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Knight Foundation Helping People Use Wikipedia Better
The Knight Foundation is funding a Wikimedia project to help people use its properties better. “With support from Knight Foundation, we’re kicking off exploratory research and prototyping to improve...
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Exporting Wikipedia for Offline Use
From MakeUseOf: 4 Easy Ways to Export Wikipedia for Offline Use. I admit this one is for me; I occasionally need to grab something from Wikipedia but can’t remember my options. Filed under: Useful...
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Is Wikipedia Putting Together Its Own Search Engine?
Is Wikipedia putting together its own search engine? “Wikipedia developers have sketched out designs for a Wikipedia Search Engine, which would give users a one-click replacement for Google search. The...
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Filtering Twitter Data Using Wikipedia Data
Please, please, someone make the tool proposed in this research paper, Real Time Filtering of Tweets Using Wikipedia Concepts and Google Tri-gram Semantic Relatedness . Here’s the abstract: “Interest...
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Wikipedia Has a New iOS App
Wikipedia has a new iOS app. “The app features articles and images tailored to your interests and surroundings through the new Explore feed. By scrolling down in the Explore feed, you can easily browse...
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Angolans Managing to Pirate Movies with Just Wikipedia / Facebook Access
Because people are innovative, that’s why. Angolans are being given free access to Wikipedia and Facebook — and only Wikipedia and Facebook — and they’re still managing to pirate movies. “Wikimedia and...
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YouTube Series Explores Wikipedia’s Weird Articles
Tubefilter tipped me to a nifty YouTube series that focuses on odd articles in Wikipedia. “The latest channel diving into the Wikipedia rabbit hole is Wendover Productions, which has translated unusual...
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Unexpected Benefits of Wikipedia Accounts
MakeUseOf: 7 Unexpected Benefits of Creating a Wikipedia Account. Filed under: Useful Stuff Tagged: Wikipedia
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Expanding Wikipedia With Articles in Less-Widespread Languages
Computer scientists at Stanford have designed a tool to help create Wikipedia articles in a wider variety of languages. “…computer scientists at Stanford and the Wikimedia Foundation have created a...
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Wikipedia’s Longest Featured Articles
Wikipedia breaks down its ten longest featured articles. SPOILER: Elvis is #1. “The English Wikipedia has more than 4,700 featured articles at the time of writing—fewer than 0.1 percent of all...
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Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia?
Harvard Business Review: Why do so few women edit Wikipedia? “Two professors, Julia Bear of Stony Brook University’s College of Business and Benjamin Collier of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar,...
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MakeUseOf: Try Exploring Wikipedia Visually Like a Spaceship in Space
Interesting: Try Exploring Wikipedia Visually Like a Spaceship in Space. “Wikiverse turns the Wikipedia experience into an outer space exploration. Zoom out and you’ll see constellations of related,...
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Loige: Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other shell...
From Loige: Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other shell commands. “In this article I am going to show you how I was able to extract and process some information from Wikipedia...
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Drexel: Just Give Me Some Privacy — Anonymous Wikipedia Editors and Tor Users...
Drexel University: Just Give Me Some Privacy — Anonymous Wikipedia Editors and Tor Users Explain Why They Don’t Want You to Know Who They Are “Not everyone who strives to navigate the internet without...
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French Internet Provider Accidentally Blocks Wikipedia, Google As Terrorist...
The government of France probably made millions of people scream “MERDE!” when it accidentally had Wikipedia and Google blocked as terrorist sites. “France instituted the blocking of sites said to be...
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PubMed – Evaluating Google, Twitter, and Wikipedia as Tools for Influenza...
Found at PubMed: Evaluating Google, Twitter, and Wikipedia as Tools for Influenza Surveillance Using Bayesian Change Point Analysis: A Comparative Analysis. “Traditional influenza surveillance relies...
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Wikipedia, Internet Archive Team Up to Fix One Million Broken Links
Wikipedia and the Internet Archive have teamed up. “The Internet Archive, the Wikimedia Foundation, and volunteers from the Wikipedia community have now fixed more than one million broken outbound web...
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Quartz: Wikipedia’s not as biased as you might think
Quartz: Wikipedia’s not as biased as you might think. “Often, people limit their Facebook and Twitter circles to likeminded people and only follow certain subreddits, blogs, and news sites, creating an...
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Wolfram Blog: Making Wikipedia Knowledge Visible
From the Wolfram Blog: Making Wikipedia Knowledge Visible. “Over the past few months, Wolfram Community members have been exploring ways of visualizing the known universe of Wikipedia knowledge. From...
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Download Wikipedia for Offline Reading
Did you know you could download Wikipedia for offline reading? “There are any number of possible reasons where you might want your own personal copy of Wikipedia on your computer. Maybe you want to let...
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