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It's one of the most popular websites today, with about 40 million visitors each month, but should Wikipedia be treated with the same amount of reverence as the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall of China are? Jimmy Wales, who founded the online ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia wants a spot on World Heritage List[/b]
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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 Web sites on the Internet. But is the volunteer-driven data depository an ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia seeks UNESCO recognition as world treasure[/b]
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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. But is it an endangered world cultural treasure ...

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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. But is it an endangered world cultural treasure ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia's Bid for Treasure Status[/b]
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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 Web sites on the Internet. But is it an endangered world cultural treasure ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Petition Seeks World Heritage Status[/b]
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Wikipedia gets 40 million visitors a month, is listed as one of the top ten most-visited Web sites, and has archived more than 18 million entries. Do the strides the site has made in digitally archiving information mean it should be granted status as a ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Is [b]Wikipedia A World Cultural Repository?[/b]
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Boasting more than 18 million entries in 279 languages, Wikipedia is arguably the largest store of human knowledge in the history of mankind. In its first decade, the digital encyclopedia has done more to challenge the way we think ...

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By Design Taxi It's one of the most popular websites today, with about 40 million visitors each month, but should Wikipedia be treated with the same amount of reverence as the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall of China are? Jimmy Wales, who founded the ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Is [b]Wikipedia As Important As The Great Pyramids?[/b]
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Wikipedia is one of the most important websites on the internet. It's also one of the most self-important. Now, Wikipedians are trying to get the site listed alongside the Grand Canyon and the Pyramids on the ...

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by SodaHead News Posted May 23, 2011 23:55:39 (just now) Wikipedia is launching a petition to get itself listed as a UN World Heritage site alongside international treasures like the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall of China. No this is not a joke! ...

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by SodaHead News Posted May 23, 2011 23:55:39 (16 minutes ago) Wikipedia is launching a petition to get itself listed as a UN World Heritage site alongside international treasures like the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall of China. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia seeks UNESCO status[/b]
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By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN The New York Times 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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The problem is that to be included on the World Heritage List alongside the Great Wall of China, Wikipedia must be found “to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius,” which it’s not. Now, we like dorking around on Wikipedia as much as the next person. And Wikipedia’s startlingly complete entry on “The Muppets” is a masterpiece of… something. We would all be worse off without Wikipedia, for sure.

But Wikipedia resembles less the masterpiece of a genius than the fixation of an idiot savant.
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia seeks global heritage tag[/b]
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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 Web sites on the Internet. But is the volunteer-driven data depository an ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia wants to be named as a world heritage site[/b]
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The fake penis experts at Wikipedia are convinced that they are so important they should be preserved for eternity by UNESCO as one of the most splendid examples of humanity and nature. Wikipedia is applying to UNESCO to earn a spot on one of the world ...



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia seeks World Heritage Site status[/b]
Telegraph.co.uk
Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that can be edited by anybody, has launched a campaign to be listed as a World Heritage Site as part of its 10th birthday celebrations. By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent 1:23PM BST 26 May 2011 The ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia wants to be a great wonder of the world[/b]
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Wikipedia has begun the petitioning process to UNESCO to be listed on one of its World Heritage Lists. This would place it alongside such wonders as the Great Wall of China, the pyramids and the Great Barrier Reef. ...



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Lobbies UN To Be On It's World Heritage List[/b]
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It's been 10 years since Wikipedia came into existence. It launched with a wide ranging and ambitious idea that it would be a place where humanity could "share in the sum of all knowledge." Now, a German branch of Wikimedia, ...

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It's been 10 years since Wikipedia came into existence. It launched with a wide ranging and ambitious idea that it would be a place where humanity could "share in the sum of all knowledge." Now, a German branch of Wikimedia, the non-profit that runs ...

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Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that can be edited by anybody, has launched a campaign to be listed as a World Heritage Site as part of its 10th birthday celebrations. The non-profit organisation behind the site, Wikimedia, has opened a petition ...



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BANGALORE, INDIA: Over 18 million entries in 279 languages, Wikipedia has no doubt redefined the concept of knowledge exchange in the digital age. And now this online encyclopedia, which could be the world's biggest repository of human knowledge, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia aims to become UNESCO's first digital World Cultural Heritage Site[/b]
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Non-profit organisation Wikimedia has opened an online petition to garner support of people across the world for getting the open source site listed among UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In the online petition (https://wke.wikimedia.de/wke/Main_Page), ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Vies for UNESCO Status[/b]
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by The Mark Newsroom The online, crowd-sourced encyclopedia, now a decade old, is making the case that it's worthy of the vaunted UN designation. Should the UN add Wikipedia to its registry of World Cultural Heritage Sites? ...

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