Wikia Gives It All Away
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Free software, free bandwidth, free storage, free computing power -- the only thing missing is a business plan. Not to worry, says Wikia founder Jimmy Wales, "the wisdom of our community will prevail." In Monkey Bites.
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After almost two months of deliberation and voting, the Wikimedia Foundation has now officially launched the Wikinews project in English and German editions. More languages will follow soon. Wikinews aims to be to news media what Wikipedia is to encyclopedias: a free, comprehensive and, eventually, reliable source of information, collaboratively created by volunteers around the planet.  Wikinews explicitly allows original reporting, making it somewhat similar to Indymedia, while adhering to a strict Neutral Point of View policy.    Read on to find out what the Wikimedia community has accomplished so far, what challenges it faces, and how Wikinews can become successful.
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WikyBlog is a scalable CMS/Groupware application with an AJAX enhanced tabbed interface enabling users to view/edit multiple files within the same page.   Version 1.4 adds the Wanted Pages, What Links Here, Orphaned Files and Dead-End Files special pages. Automated tasks have also been introduced to maintain database integrity and maintain Trash. A number of other improvements and bug fixes have also been made.  WikyBlog Home:   http://www.wikyblog.com     Get WikyBlog:   https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148518&package_id=163821     WikyBlog Features:   http://www.wikyblog.com/Help/en/WikyBlog/Features
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When is a cult not a cult? Exclusive Think of it as Wikipediaâs police department hotline. The "encyclopedia anyone can edit" includes a page where you can instantly alert the siteâs brain trust to foul play. Itâs called the "Conflict of Interest Noticeboard." If you suspect someone has rigged the system, using the encyclopedia to push their own agenda, this is where you turn.â¦
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An obscure government website that became an Internet conflagration
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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There are no guarantees in business -- especially when it comes to getting to the top of the ladder. Wired's How To Wiki gives you career-advancement suggestions that don't involve subterfuge and blackmail. But we can't cover everything ... without your help, so please give us your suggestions, too. It's a wiki, you know.
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Don't like your Wikipedia entry? Mr. Know-It-All offers advice on how to set the record straight. By Clive Thompson from Wired magazine.
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Environment contract party - will it have cake? An attempt by a UK cabinet minister to discuss proposed environment policy using a wiki has ended in embarrassment after pranksters made merry at the expense of the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra).â¦
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Conservapedia is the web's go-to reference for conservative Christians, but for everyone else it's one of the biggest laughs on the net. By Michael Calore.
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'An unequalled miasma of debauchery and ignorance' We're delighted to report that Conservapedia - the "conservative encyclopedia you can trust" - is maintaining its hard line on liberal bias.â¦
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Plus: Geek squad comes to the rescue. [News.com Extra]
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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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Rock, molten metal and more rest beneath our feet. In the Wired Wiki.
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And other Cult Horrors... Re: Farewell, Wikipedia?â¦
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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Tycho:  Today's comic is based on a story we saw at Kotaku, but when I went over there to verify the link the story had been removed altogether.  For those of you playing along at home, what that means is that Kotaku