HOLD Wikipedia ruled by 'Lord of the Universe'
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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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The on-line collaboration responsible for  Wikipedia plans to build a search engine to rival those of  Google Inc.  and Yahoo Inc. , the founder of  the popular Internet encyclopaedia said on Thursday.
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Plus: Geek squad comes to the rescue. [News.com Extra]
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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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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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(InfoWorld) - Wikia Inc. plans to offer a free online application hosting service in the near future, but has no idea how it will make money from it. The company will launch openserving.com with one hosted application, an open-source content-management platform that it acquired when it bought sports fan-site ArmchairGM LLC last week. Set up by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in 2004, Wikia's goal is to encourage the sharing of information. It hosts Web sites for free, using wiki software to allow its customers and their readers to freely edit the sites. Wikia asks its customers to share their content under a variety of Creative Commons or GNU licenses. "Open source was the beginning. Free culture is what's happening next," Wikia Chief Executive Officer Gil Penchina said Monday, announcing the company's plans at a conference in Paris on the future of social media, Le Web 3. Openserving.com will go further than Wikia's current services, by giving away hosting services and bandwidth, in addition to allowing site creators to keep the advertising revenue generated by the site. "If we give away the bandwidth and the storage, and we get none of the advertising revenue, what's the business model? Well, I don't know yet," Penchina said. The software acquired with ArmchairGM will allow Openserving.com customers to create collaborative publishing sites, combining elements of blogs and wikis. Penchina called for volunteers to help install and maintain other open-source applications on the site. Wikia received a total of $4 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network and individual investors including Marc Andreessen and Mitch Kapor earlier this year, and last week received a second round of investment from Amazon.com Inc. The companies did not disclose the amount of Amazon's investment.
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By NICK WEBSTER IT is the internet encyclopedia that grows by 30 million words a day, a vast pool of knowledge that is expanding so fast it is impossible to keep up.
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Blog: Answers plans to capitalize on search magic of the word 'dictionary' by adding its content to Lexico Publishing properties.
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Taran Rampersad didn't complain when he failed to find anything on his hometown in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Instead, he simply wrote his own entry for San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Wikipedia is unique for an encyclopedia because anybody can add, edit and even erase. And the Wikipedia is just one &#151; albeit the best known &#151; of a growing breed of Internet knowledge-sharing communities called Wikis.
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How do you create an online encyclopedia when few native speakers have access to the Internet?
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A new project called Digital Universe aims to make information on the Web better organized and more authoritative
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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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Google this morning announced a test project it's calling "Knol," which will comprise a collection of authoritative articles on various subjects. The project is currently invitation-only, and represents only a minor threat to Wikipedia, Scott Gilbertson argues.
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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Online encyclopedia  Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in  the past year, making it the top online news and information  destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
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Jimmy Wales invented Wikipedia, and he remains its reigning local deity. Despite that, Wikipedia actually happened because it was allowed to happen. Rather than specifying at the beginning what the rules would be, Wales let the community evolve its own rules, in response to real needs.
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