pay-per-click pseudo-
search/portal links... the sort of thing an awful lot of URLs get to
these days. I wouldn't use the term "evil" for this, but certainly
it's an annoyance.
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Acadamenorth was indef-blocked due to disruption, harrassment and
general trolling, but the autoblock is causing issues for user Jack
O'Lantern. I tried a one second block of Jack, should that fix it?
Guy (JzG)
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Hello,
I gather that at some stage a template that I had created, {{ISBN}}
has been deleted. I'd very curious to read what the reasoning was. I'd
also be curious to know why no one told me about it ;)
Anyone know how I can find the discussion in the archives? I can't see
a way other than systematically plodding through all the archives for
each day and hoping to stumble on it. But since I can only guess it
was sometime in the last month or two. Can't find it with Wikipedia's
search, can't find it with google...any ideas?
I'm presuming that old TfD archives are actually retained...?
Steve