The news that New Yorker music writer Sasha Frere-Jones has joined the crowdsourced annotation site Genius has highlighted the ambitions of the service, which wants to help experts edit the entire internet…
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Google is shutting down its Freebase knowledge base
Google announced Tuesday that the company is shutting down Freebase, the crowdsourced knowledge base it acquired in 2010 when it bought Metaweb.…
Read MoreOnly 0.12 percent of all Wikipedia articles contain videos
There are millions of articles on Wikipedia, but less than 6000 contain a video. That's despite long-running efforts to get more video onto Wikipedia.…
Read MoreWikipedia lands on Android Wear with a unique way to navigate
Even if you don't have a desire to read Wikipedia entries on a smartwatch, a new Wikipedia app for Android Wear has a few new ideas about the best way to browse on a tiny screen.…
Read MoreWikipedia’s new apps are good for you, but they’re even better for the developing world
Wikipedia released slick new apps for iOS and Android last week with features that will end up being very useful for first-time smartphone owners in developing nations.…
Read MoreGrasswire founder Austen Allred is trying to build a Wikipedia-style platform for real-time news
Grasswire's founder says he launched the crowdsourced breaking-news service because he believes the power of the crowd to generate and curate news is a much stronger force for good than many people -- including professional journalists -- give it credit for…
Read MoreWhy the rise of sites devoted to explanatory journalism is a trend worth celebrating
An increasing number of new-media startups -- and even new projects by existing media outlets -- are aimed at bringing context, background and analysis to the news instead of just trying to be the first to report something, and that's a very beneficial development…
Read MoreWikipedia chief Wales becomes co-chair of UK carrier The People’s Operator
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has gone into the mobile carrier business, buying a stake in and becoming co-chair of The People’s Operator.…
Read MoreWikimedia is considering support for H.264 video codec to boost video on Wikipedia
Wikipedia has traditionally only accepted open media formats. But now it's considering a change in tune to finally get more video contributions.…
Read MoreSee a Wikipedia photographer’s Kickstarter campaign for an online video game museum
A Wikipedia photographer is raising money to create a free online archive of all game hardware.…
Read MoreThe decline of Wikipedia
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ It’s no secret that the community behind Wikipedia is insular, methodical and bureaucratic. But the high barriers of entry that Wikipedians…
Read MoreThe battle to destroy Wikipedia’s biggest sockpuppet army
The battle to destroy Wikipedia’s biggest sockpuppet army Creating a reliable and well-cited knowledge source on the backs of an open and…
Read MoreHow big is Wikipedia, anyway?
If you could fit Wikipedia into a library, how big would it be? Actually, pretty big.…
Read MoreThis analysis of Wikipedia controversies is really cool and a little sad
Researchers have determined the most-controversial Wikipedia articles and topics across 10 different languages, and the results might surprise you. Religion, politics and war? Of course. But professional wrestling?…
Read MoreWikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you
The Wikimedia Foundation's first major new project in 7 years is now feeding the biggest project in that stable, Wikipedia itself. But anyone can take structured data from Wikidata, due to its open license.…
Read MoreWith new HTML5 player, is video finally coming to Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is getting a new HTML5-based video player that will make it easier to add video clips to the millions of articles on the site. Of course, Wikipedia has been working on incorporating video since 2008. So why has it been taking so long?…
Read MoreCould we use open-source tools to improve politics?
Open-source principles have helped create a host of useful software, including the Linux operating system and the crowd-powered resource that is Wikipedia -- but could the same approach be used to open up the process of producing government legislation? Clay Shirky argues that it could.…
Read MoreHere’s what Wikipedia looks like over time and place
When you mix a researcher, a massive online encyclopedia and a supercomputer, the result is a collection of insights and visualizations into what Wikipedia looks like mapped across time and space. It looks a lot like how our history books might look merged and graphed.…
Read MoreVisting Wales? Bring your phone to the first Wikipedia Town
Planning a trip to Wales anytime soon? If so, put the town of Monmouth on your itinerary and be sure to bring your phone. On May 19, Monmouth officially becomes the world's first Wikipedia Town and you'll need your handset with you for the full tour.…
Read MoreCan Quora build a for-profit version of Wikipedia?
The $50-million funding round that Quora recently closed has raised some eyebrows. Is this just another example of a bubble-style atmosphere in Silicon Valley's venture capital community, or is the crowdsourced question-and-answer site really onto something that could be a multibillion-dollar idea?…
Read MoreJournalism: Dying by a thousand cuts, or being reinvented?
When they think about competition, many traditional outlets still seem to look mostly at media players such as the Huffington Post or Buzzfeed. But the reality is that much of what is competing with journalism in the digital world are things we barely recognize as journalism.…
Read MoreEncyclopedias are like journalism: It’s better when they are open
It's tempting to get nostalgic about the disappearance of the Encyclopedia Britannica's print edition after two centuries, but as we have found with journalism, knowledge building of all kinds gets better when there are more people involved. It may be chaotic, but the result is superior.…
Read More4 reasons you will want the Wikipedia for Android app
Wikipedia's website may have been dark yesterday in protest of SOPA, but now there is a new official Wikipedia app for Android 2.2 and up devices. You could use the mobile web for Wikipedia, but four key features make this app worth the download.…
Read MoreTech Industry Breaks Back Of SOPA As Republicans Jump Ship On Black-out Day
The furor over controversial anti-piracy legislation reached a climax on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers began disavowing the Stop Online……
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