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Meta is Building an AI to Fact-Check Wikipedia (And You Thought YOUR Job Stank)
Wikipedia, by and large, is a perfectly fine website when it comes to quickly looking up information for a fast answer. In terms of accuracy though, well, given that the website itself makes the clear distinction that it should never be used for any kind of academic purposes… Well, that…
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Wikipedia Struggles To Keep Donald Trump Penis Bandits At Bay
Wikipedia Struggling To Keep Trump Penis Bandits At Bay You may recall that a few days we advised our fans that any enquiries about Donald Trump via Siri should probably be kept to a minimum. Yes, bizarrely almost any enquiry on the President was very much within the NSFW category.…
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Ask Siri How Old Donald Trump Is At Your Peril!
Ask Siri How Old Donald Trump Is At Your Peril! Given that we are in the Thanksgiving period, you might be curious to do a little research on America and perhaps even their current President. Donald Trump is, perhaps, one of the more divisive presidents in recent history. Possibly the…
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Wikipedia Adds Page Preview on Mouseover Feature
Improving Information Navigation in Wikipedia The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has rolled out a new navigation feature to ease information browsing. This is the ‘Page Previews’ which shows a snippet of the article on the link without clicking it. Users simply need to mouseover the link and a small rectangular…
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Gun Debate Wars Conducted By Wikipedia Editors
Wikipedia Warfare! Wikipedia is a good source for nearly accurate information. Jealously guarded by editors that make the Waffen-SS look like the Samaritan Army, those who have ever attempted to correct an article or make changes will have soon witnessed the full wrath of its guardians. Well, it seems that…
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Facebook Recruits Wikipedia to Fight Fake News
Facebook is having an image problem (well, at least one). Specifically, it struggled since the last US election with accusations of facilitating so-called “fake news”. Specifically, such stories tend to be flagged as being fictitious propaganda. Much of this content is traced back to Russia. Though, sometimes it’s just bad…
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Programmer Turns Wikipedia into a Text Adventure Game
Have you ever fallen down a Wikipedia black hole? Before you know it you’re a hundred links deep, many hours later. Indie dev Kevan Davis is surely familiar. Consequently, Davis has gamified the Wiki click addiction. Welcome to Wikipedia: The Text Adventure. Wikipedia: The text adventure The web-based game converts…
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Wikipedia Access Has Been Blocked in Turkey
Access to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey early Saturday morning. Human rights groups have been concerned about increasing crackdowns on free speech in the country, including the 81 journalists jailed last year and the ban appears to be consistent with the government’s efforts to curtail comments critical…
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Burger King Whopper Contains “Medium-Sized Child” in Google Home Ad Failure
It’s common for companies to find new ways of getting ads into your face, but this Burger King Google Home ad certainly didn’t go quite to plan. Adverts are usually short and almost to the point, but sometimes doing that little bit extra, out of the ordinary, increases attention to…
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Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail as “Unreliable” Citation Source
Editors on Wikipedia have voted in favour of a soft ban the Daily Mail as a source for citations on its entries, branding output from the newspaper (specifically, but not exclusively, its website) as “generally unreliable.” While the ban is surprising considering Wikipedia’s acceptance of other sources of concern –…
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Wikiverse Shows What The Universe of Wikipedia Looks Like
Wikipedia is often regarded as the pinnacle of all human knowledge, with people creating and updating articles all over the world. With so much knowledge, how do you see and understand even the titles let alone the content? Well, one clever little extension is hoping to let you view Wikipedia as…
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Website Hopes To Explain Dyslexia
Technology can do wonderful things. From giving someone the ability to walk to letting you read news from anywhere in the world on a device as small as your palm. In the latest move to use technology to help people, a website looks to help explain Dyslexia to people who…
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Wikimedia Director Resigns Following Internal Row Over Search Engine Plans
Lila Tretikov, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation that runs Wikipedia, has resigned following an internal feud over the organisation’s plans to launch its own search engine, known as the Knowledge Engine. Treitkov’s exit follows the departure of James Heilman from the WMF Board of Trustees…
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Is Wikipedia Building its Own Search Engine?
It appears that Wikipedia could be building its own search engine, despite denials from site founder Jimmy Wales. Documents have emerged that suggest that Wikipedia has invested $2.5 million into the Knowledge Engine project, which is described as “a system for discovering reliable and trustworthy information on the Internet,” according…
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Wikipedia Founder Says There’s “No Excuse” Not to Use Encryption
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a major proponent of both freedom and privacy online, as evidenced by him filing a lawsuit against the NSA following the reveal of its mass surveillance program by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has declared that there is “no excuse” for not using internet encryption, whether that is…
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