nytimes.com - 3/29/2009
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The user-generated encyclopedia mimics the basic civility, trust and self-organization of a city.
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/31/2009
eweek.com - 4/1/2009
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eweek.com —
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia Search,
a community-based search engine, is officially shutting down. Unlike
Google, whose search relies on algorithms, user ratings and input determine the results ranking in Wikia Search. Before its ...
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Declares Wikia Search Dead
venturebeat.com - 3/31/2009
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venturebeat.com —
Wikipedia has been one of the biggest successes
in the history of the Internet. So has Google.
So on paper it makes some sense that combining the two would result in a service that would also be hugely popular. Unfortunately, that didn’t work ...
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Wales: Poor economy killed Wikia Search
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... Potemkinpedia March 29, 2009 Today's Sunday Times features an interesting essay on Wikipedia by Noam Cohen, Rough Type's Journalist of the Week (my last ...
Bright Lights, Big Edit Wars
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Wikipedia is just like a big city — complete with sleazy guys ogling women.
Bright Lights, Big Edit Wars
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Wikipedia is just like a big city — complete with sleazy guys ogling women.
Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
Bits —
... ” a new history of Wikipedia. “Microsoft never added the resources or brainpower to be anything more than that.” (I wrote about Mr. Lih’s book and the significance of Wikipedia in Sunday’s Times.) As the amount of information available online grew exponentially, it became quaint to purchase DVDs of factual material. While a free, text-oriented project like Wikipedia could not compete with the graphics and design of Encarta, that wasn’t important to consumers. Still, Mr. Lih said something would be lost in the shuttering of Encarta. “Bill Gates bought ...
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