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Jimmy Wales had a great idea when he created an online Encyclopedia. After this Internet resource made its mark, however, it began to flounder financially. So Wales asked viewers to help out.
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Encyclopedia Britannica unveiled a new program which allows bloggers to browse their site free. Bloggers can post Britannica articles in their sites in the form of widgets.
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The online encyclopedia under fire for reliability issues could soon be colour-coded for truths, half-truths and outright lies. A computer science professor in California has created software that flags questionable content in Wikipedia entries.
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300 Million page website featuring every known species on earth will also allow "citizen scientists" to add species related data.
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Digital Journal — Does the world need another Wikipedia? One of the online encyclopedia’s co-founders thinks so because his rival site will launch this week.
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Online encyclopedia Wikipedia shuts down for 24 hours, joining other websites in a protest against plans for new US anti-piracy laws.
 Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. said Tuesday that it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time since the sets were originally published more than 200 years ago.
Wikipedia, when it began, was a grand exercise in democracy. The idea was for a giant online encyclopedia in which anyone could post information, and if there were mistakes, others would fix them. Crowdsourcing on a global scale would bring out the truth. But Marcia DiStaso...
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Since 1985, the Britannica has had four parts: the Micropædia, the Macropædia, the Propædia, and a two-volume index.
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