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Weekend tech reading: Wikipedia may be nearing "completion"

Weekend tech reading: Wikipedia may be nearing "completion"
  • Posted October 28, 2012, 1:12 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • For about the last five years, Wikipedia has had trouble getting and keeping new volunteer editors. The foundation behind Wikipedia has made building up the editor base a major goal, and is attacking it from all angles, such as encouraging a culture that is friendlier to newbies...

Wikipedia suffers 2-hour downtime due to cut fiber cables

Wikipedia suffers 2-hour downtime due to cut fiber cables
  • Posted August 7, 2012, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
  • Online encyclopedia Wikipedia suffered an outage around 14:30 GMT for two hours yesterday after two crucial fiber cables close to one of their datacenters in Florida were accidently cut, resulting in the site and its associated services running very sluggish…

Encyclopedia Britannica, Bing partner to supplement answers feature

Encyclopedia Britannica, Bing partner to supplement answers feature
  • Posted June 8, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, The Web
  • Encyclopedia Britannica has partnered with Microsoft to supplement Bing’s answers feature. The collaboration was announced on Bing’s official blog and is billed as a reliable way to quickly find what you are looking for.

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