landesbioscience.com - 12/19/2008
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An excellent option for inexperienced users is to write a draft of the article using OpenOffice (version 2.3 or greater). OpenOffice can export content directly in WikiMedia format! Keep in mind that Wikipedia articles are to be targeted at a level that an undergraduate could comprehend. Try to ...
micropersuasion.com - 12/15/2008
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micropersuasion.com —
Although home grown alternatives have been around for
awhile now, Wikipedia recently launched its own official mobile...
site at http://mobile.wikipedia.org/. The site is very basic, which is exactly what mobile users will want it to be. It's also ...
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Wikipedia Launches Official Mobile Site
comoki.com - 12/15/2008
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comoki.com —
Wikipedia Mobile Version 1.0 Read and browse Wikipedia
easily on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With perfectly...
formatted articles, outstanding features and excellent usability, Wikipedia Mobile makes it easy to search and read Wikipedia anywhere, in any ...
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Wikipedia Mobile - Comoki Software
lifehacker.com - 12/16/2008
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Scientific Journal to Authors: Publish in Wikipedia or Perish
ReadWriteWeb —
... for editing just like every other page in the Wikipedia.
As far as we are aware, this is indeed the first time an academic journal has created this kind of explicit link between the academic peer-review process and the Wikipedia. The relationship between academia and the Wikipedia has always been an uneasy one, and it will be interesting to see how the academic community is going to react to this experiment.
Here is an excerpt from RNA Biology's new submission guidelines for its authors:
At least one stub article ...
Wikipedia and Nature
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... I love the RNA Biology journal's new guidelines for submissions, which state that you must submit a Wikipedia article on your research on RNA families before the journal will publish your scholarly article on it: ...
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