Cancer charity to tidy up Wikipedia

BBC News
Cancer Research UK is turning its specialists loose on the internet to get them to tidy up the online encyclopaedia — Wikipedia. The charity said many people researching the subject are turning to the website. But it said there were problems with …

Their time and money would be better spent improving their own website and services, than wasting it on wikipedia.

I'd like to talk to this Wikipedia thing. How does one get to have a conversation with Wikipedia?

You can say that again. On their front page...

They would be better off talking to Google to make sure that when it comes to cancer (or indeed any medical issue) wikipedia is on page 100 of the search results.

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DigitalJournal.com
Cancer research experts in the UK are to work with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, with an aim to clear up clarity and data accuracy on the disease. Cancer Research UK are a charity which says too many people investigating cancer ...

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Cancer researchers “tidy up” Wikipedia

Macleans.ca
Cuntless people use Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, to answer their questions about cancer. The site had more than 3.5 million page views for cancer-related content in January alone, the BBC reports. But, because anyone can contribute to its pages …

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Toronto Sun
If you search for information about cancer and cancer-related issues online, chances are your first web hit will be Wikipedia. While the online encyclopedia is an incredible resource, it can be written and edited by ...

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Cuntless?

Another oblique reference to the proliferation of males around all things wiki?

(and I LOL'd IRL )

Would never make into Reader's Digest, but a pretty funny news typo all the same. (PS, I think they discovered the error and took the page down. At least I can't find it and the link doesn't work).

It also promised experts years of misery, as they fight with a horde of pimple-faced nerds who are out to have their revenge on academia and any kind of authority. Except whatever "authority" exists between anonymous accounts on Wikipedia, and is gained there only by means of years of site social-climbing, obscessive life-ruining amounts of editing, and a certain amount of subterfuge....

Do you realize how broken the Macleans website is? I've tried three different
URLs for that article, found thru their own searchbox and thru Google--and all
three of them were wrong.....

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Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
Cancer Research UK is turning its specialists loose on the internet to get them to tidy up the online encyclopaedia - Wikipedia. The charity said many people researching the subject are turning to the website. But it said there were problems with ...



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Calgary Sun
If you search for information about cancer and cancer-related issues online, chances are your first web hit will be Wikipedia. While the online encyclopedia is an incredible resource, it can be written and edited by ...



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Winnipeg Sun
If you search for information about cancer and cancer-related issues online, chances are your first web hit will be Wikipedia. While the online encyclopedia is an incredible resource, it can be written and edited by ...



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Edmonton Sun
If you search for information about cancer and cancer-related issues online, chances are your first web hit will be Wikipedia. While the online encyclopedia is an incredible resource, it can be written and edited by ...



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Herald de Paris
By Wire News Sources on April 4, 2011 Cancer Research UK is turning its specialists loose on the internet to get them to tidy up the online encyclopaedia – Wikipedia. The charity said many people researching the subject are turning to the website. ...



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AccuraCast
Wikipedia is known to be one of the most informative sites on a wide range of subjects, it has severe limitations and drawbacks. One of the major drawbacks of this site is that anyone can contribute to it on any topic. Due to this, the information is ...

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London Free Press
If you search for information about cancer and cancer-related issues online, chances are your first web hit will be Wikipedia. While the online encyclopedia is an incredible resource, it can be written and edited by ...

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New Scientist
A CHARITY has unleashed a legion of experts on Wikipedia, where - like a swarm of antibodies assailing a tumour - they will seek out and edit spurious entries on cancer. When you search for information about cancer online, Wikipedia entries usually ...

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