A study of the social news site’s voting behavior finds that about half of its most popular links died quiet deaths on first submission.
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Articles tagged Wikipedia (29)
Read our Encyclo entry on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a web-based and collaborative encyclopedia project. As of January 2012, Wikipedia has 20 million articles — more than 3.8 million of them in English — which have been written by volunteers from around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia’s tagline is “the free…
March 27, 2013
January 17, 2013
Money from the Knight News Challenge will be used to grow Wikipedia Zero, a project that makes the site more accessible on feature phones.
January 17, 2013
The common thread through several of the eight winners: turning underpowered phones into information engines.
December 18, 2012
A researcher into editing patterns on Wikipedia compares the Connecticut school shooting to other acts of mass violence to see how coverage of breaking news gets done on the site.
March 20, 2012
metaLAB’s Matthew Battles argues that the nature of knowledge is changing in the context of networks.
March 16, 2012
Plus: Kony 2012 and the value of online activism, more News Corp. arrests, SXSW news, and the rest of the week’s big stories in media and tech.
January 20, 2012
Plus: ‘Truth vigilantes’ and the fact-checking movement, and the rest of the week’s big news and ideas in the media and tech worlds.
October 12, 2011
“Failed Wikipedias” suggest successful ways to encourage contribution and collaboration.
October 6, 2011
Why are publishers playing Facebook’s game? What’s in it for them?
October 6, 2011
Protesting a proposed media-muzzling law, Italian Wikipedia goes dark.
October 29, 2010
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