Community websites take wiki path
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The founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia launches a service offering free tools for community websites.
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The Jimmy Wales-founded organization, which encompasses Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based sites, is appealing to its reader for donations to help expand its language reach (among other things).
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The folks behind the open-source reference site that's challenging the encyclopedia industry decide to give journalism a go. Through the experimental Wikinews site, anyone can take a stab at being a reporter. By Joanna Glasner.
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Wikipedia is not a search engine, and links from Wikipedia no longer count towards increasing your link equity Ã¢ÂÂ but there are still plenty of reasons to pay attention to Wikipedia.
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Mozilla is trying to weave a new web. Not sure if it matters yet.
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Another type of wiki-fiddler Hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in wiki software packages to establish networks of compromised computers.â¦
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New chapters in the portal's quest for user-generated content.
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Sharepoint is getting an open-source webpart.  This is good for Microsoft and for its customers.  It could be better, though....
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University students are working on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia as part of their degree course.
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Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikia, launched a new project to address what he says are the shortcomings of current search engines. But one analyst said he isn't so sure Wales' efforts do much to improve the current model.
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Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.
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MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and other projects. It&apos;s designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.  MediaWiki 1.3.1 is a bugfix release.   1.3.1 fixes some remaining issues from 1.3.0.  * Watchlist parameters now work with register_globals off * Fixed parsing of ''italics'' and '''bold''' mark-up (again) * Special:Allpages display is more sensible on smaller wikis * Fixed XHTML parsing error in classic skins * Moved pages update watchlist correctly * Fixed rebuildall.php on case-sensitive Unix filesystems * Disabled file cache compression by default due to incompatibility   with output buffer compression (ob_gzhandler) * New magic word PAGENAMEE (URL-escaped version of PAGENAME) * Installation avoids blank username; better message on missing   XML module * $wgWhitelistAccount no longer breaks all logins.   Release notes: http://sf.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=34373&release_id=260607  Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.3.1.tar.gz?download  Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l  Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/  Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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Plus: Geek squad comes to the rescue. [News.com Extra]
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Taking a page from OSS for improving interagency collaboration.
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By Rich Haag, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 18--Five years ago, a Colorado-based company called Neighborhood Link launched a network of free Web sites for more than 500 Charlotte neighborhoods and other civic groups.
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Filthy Linking Rich - Google Releases Desktop Search - Exit Page Statistics Query - 'Industrial Strength White Hat' Cloaking Questions - Content for Adwords - RSS Feeds as a Search Engine Marketing Tool
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By Heck, Mike  WIKIS  Latest offerings get users swapping knowledge quickly  CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS usually won't work as collaboration tools. Although a CMS does ease content creation, the resulting Web sites have rigid navigation and formal publishing workflows.