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Wikipedia to Add Video Options to Articles
mashable.com - 6/19/2009
Wikipedia to Add Video Options to Articles
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Wikipedia is a great knowledge base, containing tons of text and lots of photos, but it’s lacking when it comes to videos, which are, well, quite scarce. This is all going to change in a couple of months, as Wikipedia has big plans for video; both in the sense of having more videos on ...
Blog » Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
vqronline.org - 6/23/2009
Blog » Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
— vqronline.org — In the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion,... $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited ... (more) Blog » Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent ...

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Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade
technologyreview.com - 6/19/2009
Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade
— technologyreview.com — The organization behind Wikipedia is close to launching an editable online video encyclopedia to enhance the current... textual one. The hope is to revolutionize the popular reference site and goad content providers--from public broadcasters to the music ... (more) Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade

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Wikipedia Getting Video within Months
readwriteweb.com - 6/19/2009
Wikipedia Getting Video within Months
— readwriteweb.com — Wikipedia , the free web-based encyclopedia used worldwide, will be adding video to their online repository in... a matter of months. When the new system launches, you'll find a new button labeled "Add Media" on Wikipedia articles. Upon clicking this, ... (more) Wikipedia Getting Video within Months

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Download Squad — ... about the first-wave of "book encyclopedia" killers, the CD and then DVD-ROM based multimedia offerings (like the late Encarta), the video content always sticks out as one of the biggest high points. Having quality video or audio content add context or augmentation to a text article can really make a subject more clear. Of course, having to rely on copyright-free video or public domain works might make it difficult for Wikipedia to achieve those same goals. [via Mashable] Wikipedia to get better video support originally appeared on Download ...

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