Tag Archive | wikipedia
French Intelligence vs Wikimedia
French agency forces removal of Wikipedia entry Wikimedia Foundation elaborates on recent demand by French governmental agency to remove Wikipedia content. ‘As some members of our community are already aware, a disturbing situation has developed involving Wikipedia and a threat by France’s Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur. We would like to be transparent about our […]
90 Unnecessary Medical Tests And Procedures
Patients Should question their MDs with those ‘Unnecessary procedures include using feeding tubes for dementia patients, C-section deliveries for healthy women before 39 weeks of pregnancy, ultrasound tests for ovarian cysts, and CT scans for minor headaches. The list builds on a project initiated last year by the Choosing Wisely campaign, which seeks to trigger […]
Sandy’s Wikipedia Page and Content Forging
Apparently, the Wikipedia scandal last September (Corruption in Wikipedia Confirmed by pochp) didn’t blow but here’s a new one ‘Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He’s also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change…’ […]
The Devil You Don’t Know
The Illusion of Charity Live Aid 2005 was the most successful concert for charity that raised more than 50 million pounds. But aid expert David Rieff argues that the guilt-stricken donations helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,000. Watch how politics and PR people manipulated the charity event The […]
Corruption in Wikipedia Confirmed
Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia I can’t believe Jimmy Wales let this happen. He should have seen this coming when a study revealed that his site is an ‘editorial warzone’ last June. http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/wikipedia-editorial-warzone-says-study-838793 http://pochp.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/wikipedia-an-editorial-warzone/ Much so, more than a year before that, some of Wikipedia’seditors have left the site in protest of its editing […]
Wikipedia an Editorial Warzone
I haven’t experienced this in Wikipedia since it only allows ‘academics’. But I’m a contributor for a wikimedia site and I’m starting to get irritated by volunteer editors. I mean, if more than half of your original piece which you’re sure is acceptable gets edited by different scrutinizers, wouldn’t you be (thanks for the sociologists […]
Get Your Wikipedia Page for $300
Two experts will create one for you if you’re ‘Wiki worthy’ ‘Record producer Erez Safer, 33, and film maker Aaron Wertheimer, 34, spend their spare time creating citation-heavy Wikipedia entries for clients who pay $300 a pop. ‘Wikipedia, part of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, prides itself as a no-cost publicly edited site where thousands of […]
Wikipedia Joins Reddit in ‘SOPA Blackout’
Wikipedia to Go Dark Too in SOPA Protest But with Wikipedia, millions of netizens who occasionally visit the site will actually get a glimpse of what SOPA might probably do. Bravo Jimmy Wales! So make sure you don’t need to look anything up in Wikipedia on Wednesday ‘It’s been speculated, and now it’s confirmed: Wikipedia […]
New Facebook ‘Subscribe’ Makes Stalking Even Easier!
You can be notified every time a specific user takes an action Facebook is in the process of testing a new feature which lets you subscribe to all the actions of a specific user. In other words, you can receive notifications anytime a specific user takes an action on Facebook. It also appears to be […]
Most Searched Queries and Controversial Issues of 2009
Update: This post can now be read at Daily Blog Tips under Technology. Bear in mind that my opinions on this issues are primarily based on my observations and the stats on my weblog: The Jaycee Dugard Case My post (Simple Female Intuition Saved JC Dugard) about this is my most visited although I know […]
