Category Archives: wikis

Barack Obama on Newsweek

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Newsweek brands its entity landing pages "Newsweekopedia": "With Newsweekopedia, we collect all the news coverage, commentary, photography and multimedia stories published by Newsweek over the years on subjects ranging from Abba to Zoology. Each page of this unmatched knowledge resource combines the world-class content with your comments and best coverage from other news sites."

Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Trinity Mirror titles launch wiki for the North-East

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"Trinity Mirror put out a national call to staff to come forward with bright ideas in a bid to find 'the next big thing.' ... The competition was won by web developer Louise Midgley, who works for Trinity's North-East division... [She] has already received a cash prize and ... will also win a future share of any profits from her idea."

Wired: Threat LeveL: Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com

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"Wired.com's Threat Level blog won the 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism on Wednesday for finding a way to let you readers highlight the worst whitewashing of Wikipedia entries by corporations and governments. ... Knight-Batten also awarded $2,000 special distinction awards to Politifact.com and Ushahidi."

Wired: Listening Post: Amazon Takes On Wikipedia With Editable Music Data

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Amazon launches user-editable music database: "To get the ball rolling, Amazon has included music information from its retail site as well as data from the Internet Movie Database and Musicbrainz ... As with Wikipedia, users can edit this information, but not directly. All changes must be vetted by Amazon staff before appearing on the site."

Covering a General Election, Google style

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Google Australia has launched a site to cover that country’s 2007 federal election using many of its existing tools. As TechCrunch reported, the site combines links party-political YouTube videos, a Google Maps mashup containing information on candidates by constituency, “election gadgets” to let users of Google personalised homepage track statements from MPs and Senators, plus [...]

New wiki launched for digital journalists

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Christian Dunn, head of digital news at the Evening Leader in Wrexham, has set up a wiki for digital journalists to gather knowledge and exchange ideas. Unlike blogs or forums, a wiki allows all users to contribute to each page on the site. Dunn is hoping to get other digital journalists to join the site and [...]