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Saturday, October 11, 2008

The man behind Wikipedia (CNN)	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:58:41 GMT
Jimmy Wales began the successful peer-reviewed encyclopedia Wikipedia in 2001. more...

Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure (Ars Technica)	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:16:31 GMT
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the hugely successful Wikipedia project, is migrating all of its server infrastructure to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. This move reflects the growing viability of Ubuntu for enterprise-scale server deployments. Read More... more...

The MAG: A Wikipedia history of Thanksgiving - Surfin' with Bobby column by Bob Vaillancourt (The Sudbury Star)	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:49 GMT
Happy Thanksgiving. Across Canada, families will be gathering to mark the Thanksgiving weekend, which is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October. [...] more...

Spanish Wikipedia erroneously announces Le Clezio's death (EARTHtimes.org)	Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:16:27 GMT
Madrid - The Spanish edition of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia on Thursday erroneously said French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio had died of a heart attack on hearing that he had won the literature Nobel Prize. On hearing the news, becaus... more...

Italy eyes Gower, warts'n'all (Collie Mail)	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:05:52 GMT
AN UNFLATTERING Wikipedia entry almost scuppered Craig Gower's international rugby ambitions, but Italy coach Nick Mallett will consider promoting the former NRL star to his Test side this season provided he proves his hard-drinking days are behind him. more...

The Wikipedia revolution (Student Life)	Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:27:05 GMT
The simplest online database that could possibly work. That's how programmer Ward Cunningham described the wiki-his idea for a Web site that any viewer could edit. Today, more than a decade after the first such Web site launched, Wikipedia is proving him right. more...

Trinity titles launch 'Wikipedia for the North-East' (holdthefrontpage.co.uk)	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:06:36 GMT
A regional publisher which held a "Dragon's Den" style contest among its staff has launched a new online archive containing "everything you need to know" about its patch. more...

Friday Poll: Which tech product is Joe Biden? (CNET)	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:06:21 GMT
Vote in our Friday Poll: If Senator Joe Biden were a tech product, which would he be: Wikipedia, an iPhone screen protector, a copy machine, or an Energizer bunny? more...

Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu (Slashdot)	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:58:25 GMT
David Gerard writes "Wikimedia, the organization that runs Wikipedia and associated sites, has moved its server infrastructure entirely to Ubuntu 8.04 from a hodge-podge of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and various Fedora versions. 400 servers were involved and the project has been going on for 2 years. (There's also a small amount of OpenSolaris on the backend. All open source!)" Read more of this ... more...

Mahalo Sets Out To Liveblog The World (TechCrunch)	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:07:46 GMT
When Mahalo launched about 16 months ago, we called it a human-powered search engine and began thinking of it as a Google competitor. But it's so-called "guide pages" for topics as diverse as the Boston Marathon and Patriotic Drunk Rednecks provide not only links but quick facts, making Mahalo an editor-driven, Wikipedia competitor as well. And with a new site-wide design launching ... more...