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This month
colectiva » Retrofuturs
by karlcow
This series of 10 posters by Stéphane Massa-Bidal (aka Hulk4598 / Rétrofuturs) of the biggest social networking sites is very retro groovy and very fresh.
Zero Geography: Mapping the Geographies of Wikipedia Content
by karlcow
The following maps represent the first stage of a project I am embarking on to map out some of the spatial contours of Wikipedia. Data were obtained from the August 2009 Wikipedia geodata dump organised by user Kolossos. The information was then ported over to a GIS. There are almost half a million geotagged Wikipedia articles (i.e. Wikipedia articles about a place or an event that occurred in a distinct place), so the preparation time alone for the files needed to create these maps was almost a week.
November 2009
WikiMindMap
by ycc2106
& 1 other
WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki's, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not always straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for”.
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October 2009
Faviki - Social bookmarking tool using smart semantic Wikipedia (DBpedia) tags
by ycc2106
Faviki is a social bookmarking tool that lets you use Wikipedia concepts as tags. Faviki allows you to keep your own tags and connect them to common, universal concepts from the world's largest collection of knowledge!
Wikipedia Machine Tags
by karlcow
It occurred to me that Wikipedia could be the basis of an all-purpose machine tag format to describe just about anything in the universe. Wikipedia aspires to have topics on everything, so creating tags associated with Wikipedia topics could be a foolproof way to disambiguate content.
WikiReader | Home
by Spone
WikiReader is an electronic encyclopedia giving physical form to Wikipedia. Now you can take it with you wherever you go.
The Wikipedia Knowledge Dump - La poubelle de Wikipedia ( France Inter ( Un jour sur la toile)
by decembre
& 1 other
Avec plus de 13 millions d'articles, les équipes de Wikipédia sont obligées de faire un peu le mènage. The Wikipedia Knowledge Dump met en ligne les articles susceptibles d'être supprimés sur l'encyclopédie en ligne. Cela va d'un groupe de rock d'ado roumaines, au plus gros sanglier au monde en passant par la glace de l'espace ou la chaise empilable en polypropylène. Des articles souvent farfelus ou kitschs qui pour certains finissent par être sauvés.
September 2009
Okawix - Home page
by ycc2106
“Okawix lets you download the whole content of Wikipedia, with or without images, so that you can browse it offline: Okawix is available in 253 languages and includes sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks).”
August 2009
OpenStreetMap : Une carte géographique libre
by decembre
Demandez à des passants de citer une encyclopédie libre à laquelle chacun peut contribuer, beaucoup vous répondrons « Wikipédia ». Maintenant demandez de citer une carte géographique, libre, et à laquelle chacun peut contribuer, certains vous répondrons OpenStreetMap, OSM pour d’autres.
Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections
by decembre
Web 2.0 technologies offer librarians a great opportunity to enhance the authority of resources that students use on a daily basis, and to push their knowledge and expertise beyond the traditional boundaries of the library. We now consider Wikipedia an essential tool for getting our digital collections out to our users at the point of their information need. We view this as a very low cost way to enhance access to our collections, as well as an effective way to participate in the creation of resources that are used by millions around the world. We will continue to explore how we can take advantage of the opportunities that Web 2.0 technologies offer us when marketing our digital and physical collections.
Wikipedia va modérer ses contributions «people»
by srcmax
Pour éviter tout nouveau dérapage sur la vie (et la mort) de « personnages vivants et connus », l'encyclopédie collaborative validera désormais toute contribution avant publication.
The English language edition of Wikizine
by ycc2106
There are 700 Wikis in hundreds of languages who form the Wikimedia Community. To know what is going on in Wikimedia-world is not easy. That is where Wikizine comes in. It attempts to bring the most important news from the global Wikimedia family for everybody involved with Wikimedia. Wikizine is a newsletter send by email to here subscribers and in addition to that it is also posted on this blog.
July 2009
Faviki - Social bookmarking tool using smart semantic Wikipedia (DBpedia) tags
by Spone
Faviki is a social bookmarking tool that lets you tag bookmarks using Wikipedia concepts as tags.
Faviki lets you keep your own tags and connect them to common, universal concepts from the world's largest collection of knowledge!
Samsung X630
by newandforever
Классический форм-фактор с гладкими линиями тонкого корпуса, удобная клавитура и цветовое решение притягивают внимание
June 2009
Google Translator Toolkit
by ycc2106
& 1 other
* Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, text, Wikipedia articles and knols. * Use previous human translations and machine translation to 'pretranslate' your uploaded documents. * Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to improve the pretranslation. * Invite others (by email) to edit or view your translations. * Edit documents online with whomever you choose. * Download documents to your desktop in their native formats --- Word, OpenOffice, RTF or HTML. * Publish your Wikipedia and knol translations back to Wikipedia or Knol.
Ubuntu (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by tadeufilippini
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Ubuntu (philosophy)
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Nelson Mandela explains the concept of Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a classical African concept. (Dion Forster 2006a:252)[1]
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Meaning
An attempt at a longer definition has been made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999):
“ A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. ”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu further explained Ubuntu as follows (2008):
“ One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity.
We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.
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