One of my own first forays into understanding the sexism of the Wikipedia community, and learning how it could right itself, was back in 2005.
But as the Wikipedia community grows larger, it has to be stringent about who to trust on a site that sees about 6 billion views a month.
Doing so, we believe, will augment a timely campaign that will benefit the entire public relations and corporate communications industry, while helping to establish better relationships with the Wikipedia community, which clearly has an influential role in modern research for people of all professions.
The Teahouse is a community gathering spot on Wikipedia for newcomers (of all genders) to ask questions and get help with problems they might be having.
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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Mistakes and vandalism are common on Wikipedia, but anarchy is tolerated because the community polices itself.
It counts HBO, Paramount, Zappos, Harvard University, Wikipedia and NASA among its clients, and its development community boasts 40, 000 members.
So long as Wikipedia treads carefully, it will be able to maintain its community for a long while to come.
Regular Dude is an Internet Meme Rock Star hailed on the video-sharing community, heralded on humor site FunnyOrDie.com and doubtlessly destined for his very own Wikipedia entry.
Joe Decker, a Wikipedia admin for almost 2 years, points out that there are other larger, more difficult issues that the community has to tackle, including how to cope with the quickly decreasing number of unwritten subject material.
The Web-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia and the Internet browser Mozilla Firefox are just two of the products whose development relies upon the contribution of a community of online users.
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