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Report claims Wikipedia losing editors in droves
(PhysOrg.com) -- The findings of a Spanish study claiming that Wikipedia's editors are leaving at an alarming rate have been refuted by the Wikimedia Foundation and by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.
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SBU study finds informal awards contribute to higher Wikipedia participation
When Stony Brook University Sociology Professor Arnout van de Rijt and graduate student Michael Restivo decided to find out what makes Wikipedia work, they knew they faced quite a challenge. After all, neither ...
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Crowds create Wikipedia-style maps of the world
When Benjamin Gleitzman moved from New York to the San Francisco Bay area, he used a talking turn-by-turn driving app to guide him across the country. In the middle of Wyoming, the voice told him to turn left ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Teach your robot well (Georgia Tech shows how)
Within a decade, personal robots could become as common in U.S. homes as any other major appliance, and many if not most of these machines will be able to perform innumerable tasks not explicitly imagined by their manufacturers. ...
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Exhibit shows Pompeian life before Vesuvius' wrath
As doomsdays go, few can top Pompeii’s. The volcanic cataclysm of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. buried the vibrant city and many thousands of its residents under layers of ash and rock several feet thick. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Wikipedia editors question site's blackout
Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Crowd mentality
Do you know what the price of gas will be in six months? How about the extent of the expected U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan by year’s end? As an individual, predicting such things with any degree ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Wikipedia says it is losing contributors
(AP) -- Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit its entries, says it is losing contributors.
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Scientists build Parkinson's disease in a dish to study cells' death
Until now, there have been no witnesses to the death of brain cells in people with Parkinson's disease. And like any murder mystery, this has slowed the search for the killer.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Google's citizen cartographers map out the world
Google on Thursday revealed that an army of citizen cartographers is behind its widely used mapping service, helping the Internet search giant chart the world, including often inaccessible places.
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Bloggers join hands to create Japan 'Quakebook'
Inspired by a desire to help victims of Japan's deadly earthquake, a group of bloggers and writers have come together through the Internet to create a book of stories about the disaster.
Mar 29, 2011 |
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