Internet encyclopedia project

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An internet encyclopedia project is a large database of useful information, accessible via World Wide Web. The idea to build a free encyclopedia using the Internet can be traced at least to the 1993 Interpedia proposal; it was planned as an encyclopedia on the Internet to which everyone could contribute materials. The project never left the planning stage and it was overtaken by the explosion of the World Wide Web, the emergence of high-quality search engines, and the conversion of existing material.

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Wikipedia has opened its online encyclopedia pages to the booming ranks of iPhone users

Wikipedia launches iPhone application

Technology / Software

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Wikipedia said it has released an iPhone application as part of a drive to open the pages of its revered online encyclopedia to the booming ranks of smart phone users.


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Wikipedia testing new method to curb false info

Technology / Internet

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(AP) -- Wikipedia says it is testing a new method for curbing false information on pages devoted to individual people.


Microsoft plans to close its Encarta online encyclopedia

Microsoft closing Encarta online encyclopedia

Technology / Internet

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Microsoft plans to close its Encarta online encyclopedia, which competes in an arena dominated by communally-crafted free Internet reference source Wikipedia.


Wired editor acknowledges lifting Wiki material

Technology / Internet

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work.


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Study suggests doctors could add to Wikipedia

Technology / Internet

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(AP) -- Researchers are suggesting that doctors could be spending more time writing and editing Wikipedia pages on medical topics, despite questions that have been raised about the collaborative online encyclopedia's ...


Online encyclopedia makes life searchable

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One hundred and fifty thousand species down, 1.65 million to go. That is the tally for the online Encyclopedia of Life, an ambitious two-year-old project with the goal of nothing less than documenting in ...


Wikipedia operator gets $500,000 foundation grant

Technology / Internet

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The nonprofit organization that operates the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has received a $500,000 grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its work bringing free educational content ...