<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia seeks UNESCO recognition as world treasure[/b]
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By Kevin J. O'Brien, New York Times News Service BERLIN — In its 10 years of existence, Wikipedia, the global online encyclopedia, has amassed an archive of 18 million entries in 279 languages. It is one of the 10 most popular websites on the Internet. ...
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Is it April Fool's again so soon?
And people wonder why we talk about Wikipedia's community having cult-like features.
It's well worth reading Page 2 of the story, as it shows how silly is Wikipedia's bid for these various honorifics, because the project simply doesn't qualify.
This article led me to another on Deseret News, a fascinating article about Mormonism on Wikipedia. We must have had a thread on that here, but I missed it.
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One of the criteria for inclusion, she said, is that the culture or practice be endangered.
If they keep going as they are, they might qualify in a few years....
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One of the criteria for inclusion, she said, is that the culture or practice be endangered.
If they keep going as they are, they might qualify in a few years....
Here is the article in the New York Times itself. (Is there any reason the Newsfeed didn't pick it up? I can't see it in the media forums.)
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Here is the article in the New York Times itself. (Is there any reason the Newsfeed didn't pick it up? I can't see it in the media forums.)
The article gets it right!
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...said a Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales.
Not "the founder", not "a founder", not even "the co-founder", but "a co-founder". Let this be the new standard, mainstream media!
I hadn't noticed this, but Kim Davis (with a comment from my ol' pal Nicole Ferraro) got into the UNESCO fight -- against Wikipedia.
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Do not let your children use Wikipedia unsupervised.
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