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An employee of NGO Monitor was recently banned from editing articles about the Israeli-Arab conflict for bias and not revealing his place of work. In the 12 years since its founding, the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia …France 24 · 6/17/2013
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Jimmy Wales talks to John Plunkett at the 2013 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity about the implications of the National Security Agency leaks and why the falling costs of computer processing power …The Guardian · 11 hours ago
A behind-the-scenes look at the so-called edit wars on Wikipedia has revealed the topics people argue about the most across the globe. The winners: religion and politics. Considering that Wikipedia is the result of mass collaboration, with essentially 40 ...NBC News · 6/3/2013
Wikipedia is, at its core, a crowdsourced encyclopedia. This has its upsides and downsides, allowing a free repository of knowledge to exist for all, but one which has as many critics as fans. Wikipedia is written by a team of unpaid editors, as ...makeuseof.com · 6/13/2013
The wrath of Wikipedia has fallen hard on Robert Clark Young, aka “Qworty,” the novelist/Wikipedia editor who took advantage of online anonymity to pursue vendettas against other writers with whom he had long been feuding. “Malicious ...Salon · ByAndrew Leonard · 5/21/2013
Productivity has been low this morning for reasons of pure self-indulgence. In an unexpected piece of fallout from my investigation of the strange affair of Robert Clark Young, the rogue Wikipedia editor, Wikipedia has decided — for the moment ...Salon · ByAndrew Leonard · 5/31/2013
A new site based on Wikipedia has proven to be quite addicting. Wikipedia Recent Changes Map, released earlier this month by programmers Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, streams all changes made by unregistered users to the English version ...The Huffington Post · 5/13/2013
Many countries including Kenya, Uganda and India have adopted this policy with successful results in an attempt to reduce the barriers to free knowledge. The four South African telecoms though have since responded with …memeburn.com · 6/14/2013
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In a New York Times op-ed, writer Amanda Filipacchi shared her discovery that sexism on Wikipedia is intrusively shaping how women are represented, and in this case, how women are sometimes categorized as a special subset within a broader ...Forbes · ByDeanna Zandt · 4/26/2013
Outside of Japan, the word "hentai" is used to refer to a certain type of Japanese anime, manga, or video games. It's a genre. In Japan, it's not. Recently on 2ch, Japan's largest forum, people discovered the Chinese language Wikipedia entry for "hentai".Kotaku · 5/23/2013
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