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...

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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...

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