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6-digit UNESCO nomenclature

The article covering the full 6-digit nomenclature is incomplete in this English-language edition of Wikipedia but may be found in the Spanish-language edition at :es:Clasificación Unesco 6 dígitos.

Advanced Access Content System

Some sites that rely on user-submitted content, like Digg and Wikipedia, tried to remove any mentions of the key.

Aragonese Wikipedia

The Aragonese Wikipedia (or Biquipedia) is the Aragonese language edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia.

After its foundation on 21 July 2004, the Aragonese Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles on 30 December 2005 after the creation of an article about Panama City and its community produced a special logo to commemorate the event.

Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project

The conference also discussed ways of exchanging information for the inclusion of older tropical cyclones, such as via compact disc or a Wikipedia-style website.

Bell Pottinger Private

On 8 December 2011, the UK national newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that some Wikipedia user accounts allegedly linked to Bell Pottinger had been suspended.

Bill Connelly

William Connolley (born 1964), software engineer, climatology blogger and Wikipedia editor

Château de Rambures

Based on the original article in the French Wikipedia (:fr:Château de Rambures).

China's Wikipedia

Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China, the People's Republic of China's policy of preventing access to Wikipedia from within the country

Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia

Revelations from software produced by Virgil Griffith in 2007 called WikiScanner made public the nature of edits on Wikipedia which were able to be traced directly back to Church of Scientology-controlled computers.

Clan McCorquodale

McCorquodale, a disambiguation page listing occurrences of McCorquodale in Wikipedia

Connecticut for Lieberman

In March, Korchin changed the Wikipedia article about the party to reflect his role and in response to Orman's claims.

Draft Communications Data Bill

At the RSA Conference Europe 2012, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the bill "will force many relatively small companies to hang on to data that they would not otherwise retain, which puts the data at risk".

Edward C. Papenfuse

His current editorial interest with regard to Wikipedia centers on overseeing his students contributions to Wikipedia, George Washington's bow to civil authority in 1783, Maryland place names (such as Accident, Maryland), Maryland related themes such as the articles on Civil War era including Cipriano Ferrandini, and major national law cases that had their origins in Maryland such as Barron v. Baltimore.

Essjay controversy

Steve Maich (journalist, Maclean's) stated that the controversy could damage Wikipedia's future as a media business operation, observing that Wikipedia's model was supposedly built upon trust and credibility.

French Wikipedia

According to a 2013 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford study, Ségolène Royal (FR) and unidentified flying object (objet volant non identifié) were the most controversial articles on the French Wikipedia.

Glas Isar

This entry includes information from the German Wikipedia Glas Isar article.

Good Faith Collaboration

Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a 2010 book by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. (a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School), published by MIT Press.

Greg Hunt

In October 2013, while being interviewed by the BBC, Hunt referred to research that he had conducted using Wikipedia to contradict Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in regards to the relationship between climate change and bushfires.

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira

Auroras Anlaß, Erich Hackl, Zürich 1987 (described in the German Wikipedia article Auroras Anlaß).

Homoglyph

Commonly, this is implemented by prohibiting names which mix character sets from multiple languages (toys-Я-us.org would be invalid, but wíkipedia.org and wikipedia.org still exist as different websites); Canada's .ca registry goes one step further by requiring names which differ only in diacritics have the same owner and same registrar.

Jean Jacques Surian

Recently it was noticed while exposing in 2004 a series of painting in Aix-en-Provence on the Divine Comedy of Dante (see some examples on fr:Wikipedia) and took part in 2006 in "the Cézanne year" with an exposure to the museum of the tapestries of Aix-en-Provence, where it reinterpreted the work of the Master of Aix, with much of affection, freedom and creative intelligence.

Karl Ritter

Nothing is known of Ritter's life after his release, except, according to Wikipedia, attendance at the home of Winifred Wagner along with Edda Göring, Adolf von Thadden, Hans Severus Ziegler and others.

Ken Ruettgers

Students found out that he had been a football player when they found his Wikipedia entry.

Klemen Žumer

"Volitve poslancev iz Slovenije v Evropski parlament 2009", Wikipedia, Ljubljana, 1 May 2009.

Litigation involving the Wikimedia Foundation

In addition to the above mentioned article, two other articles came under the purview of Wikipedia's office actions, because of the DMCA, Damon Dash and Conventional PCI.

Maurice Lacroix

In recent years, Maurice Lacroix has collaborated with Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales, musician Bob Geldof and British golfer Justin Rose on a brand endorsement campaign.

MediaDefender

The e-mails also revealed direction by MediaDefender founder Randy Saaf to have developer Ben Ebert attempt to eliminate the information about MiiVi from MediaDefender's Wikipedia entry.

Michel Serres

Serres is a vocal enthusiast for freely accessible knowledge, especially Wikipedia.

Newton, Derbyshire

For other Wikipedia articles using the word Newton, please see Newton.

Paparazzi Project

Paparazzi collaborators share ideas and information using the same MediaWiki software that is used by Wikipedia.

Parliamentary Services Act

One MP from the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition exasperatedly decried the amount of red tape required for MPs to hire research assistants, and another stated he was forced to use online websites such as Wikipedia for his research.

Paulo Roberto do Carmo

on November 4 and November 11, his career information on Wikipedia and Brazilian Football Confederation Website was shown by Adel Ferdosipour at Navad.

Primitive Race

-- DO NOT CHANGE! Members are listed in order of joining the band, as per Wikipedia guidelines. -->Chris Kniker - Founder
Luc Van Acker
Raymond Watts
Dave Ogilvie
Mark Gemini Thwaite
Erie Loch
Graham Crabb
Burton C. Bell
Kourtney Klein

Pseudonymity

Pseudonymity is an important component of the reputation systems found in online auction services (such as eBay), discussion sites (such as Slashdot), and collaborative knowledge development sites (such as Wikipedia).

Retreat to Move Forward

He tells her to do her research on Joplin on Wikipedia, then quickly edits the page contents with nonsense when Jenna goes off to read it.

Rohan Nichol

He also shared screen with Genevieve O'Reilly (Mon Mothma in Episode III) in several episodes of the TV series All Saints.

Scharnebeck twin ship lift

Schiffshebewerk Scharnebeck, article on the German-language WikiPedia from which this article had been translated

Still Walking

The content of this article was translated from :he:עוד אני הולך (ספר) (Still Walking) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia, acknowledged here under terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The Scientist

Labs using YouTube, Wikipedia, JoVE, and other tools to best collaborate, communicate, and research were nominated by readers around the world.

Vertrue

Vertrue has sued the Wikimedia Foundation in 2008 in Connecticut over the contents of the article on the company in Wikipedia.

Vietnamese Wikipedia

As with other language editions of Wikipedia, the project's content is both created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.

VPRO Backlight

In this episode the pros and cons of Wikipedia as well as other Web 2.0 websites were discussed by Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, Andrew Keen (writer), Charles Leadbeater (writer) and Robert McHenry (former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica).

Wiki journalism

Where Wikinews – and indeed Wikipedia - has been most successful, however, is in covering large news events involving large numbers of people, such as Hurricane Katrina and the Virginia Tech Shootings, where first hand experience, or the availability of first hand accounts, forms a larger part of the entry, and where the wealth of reportage makes a central ‘clearing house’ valuable.

Wikipedia for World Heritage

Wikipedia for World Heritage refers to the efforts put forth to get Wikipedia listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Zena El Khalil

Among the speakers were Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and Jonathan Zittrain, one of the principal investigators of the Open Net Initiative.

Zorn's Law

Zorn's law is a maxim coined by Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn as a Wikipedia prank.


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