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- Important Notice: MSN Encarta to be Discontinued - MSN Encarta
  Posted by Jeff
  Crowdsourced Wikipedia kills MSN Encarta. Interesting.
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- Link by Link - Don’t Like Palin’s Wikipedia Story? Change It
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  The daily page view totals for even well-known candidates are striking. For example, according to a site that tracks the traffic to Wikipedia, the John McCain article had 645,000 page views in June. That month, Barack Obama had 1.35 million page views. Henrik Abelsson, who tracks the traffic, said that on Friday there were 2.4 million page views for Gov. Palin's Wikipedia article.
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- Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks
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  Interesting ... The Washington Post reports on the findings of Cyveillance, a company that 'normally trawls the Internet for data on behalf of clients seeking open source information in advance of a corporate acquisition, an important executive hire, or brand awareness.' Cyveillance decided 'on a lark' to test its methods by monitoring the Wikipedia biographies of Vice-Presidential prospects. The conclusion? If you'd been watching Wikipedia you might have gotten an advance tipoff of Friday's announcement that McCain was selecting Sarah Palin. 'At approximately 5 p.m. ET (Thursday), the company's analysts noticed a spike in the editing traffic to Palin's Wiki page, and that some of the same Wiki users appeared to be making changes to McCain's page.
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- Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales
  Posted by Jeff from SFGate.com
  Former Wikipedia employee Danny Wool is alleging that Wales misused money from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that oversees the site.
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- New tool mines Wikipedia trustworthiness
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  Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.
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- The CIA, FBI and Wikipedia: the question of censorship
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  CIA and FBI computers edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on such hot topics as the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison. Which raises a number of important questions about Wikipedia’s neutrality.
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- The word on Wikipedia: Trust but verify
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  Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales presides over a burgeoning empire. Wikimedia, the site’s host, has expanded into textbooks, republishable content, news, shared media and online project coordination. It all rests on Wikipedia’s reputation as an always available, convenient and reliable repository of the world’s knowledge.
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