Tag Archives: wikipedia

ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday

I’ll also be post­ing a mes­sage to protest and inform peo­ple about PIPA and SOPA, though I imag­ine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.

Ars Technica – Wikipedia editors voting on plan to “shutter” violent and sexual images

Not a bad plan, it’s a rea­son­able bal­ance between still pro­vid­ing a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of what­ever and mak­ing it eas­ier for peo­ple who don’t want to be “shocked” at the sight of the image.

CNET News – Congressman wants WikiLeaks listed as terrorist org

In short every­body has a reac­tion, over­all mine is Wik­ileaks is a valu­able ser­vice, in no way is it a ter­ror­ist organization.

100,000th Knol Published and No One Cares But Google

Knol is a ridicu­lous scheme by Google to cre­ate a Wikipedia onto it’s own, except one that’s worse. Knol takes the idea that there is actu­ally a sin­gle per­son out there who is an expert on a field and uses them to write an arti­cle on it, and through every­body else going, “Hey, great Knol”