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...
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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...
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 thi...
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 ...
Colbert Vs. Wikipedia
Get the rest of the story about Wikipedia crap at the end of this video. I love Colbert, but even if he knew about Wikicensorship of Brit Hume's role in covering up Chinagate he wouldn't mention it. Fair use for political criticism.
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 `Semantifyi...
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How to Create a Wikipedia Article
Handle any emergency with Howcast's First Aid app - howc.stExpand 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 gu...
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 aim...
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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 q...
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.
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. Lo...
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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 Wikipedi...
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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 Ri...
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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 Confe...
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