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1:00PM Angus Kidman | Spotted a stupid typo or a factual error on Wikipedia? Don’t just laugh or say “that proves you can never trust the Internet” — get in and correct it yourself. More »
Wikipedia Editing For Beginners
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Spotted a stupid typo or a factual error on Wikipedia? Don’t just laugh or say “that proves you can never trust the Internet” — get in and correct it yourself. More » 
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Wikipedia To Colour Code Untrustworthy Text
4:00AM Azadeh Ensha | Wikipedia has its share of detractors who question the reliability and accuracy of the site’s entries. To appease critics and combat bias, Wikipedia will institute an optional feature called WikiTrust, which according to Wired Magazine “will colour code every word of the encyclopaedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page”. More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | Google’s familiar practice of offering popular sections within a site as part of its search results has a new twist with Wikipedia: for longer articles, it offers direct links to the main sections, making it quicker to jump to the relevant material. How effective that is depends on the article structure, but for well-maintained topics, it’s a handy time saver. [via Google Operating System]
Google Offering Wikipedia Sub-Links In Results
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Google’s familiar practice of offering popular sections within a site as part of its search results has a new twist with Wikipedia: for longer articles, it offers direct links to the main sections, making it quicker to jump to the relevant material. How effective that is depends on the article structure, but for well-maintained topics, it’s a handy time saver. [via Google Operating System]
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | Search engine aggregators which combine results from multiple sites are nothing that new, but Heapr combines the expected Google results with Twitter, Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia for a pretty contemporary mix of results. More »
Heapr Searches Google, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha And Wikipedia
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Search engine aggregators which combine results from multiple sites are nothing that new, but Heapr combines the expected Google results with Twitter, Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia for a pretty contemporary mix of results. More »
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Wikipedia Releases An Official iPhone Application
10:00AM Adam Pash | iPhone/iPod touch only: We’ve already seen plenty of apps that bring Wikipedia to your iPhone, but today Wikipedia launches their own official iPhone app called Wikipedia Mobile. More »
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Generate PDFs And Multi-Article Books From Wikipedia
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Lifehacker reader John is a finance student who found something very helpful in Wikipedia’s new beta design. Any article can be downloaded or printed as a PDF, and multiple articles can be combined into a PDF book. More »
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Try Out Wikipedia’s New Look In Beta
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | If you’re a frequent surfer of the mass-edited encyclopedia, now would be a good time to register for a user account. With it, you can enable Wikipedia’s new beta skin/theme, which gives a slicker feel to reading and editing. More »
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Search Wikipedia From The Command Line
4:00AM The How-To Geek | If you’ve ever had the inclination to look up information using the shell prompt, the Command-Line Fu site explains how to query Wikipedia using the built-in dig utility. More »
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Wikipedia Mobile Leaves Beta, Adds Automatic Redirects
4:30AM Azadeh Ensha | After being in what the company calls “alpha-beta-development-maybe-kind-live mode”, user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia’s mobile site has officially launched, complete with support for iPhone, Kindle, Android and Palm Pre devices, redirecting these devices to the new mobile page by default. More »
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3:30PM Angus Kidman | Ever wondered how Australia’s fertility rate compares to the rest of the world? You can track that — along with dozens of other stats — in a neat animated format on the OECD Factbook eXplorer site. More »
Factbook eXplorer Offers Animated View Of Stats
3:30PM Angus Kidman | Ever wondered how Australia’s fertility rate compares to the rest of the world? You can track that — along with dozens of other stats — in a neat animated format on the OECD Factbook eXplorer site. More » 
