I have started to use moodle and I am very pleased by its forum module. Because - there is a nice threading - your receive a notification, if somebody answers a post of you.
A shortlist of six films is made by the UK's leading critics, film-school heads and festival directors from the foreign language films released in that year in the UK. The winner is selected by a panel of judges whose decision making process is screened as part of the award ceremony, screened live on BBC Four.
Dutch filmmaker IJsbrand van Veelen stirred a lot of controversy last week at the Next Web conference when he premiered the documentary above, The Truth About Wikipedia. It has now been posted to YouTube and is worth watching when you have a spare 45 minutes.
In what is proving to be another busy day for Google, Wikipedia articles have been added to Google Maps. The new Wikipedia tags can be turned on via a 'More' button that has been added to the top right hand corner of the map.
Although Wikipedia is a great place to find information, it's subject to incomplete citations, biased views, and inaccuracies. And when you absolutely have to have undisputable facts, that's just not good enough. Fortunately, there are plenty of alternatives out there that can deliver with high quality accuracy, and we've listed 25 of the best here.
WikiBrowser is a browser of the graph of Wikipedia's interlanguage links. It analyses the inconsistent components of the graph and visualizes the results in an informative way.
Today I attended an amazing presentation by Bernardo Huberman, director of the Information Dynamics Laboratory at HP Labs, titled “Social Dynamics in the Age of the Web”. Below the roughly editing notes I took during the amazing presentation. They are not intended to represent what Bernardo said but just to give you (me!) some pointers.
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is a short story by the 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1940. The "postscript" dated 1947 is intended to be anachronistic, set seven years in the future. The first English-language translation of the story was published in 1961.
This WikiProject exists to improve the quality of existing articles related to Physics, to create articles to cover a broader range of physics topics, and to categorize and link them in appropriate ways.
I'm going to start a dynamic list of topics that I do routine searches on, for the purpose of tracking Google rankings, with special attention to the relative rankings of Knol versus Wikipedia over time.
Ein Weblog [ˈvɛp.lɔk], engl. [ˈwɛblɒg] (Wortkreuzung aus engl. World Wide Web und Log für Logbuch), meist abgekürzt als Blog [blɔk], ist ein auf einer Webseite geführtes und damit öffentlich einsehbares Tagebuch oder Journal. Häufig ist ein Blog „endlos“, d. h. eine lange, abwärts chronologisch sortierte Liste von Einträgen, die in bestimmten Abständen umbrochen wird. Es handelt sich damit zwar um eine Website, die aber im Idealfall nur eine Inhaltsebene umfasst. Ein Blog ist ein für den Herausgeber („Blogger“) und seine Leser einfach zu handhabendes Medium zur Darstellung von Aspekten des eigenen Lebens und von Meinungen zu oftmals spezifischen Themengruppen. Weiter vertieft kann es auch sowohl dem Austausch von Informationen, Gedanken und Erfahrungen als auch der Kommunikation dienen. Insofern kann es einem Internetforum ähneln, je nach Inhalt aber auch einer Internet-Zeitung.
Here's a magic trick for you: Go to a long or controversial Wikipedia page (say, "Jaron Lanier"). Click on the tab marked "discussion" at the top. Abracadabra: context!
This book is an introduction to Java™ language--a widely used programming language and a platform. It is meant to be both an introductory guide and a useful reference on Java and related technologies.
Shall I compare thee to a Knol? Hmm, perhaps not. Wikipedia sounds just right. Memorable and serious but not too serious. Of course Wikipedia is now an established “brand” and it has a big headstart on any competitor. Just like Google’s own search engine. If it is going to position itself ever to rival Wikipedia perhaps they should be thinking about a more pithy name. Knol? Unfortunately, every time I see or hear it I am transported back to Deely Plaza or the Texas Book Repository. However good the product, many have been done for because of poor marketing. This is perhaps a quibble. If a product is good enough it might survive uninspired marketing.
Wikiversity is a project of the Wikimedia foundation. It is a centre for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. We host free education resources and scholarly projects. We also aim at interacting with other wikimedia projects and support their content developments. So far, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese and Czech have developed into separate projects.
Wikipedia-Statistiker Erik Zachte hat für die neue Übersicht die Logfiles der Proxy-Server der Wikimedia-Foundation ausgewertet. Demnach haben Wikipedia-Leser alleine im September 10,175 Milliarden Seiten abgerufen. Die Schwersterprojekte kamen im selben Monat immerhin auf 456 Millionen Abrufe.
Wikipedia laboratory is a special interest group on Wikipedia mining. The main purpose of this Web site is to share knowledge, discuss Wikipedia analysis, develop tools, etc. using Wikipedia knowledge.
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy.
Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) is a process in data warehousing that involves
* extracting data from outside sources,
* transforming it to fit business needs (which can include quality levels), and ultimately
* loading it into the end target, i.e. the data warehouse.
Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he belongs to the scientific directorate of the Foundational Questions Institute. Currently, he also teaches a relativity class (8.033) to undergraduates at MIT.
The following is a list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes sorted by mirror diameter. Note that two of the first three are not yet operational. This list does not currently include telescopes that are still in the conceptual/proposed stage, such as the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope or the European Extremely Large Telescope; the design stage, such as the Thirty Meter Telescope; or ones still in the early stages of manufacturing such as the Giant Magellan Telescope.
A refracting or refractor telescope is a dioptric telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image. The refracting telescope design was originally used in spy glasses and astronomical telescopes but is also used in other devices such as binoculars and long or telephoto camera lenses.
Professor Dame Janet Laughland Nelson, DBE, FBA (born 1942), is a British academic, scholar and writer at King's College London. Her research to date has been focused on early medieval Europe, including Anglo-Saxon England. She has published widely on kingship, government, political ideas, religion and ritual, and increasingly on women and gender during this period.
C. Wagner, D. Garcia, M. Jadidi, and M. Strohmaier. (2015)cite arxiv:1501.06307Comment: in The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM2015), Oxford, May 2015.