Wikipedia News

Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for 2007 posted

May 16, 2008

Infothought / Seth Finkelstein

The Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for fiscal year 2007 is available now. for people who don't know, the "form 990" is an IRS disclosure form required for charities. And it's often full of interesting ...

Wikipedia vs. OED

May 16, 2008

RodeWorks / Randall

Yes, the models are similiar — although in the OED example the thousands of user-supplied citations were vetted by editors. Now Wikipedia is considering freezing versions of entries certified b ...

Add Wikipedia and a Dictionary to Firefox's Sidebar

May 16, 2008

Tech-Recipes.com / shamanstears

I'm always on the lookout for useful pages to use in my Firefox sidebar. After reading about using the Google Reader for iPhone in your Firefox sidebar, I started looking for other useful iPhone-read ...

¿Qué es la Web 2.0?

May 16, 2008

Sociedad en Red - sociedadenred.info / Rafael Chamorro (noreply@blogger.com)

Wikipedia: Not Just Unreliable on the Middle East

May 16, 2008

Solomonia / Solomon

Lawrence Solomon, writing at the National Post: Wikipedia's zealots. Try getting a little accuracy on the climate "consensus": ...I undid Tabletop's undoing of my edits, thinking I had an un ...

Stereolab - Wikipedia

May 16, 2008

What's New on Yahoo! - Music

Bio and discography of Stereolab, the original post-rock band, with sections on history, musical style, lyrics and titles, impact, and links.More Sites about Rock and Pop > Stereolab ...

Briefs: Explore Wikipedia with Live Maps

May 16, 2008

ResourceShelf / resourceshelf

+ Explore Wikipedia with Live Maps + NIST Tool Helps Internet Master Top-level Domains + Scholarly Communication Discussion Guides Updated and Expanded (via ARL) ...

Paper Shredders on Wikipedia

May 16, 2008

Privacy Blog,

Posted by Website Introductions: It is a common belief that paper shredders are good tools to protect your identity. By shredding the documents that contain vital information and are not in use anymor ...

Make Wikipedia College-Paper Citable?

May 16, 2008

Phi Beta Cons

A founder of the site suggests how -- just turn Wikipedia into something it#39;s not:But the popular encyclopedia may soon add a new feature that woul... . . . ...

Yochai Benkler, others at Harvard map current and future Internet

May 16, 2008

O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies / Andy Oram

Harvard's world-renowned Berkman Center for Internet & Society is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a conference called Berkman@10. The center is a conglomeration of many people, both lawyers ...

Mostly Harmless modding - PDA with complete Wikipedia on board

May 16, 2008

Tech Digest / Daniel Sung

Ok, now unlike this morning's piece of mod-mania, this is one I don't think I could manage. Some might argue that with mobile internet going from strength to strength, an all-knowledgeable, Wikipedia- ...