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Wikipedia 'foresees virus outbreaks' BBC News, 13 November 2014 [link]http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30021644[/link] Wikipedia page views can predict disease outbreaks nearly a month before official health advice, a team of US scientists says. The Los Alamos National Laboratory team says people are...

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University partnership utilizes Wikipedia in course curriculum by Rose Velazquez, LSU The Reveille, 13 November 2014 [link]http://www.lsureveille.com/daily/university-partnership-utilizes-wikipedia-in-course-curriculum/article_7e311c86-6b98-11e4-b816-ef12f6adfa19.html[/link] Wikipedia, the popular ...

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I notice that several posters here assume that Robert Palmer/BWilkins is still employed by the Canadian Department of National Defence. His LinkedIn states that he was an IT Manager with that Department from 2001 to 2011, and is now: [link]http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/john-palmer/42/989/634[/link] Chi...

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X Factor judge Redfoo apologises for sexist 'art' after Wikipedia page hack by Jenna Clarke, Sidney Morning Herald, 13 November 2014 [link]http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/x-factor-judge-redfoo-apologises-for-sexist-art-after-wikipedia-page-hack-20141113-11m9t6.html[/link] http://www.smh.c...

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Google News has kindly aggregated 68 English-language media reports on this case, which involves a Philippines Senate investigation of a charge of corruption against the Senate's President. Drilon accuser’s raps based on Wikipedia, ‘whispers by Leila B. Salaverria & TJ Burgonio, Inquirer, 14 Novembe...

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Terrorists, criminals and unethical firms exploit ‘right to be forgotten’ – minister RT, 12 November 2014 [link]http://rt.com/uk/204727-terrorists-exploit-law-uk/[/link] Terrorists, criminals and unethical firms are manipulating and exploiting a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling to obscu...

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A Wiki sense of humour by Andy McSmith, The Independent, 12 November 2014 [link]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andy-mcsmiths-diary-tory-meps-group-refuses-to-promote-homosexuality-9857281.html[/link] In the heat of a long dispute over firefighters’ pensions it has emerged that the mi...

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Sir Nigel Shadbolt: Understanding the benefits of social machines #AppsWorld by James Bourne, DeveloperTech, 12 November 2014 [link]http://www.developer-tech.com/news/2014/nov/12/sir-nigel-shadbolt-understanding-benefits-social-machines-appsworld/[/link] [...] A classic example of a social machine ...

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Tim McGraw Plays ‘Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?’ by Sterling Whitaker, Taste of Country, 11 November 2014 [link]http://tasteofcountry.com/tim-mcgraw-wikipedia-fact-or-fiction/[/link] Tim McGraw is one of the most successful musicians of his generation, but the country superstar had to drop out of a s...

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Wikipedia Becomes Its Own Enemy When It Comes To Reliability by Mike Wood, Business to Community, 12 November 2014 [link]http://www.business2community.com/online-marketing/wikipedia-becomes-enemy-comes-reliability-01067009[/link] [...] For those reading this article who know little if anything abou...

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Wikipedia's Greatest Sex Illustrator Is an Anonymous Legend: Seedfeeder by Andy Cush, Gawker, 12 November 2014 [link]http://gawker.com/wikipedias-greatest-sex-illustrator-is-an-anonymous-leg-1640516972[/link] Those with a taste for the kinky are encouraged to check out gonzo pornography, and those ...

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Wikipedia Edits Make Relaxing Music by Lily Hay Newman, Slate, 11 November 2014 [link]http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/11/listen_to_wikipedia_made_by_engineers_stephen_laporte_and_mahmoud_hashemi.html[/link] It seems like Wikipedia editing involves a lot of drama, between eliminating...

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G-Unit Play ‘Wikipedia Fact or Fiction’ (Part 1) The Boombox, 15 October 2014 [link]http://theboombox.com/g-unit-wikipedia-fact-or-fiction-part-1-video/[/link] We already know that the Unit has collectively sold millions of records, gone toe-to-toe with some of rap’s biggest names and has put past ...

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The weirdest pages Wikipedia has ever deleted by Evan Bartlett, The i100, 11 November 2014 [link]http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-weirdest-pages-wikipedia-has-ever-deleted--l1OsOqBtDl[/link] A treasure trove of notably weird Wikipedia articles that had to be deleted are all stored in an ar...

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Mark Emmert’s Wikipedia Page Undergoes Some Timely Edits by Tim Gilbert, Onward State, 11 November 2014 [link]http://onwardstate.com/2014/11/11/mark-emmerts-wikipedia-page-undergoes-some-timely-edits/[/link] [...] Among the transgressions displayed by the NCAA in its latest batch of emails was a kn...

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Open Metalcast Episode #106: Wikipedia Fail by Craig Maloney, Metal Injection, 2014 [link]http://www.metalinjection.net/podcasts/open-metalcast/open-metalcast-episode-106-wikipedia-fail[/link] It's no secret I find writing the introductions to these episodes the hardest part of creating the episode...

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NBC hides tiny Wikipedia articles in its football graphics by John Teti, A.V. Club DC, 11 November 2014 [link]http://www.avclub.com/article/nbc-hides-tiny-wikipedia-articles-its-football-gra-211705[/link] [...] Direct your eyes toward the lines of text near the bottom, though. Although it’s just vi...

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N.D. State University students submit essays required by prank punishment by Sarah Volpenhein, Jamestown Sun, 11 November 2014 [link]http://www.jamestownsun.com/content/nd-state-university-students-submit-essays-required-prank-punishment[/link] Two North Dakota State University students submitted t...

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Correcting Wikipedia on Bartok “Bluebeard’s Castle” by Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 11 November 2014 [link]http://artsblog.dallasnews.com/2014/11/correcting-wikipedia-on-bartok-bluebeards-castle.html/[/link] An eyebrow rose when I read in the Wikipedia article on “Bluebeard’s Castle” that t...

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"Listen to Wikipedia" has another thread on this sites, but the Search function can't locate it for me. Someone turned Wikipedia into a beautiful song by Adam Epstein, Quartz, 11 November 2014 [link]http://qz.com/294781/someone-turned-wikipedia-into-a-beautiful-song/[/link] Everyone’s favorite inter...

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Team taps Wikipedia for flu forecasting data by Nick Paul Taylor, FierceBiotech IT, 10 November 2014 [link]http://www.fiercebiotechit.com/story/team-taps-wikipedia-flu-forecasting-data/2014-11-10[/link] [...] A team from the Los Alamos National Laboratory is the latest to publish details of its mod...

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New app ‘Hash’ attempts to better organize tweets around events by Yoree Koh, The Wall Street Journal, 10 November 2014 [link]http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2014/11/10/new-app-hash-attempts-to-better-organize-tweets-around-events[/link] [...] While over half a billion tweets are sent each day, ...

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Pic: Someone's already updated Fran’s Wikipedia page following last night’s Love/Hate finale (Spoilers) JOE,10 November 2014 [link]http://www.joe.ie/entertainment/pic-someones-already-updated-frans-wikipedia-page-following-last-nights-lovehate-finale-spoilers/474646[/link] [...] You’ve probably hea...

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I don't know if we can trust De Brouwer's conclusions, if he thinks "Encyclopedia Brittannica" is a correct brand name. Walter De Brouwer is a Belgian-born Internet and technology entrepreneur and semiotician. He is the founder and CEO of Scanadu, a NASA Ames Research Center-based company with the ...

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How The People Are Taking Over The World by Walter De Brouwer, Forbers 9 November 2014 [link]http://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2014/11/09/how-the-people-are-taking-over-the-world/[/link] http://blogs-images.forbes.com/techonomy/files/2014/11/earthovermoon11.jpg [...] It was called Earthrise. It...

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Night Time Eiffel Tower Photos Are a Copyright Violation by Ernesto, TorrentFreak, 8 November 2014 [link]http://torrentfreak.com/night-time-eiffel-tower-photos-are-a-copyright-violation-141108/[/link] In several countries architectural structures are protected by copyright. That means you have to a...

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On a slightly different subject, I've never seen anyone try to use Soldier of Fortune magazine as a source in WP. I wonder how that would go over? Osama_bin_Laden Footnotes 16. "The Navy SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden Is: Rob O'Neill From Butte Montana". sofmag.com. Soldier of Fortune Magazine. 11/06/2014...

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As Germany marks fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev warns of new cold war by Philip Oltermann, The Observer, 9 November 2014 [link]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/08/gorbachev-cold-war-threat-berlin-wall-25th-anniversary[/link] [...] As Berliners watch 8,000 balloons being released into t...

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Another Fake Bin Laden Story By Paul Craig Roberts, OpEdNews, 7 November 2014 [link]http://www.opednews.com/articles/Another-Fake-Bin-Laden-Sto-by-Paul-Craig-Roberts-Killed_Osama-Bin-Laden_Pentagon_Propaganda-141107-704.html[/link] RT, one of my favorite news sources, has fallen for a fake story pu...

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In addition to Indonesian Wikipedia's cover-ups of, and lies about, Suharto-era (1967-1998) crimes against humanity and international military aggression, the "facts" contained in the encyclopedia are being critically examined in a series of CNN reports. Di Balik Layar Wikipedia Wikipedia dan Kisah ...

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¿Te apuntas a editar la Wikipedia? Sur Digital, 7 November 2014 [link]http://www.diariosur.es/culturas/201411/07/apuntas-editar-wikipedia-20141107162901.html[/link] Google-translation from Spanish [link]https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fww...

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She also writes testimonials: [link]http://buildbookbuzz.com/[/link] http://buildbookbuzz.com/wp-content/themes/headway-2015/custom/images/2q.png You can buy remaindered copies of her book, Home Life: A Journey Through Rooms and Recollections , published in 1997, here: [link]http://www.amazon.com/Ho...

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A quoi sert l'argent donné à Wikipédia ? by Michaël Szadkowsk, Le Monde, 5 November 2014 [link]http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/11/06/a-quoi-sert-l-argent-donne-a-wikipedia_4518012_4408996.html[/link] Google-translation from French [link]https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&j...

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WikiWash wants to help users see ‘what our defacto archive is up to’ by Kristen Hare, Poynter, 7 November 2014 [link]http://www.poynter.org/mediawire/top-stories/276003/wikiwash-wants-to-help-users-see-what-our-defacto-archive-is-up-to/[/link] What if instead of creating a story, they made a produc...

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Amazon Reveals the Echo, a Siri-Like Home Assistant That Doubles as a DJ by Wilson Rothman, Wall Street Journal, 6 November 2014 [link]http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/11/06/amazon-reveals-the-echo-a-siri-like-home-assistant-that-doubles-as-a-dj/[/link] In a surprise announcement Thurs...

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Lila's non-husband should be along any moment to object to the first word in this thread subject. He got your number, for sure. I may be the author of the hateful thread title, but you are its publisher-- and that makes you, sir, worse than Julius_Streicher . By the way, Wllm still has his "Greg Ko...

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Yeah, that one. The vandalism was only in the article for 7 minutes, so it's impressive the journo picked up on it. The vandal is probably this person: Gracias to Twitter user Michael Duke for pointing out this little Wiki gem Michael Duke ‏@FiredByEveryone All is Vanity 6, Cincinnati, OH [link]htt...

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Recycled today from Harvard Business School: Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? by Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu, Working Knowledge, 7 November 2014 [link]http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7657.html[/link] Author Abstract Which source of information contains greater bias and slant-t...

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The choice of picture in that article leaves a lot to be desired, as well... This one? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Eric_Andr%C3%A9_in_2012.jpg/240px-Eric_Andr%C3%A9_in_2012.jpg Source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/cleftclips/6715690863/ [link]http://www.flickr.com/phot...

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Don’t Trust Wikipedia on Indonesia Time to demilitarize the Wiki Bahasa version by Warren Doull, Asia Sentinel, 6 November 2014 [link]http://www.asiasentinel.com/politics/dont-trust-wikipedia-indonesia/[/link] [...] I have a simpler request, and it goes for Indonesian NGOs and pressure groups also....

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Wikipedia has an entry about comedian Eric Andre’s cock by Brian Abrams, Death and Taxes, 7 November 2014 [link]http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/230782/wikipedia-has-an-entry-about-comedian-eric-andres-cock/[/link] http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/eric-andre-cock-entry-wiki...

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I have mentioned before, on this site, Cory Doctorow's obnoxious invention of the "happy mutant": a new hominid species whose obsessions with comic books, 3D printing, and My Little Pony make it a new master race-- one that is only incidentally melanin-challenged. The essay below examines this neo-a...

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"The rest are men in their twenties and thirties..." Wow, I guess it's official -- I don't edit Wikipedia any more. In another thread on this site (don't make me search for it, please), Jim-Bob is quoted as saying that the average Wikipedia editor is a white male in his twenties with a Ph.D. (from ...

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Georgia State Football Wikipedia Lists Football Stadium as "Paulson North" by Haisten Willis, Underdog Dynasty. 6 November 2014 [link]http://www.underdogdynasty.com/2014/11/6/7167081/georgia-state-football-wikipedia-lists-football-stadium-as-paulson[/link] [...] http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chor...

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Geoffrey Fairchild et al. will apparently be tracking flu-related page views originating in the USA, and are therefore hoping that the next global pandemic will originate in that country. How could they have used their method to track the current Ebola pandemic, which only became WP-view-worthy when...

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List_of_fictional_Jews It is missing main character Jill Kaplan's family in The Pajama Diaries by Terri Libenson . Much of the fictional Jews article consists of works by male authors (and The Pajama Diaries is an example of a work featuring fictional Jews by a female author). The list is in chrono...

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Students add feminist views to Wikipedia by Kelsey Weidmann, RU Daily Targum, 6 November 2014 [link]http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2014/11/students-add-feminist-views-to-wikipedia[/link] Stephen Colbert once joked about how easily Wikipedia could be edited and how quickly those edits could beco...

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US Senator Mitch McConnell's BLP has been mentioned in another thread: [link]http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=112044#p112044[/link] In spite of the efforts of Dominic McDevitt-Parks and the Cato Institute, it's time to block congressional IP ranges again. Congressional prankster calls...

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The 22 October "incident " in Ottawa has its own article: 2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa . A crackhead murdered one of the soldiers standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and ten minutes later was shot dead by the Sergeant-of Arms of the House of Commons. The very first media ...

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Wow. The Italian Wikipedia does not have an article on one of the most famous astronomers in history. Yes, it does: Tycho Brahe Italian Wikipedia [link]http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe[/link] Please read the translation provided before commenting. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commo...

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