KU Exemplar Course: Students disseminating knowledge gained via Wikipedia
Jill Hamilton-Reeves of the KU Department of Dietetics and Nutrition delivers "Students disseminating knowledge gained to a diverse and interested readership via Wikipedia" on Dec. 8, 2014,...
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Senate Tries To Edit Out Word #39;Torture #39; From Wikipedia
Source: https://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica December 17, 2014 - The Twitter bot account, @congressedits, tracks attempts at Wikipedia edits made from inside the US Senate, and it caught...
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Senate Tries To Edit Out Word 'Torture' From Wikipedia - Video
Wikipedia on Wednesday followed in the footsteps of other major online servicesand rolled out its first video looking back over the events of the preceding 12 months.
Titled What did we edit in 2014?, the three-minute videoraces through a selection of Wikipedia pages created or updated over the last year. News junkies will have little trouble recognizing the majority of the events appearing in the piece, though no doubt most will findone or two surprises along the way.
Created by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and edited by long-time Wikipedia contributor Victor Grigas, the video invites viewers to revisit what you read and edited, from the FIFA World Cup to the Indian general elections, and the Ice Bucket Challenge to Ebola in West Africa.
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The foundation said the video was put together on a shoestring budget,adding that ultimately its a celebration ofall the effort that goes into building and maintaining the online encyclopedia.
Longtime Wikipedia contributor Victor Grigas edited the piece over a couple of months using freely licensed photos and videos uploaded by the global Wikipedia community.
Katherine Maher, chief communications officer for the Wikimedia Foundation, described Wikipedia as the largest collaborative knowledge project in human historymade possible by even the tiniest of contributions from people around the world, and invited everyone to enjoy the video, rediscovering2014 in the process.
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Wikipedia looks back on 2014 in its first ever annual video
Its that time of year. Everybodys putting out their year-end round-ups. Sometimes they come in the form of lists. Sometimes theyre videos. Sometimes both.
The Wikimedia Foundation is getting in on the fun this year with its first-ever annual video looking back at the year in Wikipedia edits. The Foundations Katherine Maher writes:
More than anything, it celebrates those who come to Wikipedia to learn and understand the complexity of our world, and those who edit and contribute information so that others might do the same.
In watching the video, you embark on a journey through the world and Wikipedia, revisiting what you read and edited this year. From the FIFA World Cup to the Indian general elections, and the Ice Bucket Challenge to Ebola in West Africa, we follow threads of discovery through Wikipedias vast constellation of knowledge, finding opportunities to contribute along the way. We venture from Sochi to outer space in less than three minutes.
It has a pretty Googley feel to it, doesnt it? Besides the fact that many of the subjects in it are reflective of Googles search trends for the year, the way the actual video is edited reminds me of many of the Google videos Ive seen in the past. Still, I think it will make a nice addition to the annual round-up in years to come.
Speaking of Google meets Wikimedia, Google announced this week that its shutting down its community-driven structured data offering Freebase, and will now support Wikimedias Wikidata project.
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Heres What 2014 Looked Like On Wikipedia
Senate tries to edit out torture from Wikipedia
The Twitter bot account, @congressedits, tracks attempts at Wikipedia edits made from inside the US Senate, and it caught Senate staffers trying to edit out the word torture from the page....
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Senate tries to edit out torture from Wikipedia - Video