75 posts tagged “wikipedia”
2005
Wikipedia: Shirky / (Tufte x Wattenburg) = ? Sparklines for Wikipedia: an outstanding idea.
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day. Wikipedia, English edition turns 4.
Image:Banda Aceh Before and After 2004 Tsunami.jpg (via) Devastating.
2004
Wikipedia new images gallery. Brand new feature, from the 1.4 upgrade.
Some notes on Wikipedia
I’ve been driving myself crazy with coursework over the past couple of weeks, and since it’s always good to have something to take your mind off things I’ve also been spending a fair amount of time lurking around the beautiful Wikipedia. Here are a few things about Wikipedia you may have missed:
[... 509 words]Mozilla Firefox article on Wikipedia. Today’s featured article.
Wikipedia Firefox extension (via) Adds Wiki-markup shortcuts to the context menu.
BBC News Online Wikiproxy (via) Automatically adding Wikipedia links to capitalised words is a brilliant, brilliant idea.
Wikipedia is beautiful. So says Tim Bray, eloquent as always.
Alex Halavais: The Isuzu Experiment (via) 13 deliberate errors introduced to Wikipedia; every single one spotted within hours.
Participatory journalism
Participatory (or citizen) journalism is getting a lot of coverage at the moment, thanks in part to Dan Gillmor’s new book We the Media. For a great example of participatory journalism in action, check out Wikipedia’s outstanding coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics. It’s already a serious competitor to the official site in terms of content, and its wiki nature means it will only get better as the games continue. Hat tip: Gadgetopia.
[... 203 words]Jimmy Wales on battling wiki spam
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia was interviewed recently by the Slashdot community. One of the questions regarded protecting Wikis from spammers:
[... 241 words]World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools. The WikiPedia take on legalised child abduction and imprisonment.
Wikipedia enhancements
I don’t know when it happened, but Wikipedia has a stylish new design in mostly valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional (the front page validates, some of the inside pages do not) with a CSS layout to boot. They even have an option to turn off the single layout table used on their home page. The site seems much easier to navigate now and the organisation of the front page is a masterpiece of information architecture. When you’ve got over 250,000 articles just in the English version providing a useful home page is going to be a challenge, but Wikipedia pulls it off with aplomb.
[... 220 words]2003
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