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The women who orchestrated the second wave of the Women’s Lib movement of the 60s would be none too happy with the way Wikipedia has turned back the clock. I am talking of course, about the distinct lack of women among the editor ranks on the world’s largest and most popular online encyclopaedia. A study [...]
August 24th, 2012 by Anthony West
Jimmy Wales took a break from soliciting donations to announce that Wikipedia has reached the important milestone of publishing its 4 millionth article. The announcement was largely well received by people who value the site and its contribution to democratized knowledge. Since inception Wikipedia has come under fierce criticism from people in academia; many feel [...]
August 2nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Any SEO expert will tell you that ranking on Google’s first page is not the easiest task, and even when you do achieve a top 10 ranking, you can’t get any decent amount of traffic unless you are ranking in the top 3. All the more reason why many SEO experts will be annoyed with [...]
May 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Former pizza delivery guy and self-confessed radical Christian Justin Knapp is no ordinary guy—at least not in the world of online editing. On April 18, Knapp became the very first person to surpass 1 million edits on Wikipedia. The only thing is Jimmy Wales (founder and ever-present donation hog) didn’t do much beyond making a [...]
May 1st, 2012 by Anthony West
The impact that Wikipedia had had on our lives is often not dissected well enough to appreciate. But when you really think about it, Wikipedia is as live-changing, culture-influencing as the web itself. Not only is it the number one source 99% of information seekers go to, it has helped to reshape how we go [...]
April 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
The Encyclopedia Britannica (EB) is dead! And Wikipedia and Microsoft Encarta are the murderous culprits. The once popular printed volume which offered knowledge at your fingertips has had to scale back through lagging sales and just a few weeks ago its publishers announced that they would be pulling it from print. So what happened? Paper [...]
April 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
It looks like Jimmy Wales and his motley crew over at Wikipedia have grown tired of trying to keep his ‘business’ afloat off the backs of donations from people in America. His next stop? Brazil, where Wales and his Wikimedia foundation are looking to gain a foothold through the amassing of over 1 million Portuguese [...]
January 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
These days you can’t visit Wikipedia’s website without seeing Jimmy Wales’ big mug bearing down on you with some request for a ‘donation’. Wikipedia ‘needs your help’ he likes to say. Well, help has come from Sergey Brin, one of Google’s very wealthy co-founders. Brin decided to extend his generosity by donating $500,000 to help [...]
November 23rd, 2011 by Anthony West
Because independent users write and edit the website’s content, many people wonder if Wikipedia is truly a good reference. Wikipedia does require citations from other resources for facts, but it’s common for writers to put their own spin on what they write. Wikipedia also makes a consistent effort, although not always successfully, to monitor the [...]
September 29th, 2011 by Tony Smith
