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Professor Wikipedia
The funniest video of the year. [Citation needed.] See more at www.collegehumor.com Free CHTV video podcast on iTunes: phobos.apple.com CH Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com Watch this on CHTV and view credits at www.collegehumor.com
The State of Wikipedia by JESS3
Created by JESS3: The State of Wikipedia not only explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia, but it's also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most visited and relied upon sites on the web today. The fourth video in our the "State of" series, JESS3 is proud to release The State of Wikipedia as our first video of 2011. And, as if it weren't good enough, the video features none other than one of the co-founders himself, Jimmy Wales, as the narrator. jess3.com
Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface
What is a wiki? How does information get into Wikipedia in the first place? Who creates it? This short animation introduces viewers to what goes on behind-the-scenes so they can make the best use of what's on the surface. Watch a higher quality version with captioning here: www.lib.ncsu.edu This video was created by North Carolina State University Libraries: www.lib.ncsu.edu Reproduction of the Wikipedia logo and trademark by specific permission of the Wikimedia Foundation granted to NC State University.
Wikiout! English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout
The world's most popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is going on strike on Wednesday. The "knowledge blackout" is aimed at protecting the Internet - and the website's very existence -- from online censorship. The Wikipedia community and the Wikimedia foundation decided on a global blackout of the English version of the website for 24 hours starting at 05:00 UTC on January 18. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com
How to Create a Wikipedia Article
Expand the description and view the text of the steps for this how-to video. Check out Howcast for other do-it-yourself videos from benoviatt and more videos in the General Internet category. You can contribute too! Create your own DIY guide at www.howcast.com or produce your own Howcast spots with the Howcast Filmmakers Program at www.howcast.com Share your expertise on a subject by writing about it for Wikipedia, the world's biggest encyclopedia. This multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia already contains millions of articles, but there's always room for something new. Why not publish something by you? To complete this How-To you will need: Internet access Notable topic Reliable sources Step 1: Have the right topic Before you try to create an article, make sure you have an appropriate topic. Wikipedia wants unbiased, well-sourced information about subjects that are notable enough to appear in an encyclopedia. The site rejects articles that promote or publicize a business; advice -- legal, medical or otherwise; instructional material; travel guides; and news items. Tip: Get ideas for topics by typing WP:RA in the search box; a list of articles requested by others will appear. Step 2: Source your work Make sure you get the information for your article from a credible, reliable source. Material in books and newspapers is generally considered reliable; the musings of bloggers are not. And don't bother writing about yourself; it's considered a conflict of ...
Do You Trust the Information on Wikipedia?
Survey Nation is curious about Wikipedia. This convenient online encyclopedia just might be the best example of a functioning collective conscious on the Internet, but is it accurate? "Do you trust the information on Wikipedia?" is the question we've been asking everyone. While most people seem to take the information on Wikipedia with a grain of salt, it remains one of the Web's most referenced sites. What can Wikipedia tell us about the exchange of information in the 21st century? Survey Nation investigates. Subscribe to Survey Nation and visit us at Survey.com. www.survey.com.
Wikipedia and MediaWiki
Google TechTalks April 28, 2006 Brion Vibber Brion Vibber has worked on MediaWiki and Wikipedia's servers for four years, watching over its frightening growth from thousands to millions of pages, from dozens to thousands of hits per second. ABSTRACT Over four years, MediaWiki has evolved from a quick hack to run a little-known encyclopedia web site to the monster engine behind a heavily-used public site, while maintaining the simplicity needed for an entry-level intranet wiki. Brion reviews past and future directions for Wikipedia's software and hardware, and how modern buzzword technologies could power and simplify the wiki world.
The History of Wikipedia (in two minutes)
This is a short video about how the online information repository Wikipedia came into being. More interesting stuff at: survivingenglish.wordpress.com. ...or follow @SurviveEnglish on Twitter
Wikipedia Leaves GoDaddy Over Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
Wikipedia no longer wants to be hosted by GoDaddy.com because the domain registrar has showed support for the Stop Online Piracy Act which Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales opposes. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. NOTE: TYT was briefly sponsored by GoDaddy.com long before this news broke. While TYT is no longer sponsored by Godaddy some ads are hard-wired at the start of a small number of old YouTube videos. www.huffingtonpost.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com Download the politics or entertainment hour of this TYT episode: goo.gl The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
www.ted.com Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
Wikipedia Vs. Encyclopedia
lockergnome.com - Between Wikipedia and the more traditional encyclopedia, which is better? While there are several different encyclopedias out there to choose from, the argument can certainly be made that the content inside them is more consistent and reliable than what you might find with Wikipedia. Still, Wikipedia has proven reliable in many instances. Not only is it a larger database of information, containing data about millions of subjects in multiple languages, but Wikipedia is also more up-to-date. In many cases, Wikipedia is updated before many news stations catch wind of a breaking story, thanks in part to a dedicated group of volunteer content creators numbering in the thousands. Unfortunately, not everything in Wikipedia (or an encyclopedia for that matter) is very reliable. For example, a simple edit of an article about a person can change their entire life story. Facts are often incorrectly presented or assumed, making it a playground for pranksters that edit profiles. The community is generally very good at reversing these issues, making a prank or false update disappear relatively quickly once the problem has been brought to light. Is Wikipedia better than a traditional encyclopedia? That really depends on what you're searching for. http twitter.com facebook.com
Intelligence in Wikipedia
Google Tech Talks November 11, 2008 ABSTRACT Berners-Lee's vision of the Semantic Web is hindered by a chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a bootstrapping method: creating enough structured data to motivate the development of applications. We believe that autonomously `Semantifying Wikipedia' is the best way to bootstrap. We choose Wikipedia as an initial data source, because it is comprehensive, high-quality, modestly sized, and contains enough manually-derived structure to bootstrap an autonomous, self-supervised process. In this talk I will present our success to date in this endeavor: A novel approach for self-supervised learning of CRF information extractors Automatic construction of a comprehensive ontology via statistical-relational learning Vast improvements in extraction recall through shrinkage over this ontology and retraining The stimulation of a virtuous feedback cycle between communal content creation and information extraction We aim to construct a knowledge base of outstanding size to support inference, automatic question answering, faceted browsing, and potentially to bootstrap the Semantic Web. Speaker: Daniel S. Weld Daniel S. Weld is Thomas J. Cable / WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. After formative education at Phillips Academy, he received bachelor's degrees in both Computer Science and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1982. He landed a Ph.D. from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab ...
The Truth According To Wikipedia
The Truth according to Wikipedia More info on www.vpro.nl (Dutch) Google or Wikipedia? Those of us who search online -- and who doesn't? -- are getting referred more and more to Wikipedia. For the past two years, this free online "encyclopedia of the people" has been topping the lists of the world's most popular websites. But do we really know what we're using? Backlight plunges into the story behind Wikipedia and explores the wonderful world of Web 2.0. Is it a revolution, or pure hype? Director IJsbrand van Veelen goes looking for the truth behind Wikipedia. Only five people are employed by the company, and all its activities are financed by donations and subsidies. The online encyclopedia that everyone can contribute to and revise is now even bigger than the illustrious Encyclopedia Britannica. Does this spell the end for traditional institutions of knowledge such as Britannica? And should we applaud this development as progress or mourn it as a loss? How reliable is Wikipedia? Do "the people" really hold the lease on wisdom? And since when do we believe that information should be free for all? In this film, "Wikipedians," the folks who spend their days writing and editing articles, explain how the online encyclopedia works. In addition, the parties involved discuss Wikipedia's ethics and quality of content. It quickly becomes clear that there are camps of both believers and critics. Wiki's Truth introduces us to the main players in the debate: Jimmy Wales (founder and ...
Wikipedia: Nice People
Why do people contribute to Wikipedia? Some of the volunteer editors behind projects share their reasons. Also available at: commons.wikimedia.org Author: Wikimedia Foundation. Video credits: Directed by Jelly Helm, produced by Noah Stanik, shot by DP Reed Harkness, edited by Sarah Marcus. Music by Matt Carey. Production team, Living Colour. Agency partner Fenton Communications. Freely reusable under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license or the GNU FDL.
Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia Appeal
Dance hit version of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wale's' personal appeal. On iTunes: bit.ly TWITTER twitter.com FACEBOOK apps.facebook.com ITUNES 3.ly MERCH petercoffin.viralprints.com IPHONE APP http ANDROID APP 3.ly
Guillermo Memorizes Wikipedia
Jimmy Kimmel Live - Guillermo Memorizes Wikipedia Jimmy Kimmel Live's YouTube channel features clips and recaps of every episode from the late night TV show on ABC. Subscribe for clips from the monologue, the interviews, and musical performances every day of the week. Watch your favorites parts again, or catch-up on any episodes you may have missed Channel: www.youtube.com Subscribe: www.youtube.com
10 Unusual Wikipedia Entries
10 Quite Unusual Wikipedia Entries Penguins in the army? Jesus's Japanese brother? Here are 10 of the more quirky articles that can be found on Wikipedia. Where else to find All Time 10s... Facebook: ow.ly Twitter: ow.ly Check out a selection of video's highlighting some Alltime10's favourite and interesting people.. @ www.youtube.com
SOPA Debate: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales in Discussion with Copyright Alliance's Sandra Aistars
democracynow.org - Congressional support for a pair of anti-piracy bills is weakening after Wednesday's historic online protest in which thousands of websites went dark for 24 hours. Hollywood film studios, music publishers and major broadcasters support the anti-piracy legislation, saying it aims to stop the piracy of copyrighted material over the internet on websites based outside the United States. "We're talking about sites that are operated and dedicated to piracy and that are really preventing individual creators across the country from having an economic livelihood from their creative pursuits," says Sandra Aistars, Executive Director of the Copyright Alliance, whose members include the Motion Picture Association of America, NBC Universal, Time Warner, Viacom, ASCAP and BMI. But critics say the bills could profoundly change the internet by stifling innovation and investment, hallmarks of the free, open internet. "Wikipedia can be defined as a search engine under these [bills]," says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. "That would mean it would be illegal for Wikipedia to link to a site, even if we are explaining to the public what is going on here. That would become illegal. This is outrageous. It's not acceptable under the First Amendment." Towatch the complete daily, independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, and for the additional information about Democracy Now!, visit www.democracynow.org. FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE Facebook: www ...
Wikipedia blackout sparks debate
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and other popular websites went dark on Wednesday (January 18) as search engine Google blotted its logo as part of protests to stop Internet piracy legislation being considered by the US Congress. The worldwide blackout came with a warning from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales who said, "Students, do your homework early!"
Wikipedia To Protest SOPA With Site Shutdown
A warning to high-school students and undergrads: You may want to dust off your library cards. Wikipedia has announced it will join the sites Reddit and Boing Boing and go offline Jan. 18 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act being debated by Congress. Lobbied by some big media companies and designed to block access to sites containing unauthorized copyright material, SOPA and PIPA have drawn broad opposition online. The White House recently stepped back from supporting the legislation and hinted at a possible veto from President Obama. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, told BBC News, "The bill is so overbroad and so badly written that it's going to impact all kinds of things that, you know, don't have anything to do with stopping piracy." Somebody, quick, add that quote to SOPA's Wiki page.
Wikipedia celebrates 10 years online
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia with an answer for just about every question, is celebrating its tenth birthday. The site boasts more than 400 million users and provides the answers to thousands of questions at the click of a button. But as Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley reports, it is not without its critics.
Wikipedia to RT: SOPA sledgehammer could smash any site on web
Wikipedia is deliberately blacking out its English-language website. It's joined a 24-hour protest against anti-piracy bills making their way through US Congress. For more insight, RT talks to John Davies, the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK, which is the umbrella foundation in charge of Wikipedia. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com
Wikipedia, Reddit blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA
nma.tv To protest SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing and other sites are shutting down for a day on January 18th. The blackout seeks to educate the public about SOPA, which opponents say will "break the internet." As hard as it is to go a whole day without Reddit or the cute animals of the Cheezeburger network, the site participating in the blackout with the biggest impact is likely to be Wikipedia. Tens of millions of people around the world check Wikipedia daily for fast information for free. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales warned students with a tweet "Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday! #sopa." As the backlash against SOPA continues, Congress actually announced that the bill will be shelved. However, activists are adamant that the blackout will go ahead, in case SOPA makes a comeback, either on its own, or as PIPA, or the Protect IP Act.
Loaded: Wikipedia to join Web blackout to protest SOPA
Zappos customers reset passwords after the site's 24 million accounts hacked, Apple is expected to bring interactive textbooks to the iPad, and Wikipedia and other sites will go dark Wednesday in protest of SOPA.
A World Without Wikipedia: For SOPA, Websites Threaten a Midnight Blackout
Read more: to.pbs.org Beginning midnight Wednesday, some major Internet companies could go dark for 24 hours as part of an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Ray Suarez discusses the planned blackout with Ben Huh, the CEO of a participating company, and NBC Universal's Rick Cotton, who supports the legislation as written.
Wikipedia: Great Feeling
Think you need superpowers to contribute to Wikipedia? "Great Feeling" is the final video in our four-part series about Wikimedia editors and projects. View on Wikimedia Commons: bit.ly Author: Wikimedia Foundation. Video credits: Directed by Jelly Helm, produced by Noah Stanik, shot by DP Reed Harkness, edited by Sarah Marcus. Music by Matt Carey. Production team, Living Colour. Agency partner Fenton Communications. Freely reusable under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license or the GNU FDL
Wikipedia Threads the Story
Molly uses Wikipedia to thread this story - keep it going by posting a video response! Story links: Flight 587 Final Passenger List www.guardian.co.uk American Airlines Flight 587 en.wikipedia.org Enrique Wilson en.wikipedia.org Enrique Wilson newyork.yankees.mlb.com The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty sports.espn.go.com Gonzo's Game Winning Hit www.youtube.com 2001 Arizona Diamonbacks Tribute kickyoutube.com 2001 World Series en.wikipedia.org Arizona Diamondbacks en.wikipedia.org Luis Gonzalez en.wikipedia.org Mention of $10000 gum piece: en.wikipedia.org Topps en.wikipedia.org Bazooka Gum en.wikipedia.org Mueller Sports Med www.muellersportsmed.com Quench Gum www.quenchgum.com The gum to savor the longest espn.go.com Mueller Family Gives $1 Million www.education.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison en.wikipedia.org UW Madison researchers unveil brain to twitter interface. www.avclub.com Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin twitter.com Jimmy Wales en.wikipedia.org Music by: Podington Bear podingtonbear.com For more interviews and additional information including images and videos visit http For up to the minute updates, follow us on Twitter! twitter.com twitter.com For behind the scenes pics and more, follow us on Facebook! facebook.com Join us at Rocketboom.com for an ad free experience.
The Wikipedia Game
das whassup the wikipedia game. POST YOUR WIKI TRAIL IN A COMMENT! find mr. doughnut lol and apparently cred to Nadia for creating this game? get from one random article to another random article from just pressing on the links within articles. Rules: - no backpaging - no pressing external inks - only press links that is in the article - write down every link you press on - have fun with it curtains --- meerkats: curtian cloth fur chinchilla south america Africa kalahari desert meerkat fyi i dont use that aim adress, so dont bother. Thanks for watching guys! comment! rate! SUBSCRIBE! twitter.com districtlines.com (Merch store) facebook.com ndtitanladyyt.tumblr.com #NDTitanLady tumblr & tweet me!
Wikipedia founder: SOPA bad for Internet
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales tells CNN's Erin Burnett that SOPA is the wrong way to stop Internet piracy.
What is Wikipedia?
live.pirillo.com - Have you ever used an encyclopedia to start a research project? Slow, inefficient, and often out of date. That's where Wikipedia comes in.
Sin Codificar - Cumbia Gramatical
Porque música es cultura, y las buenas letras enseñan al pueblo... aquí un nuevo hit de la banda que educa y divierte: "Los Wikipedia": Esta es la cumbia, cumbia gramatical analizamos oraciones pa´ que no chamuyes mal... En "Zarpale la lata" es tácito el sujeto y en "Cheto la flasheaste" el sujeto es el Cheto... Si te digo: che gato junté dos vocativos... "rescate chabón" pintó el imperativo... Si grito: "Altas llantas" es oración unimembre y si no aprendés con ésto te la llevás a diciembre... Yo me rescato Presente del Indicativo que yo me rescate Presente del subjuntivo Yo me rescataba del indicativo es Pretérito imperfecto me hubiere rescatado del subjuntivo, es Futuro perfecto... Nada, sorry y too much son adverbios re-caretas de una, un toco y ni a gancho son lo que usamos los berretas... Yo me rescataré futuro imperfecto del Indicativo que yo me rescatara o me rescatase Pretérito imperfecto del subjuntivo Yo me habré rescatado del indicativo, es Futuro perfecto me hubiera o hubiese rescatado del subjuntivo, Pretérito pluscuamperfecto qué complicado es decir pluscuamperfecto...
Wikipedia web blackout in piracy law protest
Wikipedia has joined a host of websites protesting against the proposed US legislation Sopa by going offline for 24 hours.
Sin Codificar - Los Wikipedia - Cumbia Filosófica
Porque música es cultura, y las buenas letras enseñan al pueblo... llega esta nueva banda llamada "Los Wikipedia" con su primer tema: La Cumbia Filosófica... www.facebook.com/sincodificar
Sin Codificar - La Cumbia Matemática
Porque música es cultura, y las buenas letras enseñan al pueblo... llega otro tema de "Los Wikipedia": LA CUMBIA MATEMATICA... Es para vos, Arquímedes careta que usabas letras griegas como gama, alfa y beta... Siempre tené a mano, los ejes cartesianos un número complejo, se encuentra en el plano... Pi pi pi 3,14 Más x más... más menos x más... menos Menos por menos... más Y vos sos un gil... si no lo bailás... Esta cumbia matemática es un poco pragmática baila el ángulo adyacente con los opuestos por el vértice... Resta y división suma y multiplicación de la aritmética son el corazón... Pitágoras vos nunca te quedas quieto Saltás de la mano de Tales de Mileto Con la geometría se mueve mi tía Y con Galileo bailan los más reos... Si querés emociones, sumáte unas fracciones si querés moverte al ritmo, empleá los logaritmos si querés ser prudente, calculá la tangente y si querés pasarla mal, dividí con decimal... Un ángulo agudo, es ménos de 90, 90 perfecto, ángulo recto el obtuso se zarpa, es más de 90, es ángulo llano, si tiene 180, si es ángulo completo... pintó un 360... Existes lo pares, también los impares Están los reales y los naturales Tenés los racionales y los irracionales Están los enteros y también está el cero... Si querés emociones, dividí fracciones si querés moverte al ritmo, calculá los logaritmos si querés ser prudente, empleá la tangente si querés pasarla mal, dividí con decimal...
Eddie Izzard - Wikipedia
Eddie Izzard talks about his love for Wikipedia as well as his frustration at empty pages.
What is New at Wikipedia
Google Tech Talk (more info below) August 25, 2011 Presented by Erik Moeller, VP of Engineering & Product Rob Lanphier, Director of Platform Engineering Alolita Sharma, Director of Features Engineering ABSTRACT Wikipedia is the most comprehensive encyclopedia ever created, a result of the collaboration of hundreds of thousands of people. It's operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit. Learn more about some of the latest developments in wiki technology: a new editing interface for Wikipedia; social features that support collaboration; a new labs and application development infrastructure for volunteers; improved media support; developments in structured data, and more. Wikimedia's tech projects are 100% open source, and we're hoping Google and Wikimedia can learn from each other. ------- License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) creativecommons.org
Wikipedia, Reddit To Shut Down Sites Wednesday To Protest Proposed Stop Online Piracy Act
www.democracynow.org - Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and sixth most visited site in the world, will join websites like the content aggregator Reddit, to "go dark" on Wednesday in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and its companion bill, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), which are currently being debated in Congress. "What these bills propose are new powers for the government — and also for private actors — to create effectively blacklists of sites that allegedly are engaging in some form of online infringement and then force service providers to block access to those sites," says Corynne McSherry, Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "What we would have is a situation where the government and private actors could censor the net." Chief technology officials in the Obama administration have expressed concern about any "legislation that ... undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet." But the bill's main backers, Hollywood movie studios and music publishers, want to stop the theft of their creative content and the bills have widespread bipartisan support. A vote on SOPA is on hold in the House now, as the Senate is still scheduled vote on PIPA next Tuesday. Towatch the complete daily, independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, and for the additional information about Democracy Now!, visit www.democracynow.org. FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: @democracynow Subscribe ...
Keith on Wikipedia
Keith on WikipediaDISCLAIMER: I disable comments for two reasons: 1) I think the video speaks for itself, 2) I do not see the value in someone commenting, "Keith rulz! and I agree with everything he says", and another person commenting "Olbermann the dork needs to take his Groucho Marx eyebrows and leave on a LONG vacation. He is the most pathetic figure on television. Oh...sorry Rosie...the second most pathetic figure". YouTube does doesn't give enough space (500 characters) for intelligent comments or thoughtful dialogue. I believe that we're in this mess because people think that by posting a comment on the internet somewhere, they're civic-minded and making a difference when, in fact, the only thing that makes a difference is commenting where people with power will hear you and fear your removing them from power: Through phone calls and snail mail to your elected officials and marching in the streets.
Frost Over the World - 10 years of Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, talks to Sir David Frost about what the future holds for the world's fifth most popular website, as it celebrates its tenth anniversary. Plus, adventurer and mountaineer Aron Ralston talks about his 127-hour ordeal trapped at the bottom of a canyon in Utah, which has now been made into a Hollywood film.
Webcast: Italy Cruise Ship Sinking; Wikipedia Goes Offline
today's top ABC News headlines: including why Wikipedia will be shutting off its website on January 18th. *Like us: WNNfans.com
How (Much) to Trust Wikipedia
Luca de Alfaro [Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz] Abstract: The Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia: anyone can contribute to its articles simply by clicking on an "edit'' button. The open nature of the Wikipedia has been key to its success, but has a flip side: if anyone can edit, how can readers know whether to trust its content? To help answer this question, we have developed a reputation system for Wikipedia authors, and a trust system for Wikipedia text. Authors gain reputation when their contributions are long-lived, and they lose reputation when their contributions are undone in short order. Each word in the Wikipedia is assigned a value of trust that depends on the reputation of its author, as well as on the reputation of the authors that subsequently revised the text where the word appears. To validate our algorithms, we show that reputation and trust have good predictive value: higher-reputation authors are more likely to give lasting contributions, and higher-trust text is less likely to be edited. The trust can be visualized via an intuitive coloring of the text background. The coloring provides an effective way of spotting attempts to tamper with Wikipedia information. A trust-colored version of the entire English Wikipedia can be browsed at trust.cse.ucsc.edu
How to Edit Wikipedia
The American Society for Surgery of the Hand encourages its members to edit Wikipedia pages related to hand conditions and hand surgery. This video provides a brief overview how how the editing functionality in Wikipedia works. The content is geared toward hand surgeons. Provided by Michael Hausman, MD
May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia
In which Hank revels in his fame and asks for permission to explore the Evil Baby Orphanage
Wikipedia turns 10!
It's the online encyclopedia that's revolutionized the way we share information of the web. We've all accessed one of its 17.5 million articles at one time or another. It's the phenomenon known as Wikipedia and it marks its 10th anniversary on Saturday. Rishabh Gulati brings you this report.
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