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The July 2005 issue of et Cetera included an article titled “Wikipedia and the Disappearing Author” in which I discussed the free, open content, reader-edited Internet encyclopedia known as Wikipedia.org. The site runs on the technology known as “wiki,” which enables any visitor to a wiki site to edit, add to and even delete the content of any page on the site. The phenomenon has spread to businesses, fraternal organizations, schools and even governments, mainly because it offers a low-cost way to share information and keep it up to date.
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Original post by Nora Miller and software by Elliott Back
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Wikis have become such a big part of our information-hungry lives that many of us will soon wonder how on Earth we managed without them. Most people think of wikis purely in encyclopedic terms because of Wikipedia, the user-written and -edited online resource that some people call the best thing to happen to our always-on world. However, if we could put aside the information-foraging aspect of wikis for a second and try to understand the underlying technology that makes them happen, we could tap into their awesome power. You don’t have to have a geek gene to start.
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Original post by Angelo Fernando and software by Elliott Back
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A community of scholars, anonymously working together to build a vast body of knowledge. It sounds like something out of the Middle Ages, but it is actually at the cutting edge of Web 2.0. A recent survey by Hitwise, the Internet ratings firm, revealed that the next generation of Web sites are not as interactive as the hype claims: only 0.16 percent of visits to YouTube, the video-sharing site, are to upload footage, for example, while Flickr, the photo-sharing site, gets a mere 0.2 percent of surfers to post photos.
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Original post by James Forsyth and software by Elliott Back
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Conservatives often decry a liberal bias in the media and elsewhere. Some even see it in some of the Internet’s most popular destinations. Conservapedia.com is a politically bent mimic of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.com, which Conservapedia claims is “six times more liberal than the American public.” Launched last November, Conservapedia has a logo composed of the American flag and labels itself “the trustworthy encyclopedia.” It claims over 9,300 “clean” entries, far less than Wikipedia’s 1.7 million articles in English.
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Original post by Jake Coyle and software by Elliott Back
