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5 Reasons Why Wikipedia Wins Against Britannica!

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Recently, Britannica has announced that 2012 print edition will be the last edition of Britannica encyclopedia as the consequence of declining sales. The Encyclopedia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. For many decades it …

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How Wikipedia Eliminated Britannica Encylopedia? [Infographic]

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A few days ago Encyclopedia Britannica declared that they were going to stop their printed book sets. Some like me might have felt a tinge of sadness, that such popular reference books were going out of fashion. But this was …

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Encyclopedia Britannica Stops Printed Versions!

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Back in 1995, I saw a movie based on the Baseball. As I live in India, I had no exposure to the game and wanted to look up information on it. Luckily the my school library had a full set …

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Wikipedia to Protest Against SOPA With a Blackout Tomorrow!

Wikipedia to Protest Against SOPA With a Blackout Tomorrow!

The technology world has been buzzing with talks of protests over the past month over SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), a law that is being discussed in the U.S. Another law called Protect IP Act (PIPA) has also many tech …

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Wikipedia to Add “Love” Button for Contributors

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Wikipedia is one of the most widely known and successful open-sourced projects. Hundreds of millions of people use Wikipedia as a source of information. Old styled encyclopedia books are now truly on their way to become rare collectors items. Wikipedia is maintained …

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Join Wikipedia as Campus Ambassador in India [Pune Pilot]

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Wikipedia has recently turned 10 years old and has planned to host over 5o million articles by 2015. Let me confess here, before I turned blogger I did not really follow blogs as much I would end up following Wikipedia …

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Wikipedia plans to host 50 million articles by 2015!

Wikipedia plans to host 50 million articles by 2015!

Certainly I don’t doubt this, do you? With chapters in 270 languages and 30 countries, undoubtedly Wikimedia is not just guessing around with its plans to increase the Wikipedia article base to 50 million…

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Wikipedia Celebrates its 10th Birthday today!

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With celebrations across the World, Wikipedia finally turns 10 today and is set to mark another beginning of free information sharing with full rights to people what they write and see. This model once believed to be a failure has today changed the way people share information across the globe.

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Time to celebrate as Wikipedia turns 10

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I hope you all had a great time celebrating the New Year! What’s more interesting is that your favorite Information guide on the Internet, is very close to its 10th birthday on 15th January, 2011. Still confused? I am talking about none other than Wikipedia.

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Wikify any text instantly with automatic links from Wikipedia

Wikify any text instantly with automatic links from Wikipedia

If you spend a lot of time on Wikipedia you must have come across a text which is inundated with a lot of related links. While using Wikipedia in simple mode can get rid of some of these links, the …

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