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How to make wikipedia 100% accurate
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Wikia hits top 100 on Quantcast :-)
Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:12:47 AM |
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| Wow, coming on the heels of the great news I got yesterday about our Comscore numbers… Just for fun, here’s a comparison of Wikia (all sites) with Mahalo (all sites). Some of you may know that Jason Calacanis enjoys poking at me and not long ago made a bit of a stir in the blogosphere by [...] | ||
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Wikia up 20%+ in July – 6.5 million US uniques
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:54:09 PM |
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| July was insane - over 6.5 million US uniques, up by 24% over June! | ||
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Wikia Gaming joins Wikia Entertainment in the 1 million article club
Friday, April 03, 2009 7:29:02 PM |
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| Just got some new numbers (thanks Doug and Przemek for putting these together) for Wikia’s growth, especially in gaming and entertainment, traditionally our strongest wikis. Gaming just crossed 1,000,000 and currently with 1,003,977 articles… joining Entertainment (1.1 million articles) in the “over a million” category. The raw breakdown looks like this: [...] | ||
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Update on Wikia – doing more of what’s working
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:00:23 AM |
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| If there is one thing that I’ve learned in my career, it is to do more of what’s working, and less of what’s not. In past 24 months, Wikia.com has seen tremendous expansion. Nielsen recently recognized Wikia.com as the fifth fastest growing member community destination in February 2009: RANK Site Feb 08 Feb 09 % growth 1 Twitter.com 475,000 7,038,000 1382% 2 Zimbio 809,000 2,752,000 240% 3 Facebook 20,043,000 65,704,000 228% 4 Multiply 821,000 2,394,000 192% 5 Wikia 1,381,000 3,758,000 172% source: [...] | ||
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Jimmy Carter: “Obama can change our reputation in ten minutes”
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:45:12 AM |
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| Note: My daughter recently (December 5th, 2008) had the opportunity to conduct an interview with President Jimmy Carter. One of her questions to him was about Obama and ended up being about Obama’s speech today. So I thought I’d post an excerpt. Kira: With the new president elect Barack Obama, what do you think about [...] | ||
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Free software and social networking
Friday, February 29, 2008 7:29:54 AM |
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| Today at Wikia we have released our social networking features for MediaWiki under the GNU GPL 2.0. The best place to see this running live is at Halopedia, our Halo site. I am excited about all the stuff going on in this space. With google’s open social initiative, our work in social search and [...] | ||
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Wikia Search plugin for Firefox
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:57:14 AM |
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| Daniel F. Gass, who signs his emails “15 year old conquering the web” already conquered a part of it since last night, creating a Wikia search plugin for Firefox! Awesome! Thanks, Daniel! Now I wonder what open source toolbars out there might support more functionality… | ||
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OER meeting and 5 continents
Friday, September 14, 2007 11:41:29 PM |
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| I am participating in this fabulous and hopefully historic meeting and realized that I have now met Melissa Hagemann on 5 different continents. I think we both travel too much. | ||
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My birthdate
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:29:39 PM |
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| So, I notified Britannica about what my birth certificate and driver’s license says, but they refused to change their article unless I was willing to send them copies of the actual documentation! Naturally, I refused to do so. Fortunately, an enterpising reporter did his homework and so now for the first time the world has [...] | ||
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Truth in Numbers
Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:17:17 AM |
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| Director Nic Hill is making what looks to be a fabulous film about Wikipedia and Wikipedians worldwide. Truth in Numbers has a wiki at Wikia, and Nic has posted his demo trailer and also his first “vodcast” from the road on his current trip. He just finished up in China and is headed for Korea. [...] | ||
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Varanasi sunrise
Sunday, October 04, 2009 4:36:27 PM |
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| Varanasi sunriseSource: www.flickr.comMy favorite photo from this trip, I think I was just reviewing my old photos and remembered this one:http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimbo_wales/418742559/ | ||
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Jet-Powered Merry-Go-Round
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:44:49 AM |
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| Jet-Powered Merry-Go-RoundSource: www.youtube.comBrooklyn-based arts collective The Madagascar Institute had tested their home-built jet-powered merry-go-round—they'd just never tested it with people on it. So PM's Seth Porges volunteered his life and ... Friday was a great day. I got to say hi to the President of Iceland. But I missed this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjS8btFb9RA - I think I may have made the wrong choice. :-) | ||
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SPACE.com -- Rare Space Object Discovered by High Schooler
Monday, September 28, 2009 10:04:34 AM |
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| SPACE.com -- Rare Space Object Discovered by High SchoolerSource: www.space.comMajor breakthroughs aren't reserved for the professionals in astronomy, as proven by a high school student who recently helped discover a new astronomical object. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080925-student-discovery.html (via Jesse Dylan) | ||
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digitaldaily.allthingsd.com
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:33:52 AM |
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| digitaldaily.allthingsd.comSource: digitaldaily.allthingsd.com I am mentioned favorably in the FCC Chairman's speech on net neutrality. Too bad for him that I don't support his policy proposals.http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090921/net-neutrality-fcc-chairman-julius-genachowskis-speech-in-full/ | ||
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www.wired.com
Monday, September 21, 2009 1:06:02 AM |
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| www.wired.comSource: www.wired.com On the dangers of false positives and statistical assumptions...http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon | ||
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Lessons Learned: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet
Sunday, September 20, 2009 4:43:38 AM |
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| Lessons Learned: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweetSource: www.startuplessonslearned.comIt's been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. ... http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/09/support-startup-founders-visa-with.html | ||
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english.martinvarsavsky.net
Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:31:10 PM |
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| english.martinvarsavsky.netSource: english.martinvarsavsky.net RT Martin Varsavsky Goodbye to Trolls http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/micro/adios-to-trolls.html | ||
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St. Louis Fed: Series: BASE, St. Louis Adjusted Monetary Base
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:50:19 PM |
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| St. Louis Fed: Series: BASE, St. Louis Adjusted Monetary BaseSource: research.stlouisfed.org| Economic Research| EconDISC®| FRED®| GeoFRED®| ALFRED®| ... http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE My brother showed me this graph. It is pretty eye-popping. | ||
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Transparency Chic - WSJ.com
Friday, August 21, 2009 10:45:02 PM |
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| Transparency Chic - WSJ.comSource: online.wsj.comKatherine Mangu-Ward writes that with new programs like RECAP, Harvard University's Stephen Schultze and other computer geeks are making the law more transparent. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361032197709414.html?mod=googlenews_wsj | ||
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Keeping News of David Rohde’s Kidnapping Off Wikipedia - NYTimes.com
Monday, June 29, 2009 12:46:27 PM |
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| Keeping News of David Rohde’s Kidnapping Off Wikipedia - NYTimes.comSource: ow.lyThe New York Times asked Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of Wikipedia, for his help when David Rohde was kidnapped and the news was being posted. I'm really proud of the Wikipedians who made this happen, maybe saved his life: http://ow.ly/g2Av | ||
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The Doctor at Paulo Coelho’s Blog
Friday, June 26, 2009 5:47:51 AM |
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| The Doctor at Paulo Coelho’s BlogSource: paulocoelhoblog.com(Late Sunday I watch Neda’s video. I suspect that I recognize Arash Hejazi, but I prefer not to believe in what I am seeing. I send him and email) http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/06/25/the-doctor/ | ||
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Manhattanhenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:39:18 AM |
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| Manhattanhenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSource: ow.lyManhattanhenge (sometimes referred to as Manhattan Solstice) is a biannual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east-west streets of Manhattan's main street grid. The term is derived from Stonehenge, at which the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices. ... Getting excited about Manhattanhenge - http://ow.ly/a6KB | ||