It created considerable opposition from Wikipedia.org who clearly felt Wikipedia was too important to be parodied or questioned by artists.
In another example, Google's fun fact asked what the sweetener was in Diet Coke, but its answer provided only a short history of the beverage from Wikipedia.
"It's our policy never to delete anything from Wikipedia, " Fertik says.
In 2005, at the height of the controversy over the site's accuracy, Mr Wales told the BBC that students who copied information from Wikipedia "deserved to get an F grade".
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Other authors in recent years have used Internet material without attribution, including Chris Anderson, whose 2009 book "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" contained passages taken verbatim from Wikipedia.
Doping at the Tour de France from Wikipedia.
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With a single tap, readers can see all passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics that interest them, as well as more detailed descriptions from Wikipedia and Shelfari, Amazon's community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers.
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So remove our names, not just from the German Wikipedia, take us out of all the Wikipedias.
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She figures that kind of interest reflects the growing influence of the Internet, where the power of loosely-structured collective action is proven out everywhere from Twitter and Wikipedia to eBay.
Wikipedia contributors have very limited ways to generate cash or credit from their participation, leaving Wikipedia with the challenge of finding enough folks sufficiently motivated by other payoffs to replace the constantly shrinking supply of insiders.
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The prototype software uses a combination of archive material from the New York Times and data from other websites, including Wikipedia.
Griffith's WikiScanner links publicly available data tracking the IP addresses of Wikipedia's anonymous editors with a registry of companies' IP addresses, allowing users to search for all the Wikipedia changes made from any company.
Many contemporary topics, like the latest in pop culture, or some current public figures, are included in Wikipedia, but missing from Britannica.
With help from Web bigwigs like Google, Wikipedia and Facebook, opponents eventually killed SOPA and a similar piece of legislation in the Senate.
For example, a Bing image search app shows related images, a YouTube app shows trailers related to actors in an image, an Amazon app gives links to purchase MP3s related to a musician in an image, a Netflix app shows related movies that can be watched, Celebuzz includes news about celebrities and Wikipedia shows related entries from the online encyclopedia.
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Last February, Hitwise found that Google traffic to Wikipedia had increased 166% from a year earlier.
For example, in a few minutes, and without even leaving Wikipedia, you can travel from the Tasmanian Devil to Tasmanian devils to Tasmanian tigers to thylacines to convergent evolution.
What ultimately pushed the Internet cause over the top in the piracy battle was supporting fire from nonprofit groups like the foundation behind Wikipedia, which says it didn't coordinate with Google or other companies.
From open-source software to eBay and Wikipedia, new systems of self-regulation are emerging based on openness, constant feedback and the wisdom of crowds.
The project , which is described as "experimental" by Google , could be seen as good news for wiki-heads hoping to make money from the same specialized knowledge they give to Wikipedia for free.
Roth was confused, and so he did what any giant of the American literary scene can do in these circumstances, and wrote a lengthy open letter to Wikipedia in the New Yorker (from which the above quotation is taken).
Up pops celebrity news from more than a hundred sources, IMDB and Wikipedia integration and social feeds when you scan an entertainment show.
The number of successful requests for adminship for the English language Wikipedia, for instance, has fallen from a peak of 408 in 2007 to 52 in 2011.
Wikipedia pages, by comparison, receive more traffic from Google than any Web site other than Myspace or Google's own Google Images, according to Hitwise, a Web analysis group.
That pointer comes from Quora contributor Jimmy Wales, better known as the founder of Wikipedia.
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It is a conference that has attracted some high profile speakers - from the EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes to the President of Estonia to the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
Your finger barely has time to move away from the Return key before the screen is filled with information, starting with the inevitable Wikipedia entry.
Wikipedia names, among others, the Grand Bazaar at Isfahan in Iran that dates from the 10th century.
Wikipedia gives people the chance to post articles which they think are of cultural and social importance from their own countries, which people are encouraged to translate into their own languages.
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