With Wikipedia and online searches, it wouldn't take much effort to pinpoint historical inaccuracies in the game.
Wales, 39, is the father of the world's most sprawling encyclopedia, the online Wikipedia.
Godwin now is general counsel for the parent of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, which itself got fooled by anonymity.
By comparison, online encyclopedia Wikipedia has 3.5 million English entries, though they include more detailed information.
In the age of Wikipedia and everything accessible online, I am a diehard with a big old dictionary.
To protest the proposed legislation, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia said it will close down its English language version for 24 hours on Wednesday.
This, to digital immigrants, may sound like a recipe for anarchic chaos, until they visit, for instance, wikipedia.org, an online encyclopaedia that is growing dramatically richer by the day through exactly this spontaneous (and surprisingly orderly) collaboration among strangers.
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Among social media sources, Wikipedia sits on top of the online world with YouTube coming in second.
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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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The actor, who married fellow actress Rosemarie DeWitt earlier this year, has sued an unknown online troll who keeps changing his Wikipedia entry to allege that Livingston is gay and in a relationship with a man named Lee Dennison.
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Four websites most consistently account for links between countries: YouTube, Wikipedia, the BBC and, a distant fourth, Global Voices Online.
Acta shares similarities with America's Stop Online Piracy Act, which US lawmakers set aside last week after Wikipedia and Google blacked out or partially obscured their websites for a day in protest.
"Wikipedia has always been a truth tool, " says Michael Fertik, founder of the online PR firm Reputation Defender.
Wikipedia, which attracts millions of hits every day, is opposed to the US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) being debated by Congress.
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Instead of sitting on the couch mindlessly watching sitcoms, individuals can engage with others in online communities, collaborate on open sourced projects, and contribute to knowledge platforms like Wikipedia and Quora.
There are few photos of him online, and a few weeks ago, someone created the first page for him on Wikipedia.
Church, who started the Personal Genome Project and is founder of the gene-scanning company Knome, envisions a Wikipedia-style model for interpreting the genome, where experts (using their real namea) collaborate online to help people interpret their genome results.
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