From The Guardian: What happens if you map every geotagged Wikipedia article – and then analyse it for language use? A team of Oxford University researchers has found out. [Clip] Mark Graham and the team at the Oxford Internet Institute (who’ve mapped zombies and every geotagged picture on Flickr) decided to find out as part […]
New comparative study to re-examine the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia
Filed by on November 2, 2011
From the Wikimedia Blog: The Wikimedia Foundation has commissioned a new small-scale study to examine the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia articles. This study, currently being undertaken by Epic, a UK-based e-learning company, and Oxford University, employs greater rigor than the Nature study, involves academics and scholars, and will examine more than just English language […]
From the NY Public Library Blog: "Wikipedia! The Musical! A Review!"
Filed by on October 25, 2011
From a NYPL Blog Post by Bob Kosovsky, Library for the Performing Arts, Music Division: On October 22, “Wikipedia! The Musical!” was staged at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Despite its whimsical name, it was not really a musical but an editathon — a chance to edit Wikipedia with a group of […]
New from Wolfram|Alpha: Compute the Cost of Living Today
Filed by on October 21, 2011
From the W|A Blog: We’ve blogged before about Wolfram|Alpha’s powerful relocation calculator, which has turned out to be one of our more popular—and practical—features. Our last round of enhancements added information about broad topics like population, home sale prices, unemployment rates, and more; now we’ve added more detail to the core cost-of-living categories, so you […]
