Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts

Friday, November 9, 2012

Wikipedia is underway with videos

Currently, only 244 articles of Wikipedia have videos, which is why the site is not well known to them, but the truth is that they are there. The problem is that the old Wikipedia PLAYERS only play Ogg video, which is partly right, because to see all kinds of video and YouTube have hundreds of sites. The important thing here is there are many items that could vastly improve by introducing a video on the subject. And it is for this very reason...

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Wikipedia? Already almost "finished"?

If looking for something related to a subject of college or looking for some information, it is likely that the outcome of the search will appear something about Wikipedia. Anyone who wants to can edit Wikipedia and write about computers , on laptops , cell phones or anything that comes to mind. Well, rather, anything that is useful. All this content is free and available in Wikipedia currently has more than 4 million articles in English...

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Wikiweb: Wikiweb watches with a cool design

  Wikiweb application that costs $5 at the App Store, is a new way to look at the Wikipedia. Not only provides a more pleasant to read articles, but also allows us to visualize the large number of connections that exists between two separate articles. If you like to inform you, study or download applications, then Wikiweb is one that can be very helpf...

Friday, July 27, 2012

The 50 most frequently used sources of information on Wikipedia

  A visual applications company took all the data on information sources of the English edition of Wikipedia, and built an infographic that shows what the fifties sites mentioned in the articles of collaborative encyclopedia. The three most accessed sites are books.google.com and web.archive.org, which would provide access to books and websites out of the air, and informative news.bbc.co.uk. Sites like YouTube, NY Times, IMDB, Google, MySpace...

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Russian version of Wikipedia is closed to make an uncensored Network

The Russian version of Wikipedia has decided to close its service for a day in protest of Information Act that promotes the Russian executive. This is a bill that would compromise the freedom of the Internet, creating a list of websites not approved by the Government, which would be no access at home. Governments around the world are trying to create an Internet law. In an attempt to adapt to current needs, governments try to create rules governing...

Close the Russian Wikipedia to protest the Internet law

The Russian version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Tuesday closed its site in one day a protest against what they said were the plans of President Vladimir Putin to create their own version of "Great Wall of China" to block Internet dissidents. Supporters of the amendments of the law of information from Russia, who proposed the ruling party, United Russia, which will be discussed in Parliament on Wednesday, say the changes are necessary...