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Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts

2008-10-27

SoundUnwound Wants to be Wikipedia for Music

"SoundUnwound, a new project from Amazon and IMDB, is part music store, part wiki, and designed to be the resource of choice for music fans and audiophiles looking for information on their favorite bands or artists. "

http://www.appscout.com/2008/09/soundunwound_wants_to_be_wikip.php

2008-07-21

Pocket Wikipedia Does Info on the Go


"Pocket Wikipedia is something of a godsend for folks like us. The mobile app offers offline access to some 5,000 articles with 14 million words and 24,000 images all pulled from the popular online encyclopedia. "



http://www.appscout.com/2008/07/pocket_wikipedia_does_info_on.php

2008-07-16

Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online

"While Wikipedia isn’t likely to lose its status as the first place people look for quick answers anytime soon, there are loads of other sites out there that can provide you with information, some of which may even be better and more accurate. Whether you’re researching for a paper or just settling a bet with a friend, here are 100 places you can find all the answers you need quickly and easily online."

http://www.distancedegrees.com/2008/lose-your-wikipedia-crutch-100-places-to-go-for-good-answers-online/

2008-04-27

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

"How have I spent the most recent half-hour of my life? Why, checking Wikipedia stats for pretty much everything and anything that pops into my head, of course. The simply named--and apparently Sweden-based--Wikipedia Article Traffic Statistics doesn't really do much more than its name implies, but honestly, that's plenty."

(review) http://www.appscout.com/2008/03/wikipedia_article_traffic_stat.php

(statistics) http://stats.grok.se/

2007-10-31

WikiPediaVision

Anonymous edits to English Wikipedia (almost) in real-time.

http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html

Veropedia

Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited, The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information.

http://veropedia.com/


2007-09-17

Scholarpedia - peer-reviewed encyclopedia

Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program - MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link.

However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways:

  • Each article is written by an expert (invited or elected by the public).
  • Each article is anonymously peer reviewed to ensure accurate and reliable information.
  • Each article has a curator - typically its author -- who is responsible for its content.
  • Any modification of the article needs to be approved by the curator before it appears in the final, approved version.
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page

2007-09-13

Top 10 Wikipedia Tricks

Without a doubt, Wikipedia is one of the most useful and amazing sources of information on the internet—but chances are you aren't using it to its full potential. Thanks to its freely available content base, lots of Wikipedia-related projects have sprung up that offer easy access to information every which way you need it. Whether you want to do a quick lookup on your mobile phone to settle a debate at the bar, mind map related articles, integrate Wikipedia lookups into your media player and instant messenger or simply need better and quicker search tools, check out our list of top 10 Wikipedia tricks.

http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-wikipedia-tricks-298696.php

2007-09-01

Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages

"We compute the reputation of Wikipedia authors according to how long their contributions last in the Wikipedia. Specifically, authors whose contributions are preserved, or built-upon, gain reputation; authors whose contributions are undone lose reputation."

http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/

2007-07-19

Wiki Mind Map

WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki's, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not allways straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for.

http://www.wikimindmap.org/

2007-04-25

Wikipedia 0.5 available on a CD-ROM

The Wikimedia Foundation and Linterweb announces the release of Wikipedia Version 0.5, a compact disc collection of around 2,000 articles from the English Wikipedia. The project paves the way for many such collections, with larger releases planned in a variety of languages.

http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/site.php