Bitcoin and other pseudo-currencies are a hot topic right now, and startups are coming up with all sorts of ways to take advantage of the buzz by launching services...
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Wikipedia, TurnItIn Team Up on Copyright
Turnitin has long used Wikipedia as a data source when scouring students' papers for plagiarism, and now it is returning the favor. eSchoolNews reports that TurnItIn and Wikipedia have collaborated on a new bot which...
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Wikipedia Suspends 381 User Accounts for Suspected Fraud, Extortion
Wikipedia's greatest strengths is that anyone can edit it. Conversely, the online encyclopedia's greatest weakness is that anyone can edit it. The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia, revealed on...
Continue readingWikipedia for iOS v4.1.0 Brings New Sharing Option, Improved Search
Wikipedia announced a major update for its iPad and iPhone app today which adds a number of features and tweaks to the layout of the articles (including a couple changes which the...
Continue readingWikipedia Expands Auto-Translate Feature
The foreign language editions of Wikipedia have long proven to be a useful way for me to research background details for posts on this blog, and now more Wikipedia...
Continue readingWikipedia Adds Epub to its eBook Download Options – No More PDF, Yay!
As much as I am online everyday I am still reminded that offline still rules the roost. Wikipedia is accessible from any web browser, but even this knowledge aggregator...
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