TechSpot

DECEMBER 28, 2020

According to Wikipedia’s annual list of the most-popular English articles, seven of the top 10 Wikipedia articles of 2020 were about either the pandemic or the election. Topping the list was the entry for “Covid-19 pandemic” which has amassed more than 83 million pageviews (as of December 15, 2020).

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

The Wikimedia Foundation has issued a statement supporting Russian Wikipedia volunteers after a censorship demand from internet regulators. As ever, Wikipedia is an important source of reliable, factual information in this crisis. As Input notes , Russian authorities have sent a number of complaints about Wikipedia pages in the past.

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TechSpot

JULY 31, 2024

Read Entire Article Dark mode bested other proposals such as the ability to allow citations to be edited in the references section with VisualEditor, showing categories on the mobile site for everyone, and enabling notifications for user page edits.

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TechSpot

MARCH 1, 2024

The articles started appearing in November 2022 with the byline "CNET Money Staff." Read Entire Article There was plenty of furor last year over Futurism's report that exposed CNET's use of generative AI in some finance-related pieces. That might sound like it was created by humans, but the content was AI-generated, as illustrated.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To put that into perspective, the attack generated more requests than the total number of articles viewed on Wikipedia for the entire month of September. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The list of Doom ports on Wikipedia should now be updated with a brand-new entry. Read Entire Article The recently unveiled doomgpu project aims to run the forefather of modern shooters "almost" entirely on the GPU, requiring a somewhat complex software setup and a Linux operating system to get the job done.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

The Wikimedia Foundation is creating a new paid service for companies that draw on Wikipedia data. The foundation announced the news today via an article in Wired , and it’s planning to launch later in 2021. Wikimedia Enterprise , as it’s called, won’t change how current Wikipedia services work.

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TechSpot

MAY 29, 2023

Read Entire Article For a few years now, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been sending takedown requests to Google for the company to remove YouTube ripping sites, which allow, among other things, audio to be ripped from YouTube videos and saved as music files.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Health crises such as the recent outbreak of coronavirus add a heightened level of urgency to the work that Wikipedia does on a daily basis, and so Marketplace ’s Molly Wood sat down with Katherine Maher, chief executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation , to talk about the challenges of misinformation and the future.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

It might be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible place to reach hungry learners and join a community of dedicated researchers who care deeply about making knowledge accessible to everyone. This isn't rocket science, but it's surprising how few museums have gotten involved with Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to it.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

takes a distant approach A lot of the movie contains archival images and video of Maron, but it uses these to explain various highlights (and low points) across his life much like a Wikipedia article might. For the most part, it only captures Maron as he wants to be seen. It isn't a film of inquiry so much as simply observation.

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NetWits

MARCH 10, 2012

According to Wikipedia … “Content marketing is an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation and sharing of content in order to engage current and potential constituent bases. Up from roughly 50% in the previous year. What’s content marketing?

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TechSpot

AUGUST 15, 2023

Read Entire Article The Interfax news agency reported in July that Reddit was facing its first-ever fine from Russia after it failed to remove content that Moscow said discredits the Russian army.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. On Wikipedia synergy is defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. 2) To tap into the power of synergy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. On Wikipedia synergy is defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. 2) To tap into the power of synergy.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 25, 2009

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format (from Wikipedia ). Ideaware has an outstanding article on how to harness RSS to benefit your information needs. I would recommend reading it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 21, 2011

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. Sony has it’s own reader and format, although, like the Nook and the Kindle, can read a variety of formats. I won’t go into exhaustive detail here on the wide variety of readers and formats. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Article raters have the option of self-identifying as a subject matter expert for whatever article they rate."

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009.

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Care2

JULY 28, 2009

Just recently the National Institute of Health launched a new initiative to encourage their scientists to edit or start new Wikipedia entries on their area of expertise to ensure that the correct information on health issues is cited. “Wikipedia articles (there are more than 2.9 This got me thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

Shel Israel, Twitterville Wikipedia Article on Twitter. My first Tweet: October 24, 2006 According to the TwitterFacts Blog , the first tweets of Twitter were sent three years ago today. I started using it 6 months after, but I didn't truly adopt the tool until 6 months later. What and when was your first tweet?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo.

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? ” And in a related article, the Chronicle discussed the challenge faced by the ALS Association in dealing with 2.4 Discussion and debate. It’s true – Mashable reported this amazing data milestone in September. million new donors.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

It can be used for tasks such as providing customer support, writing articles, translating languages, generating creative content, and much more. Articles I consulted that were written just months ago, are already out of date. Bard has the potential to be a very useful tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.). Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? I wrote this post back in 2005, and it is the most popular in 2008! 2) Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on July 27th. 3) No More Custom CMS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google is updating its search results with a major new feature: an “about this result” menu that will let you pull up information from Wikipedia about a website in your search results, making it easier to vet sites that you’re not familiar with.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

clipping articles and links extremely easy. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Large sites such as Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Amazon, Home Depot and Target have something the rest of us don’t — they’ve got years of built-up Google trust signals. Your time is probably better spent building your product or helping customers than on planning hundreds of blog articles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

clipping articles and links extremely easy. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

“The Wikipedia article on George Clooney is way longer than the one on 911,” he noted. Why can’t I just press a button and get an ambulance? And then it sparks this curiosity,” Martin said. He sought knowledge, but for such a critical system, information was sparse.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Data Collection The FRMT dataset consists of partial English Wikipedia articles, sourced from the Wiki40b dataset, that have been translated by paid, professional translators into different regional varieties of Portuguese and Mandarin. The same process was carried out independently for Mandarin.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content. Building a Wiki.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This article will provide a brief overview of scaling in AI over the past years. You can see this rapid growth in the chart, shown by the purple line extending from the start of 2010 to October 2024, the latest data point as I write this article. Read the original article. This approach has worked surprisingly well so far.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

clipping articles and links extremely easy. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Update January 10th, 3:44PM ET: Shortly after this article was published, the extension was made unavailable from the Chrome Web Store. The original article continues below. I had decent luck testing it out — it worked on YouTube, Twitch, SoundCloud, and even Wikipedia. Shazam is available in yet another place. Image: Shazam.

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