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Q.Besides Wikipedia, Wikitravel, and Wikinews, are there n e other Wikisites?Related Search:
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 Is there a certain page that I'm supposed to know about (but don't) that has like clickable links to wikieverything??
A.You bet there is! There are projects ranging from Wookiepedia ( The Star Wars Wikipedia) to Bulbapedia (a Wiki on Pokemon) to Wikibooks. Here is a full list. Culture and the arts * A Million Penguins – a novel that was written collaboratively. * IMSLP – a wiki library of public domain music scores. * Lostpedia – a wiki dedicated to the LOST television series. * LyricWiki – a wiki listing lyrics by album. * Memory Alpha – a Star Trek-related encyclopedia. * Wookieepedia – a large Star Wars wiki/encyclopedia. * ZineWiki – a zine encyclopedia. [edit] Directories * AboutUs.org – a wiki about Web sites. [edit] Geographic * City Wiki – a wiki used for geographically localized information * Galbijim Wiki – a wiki devoted to expats in South Korea. [edit] Political * Conservapedia – an encyclopedia wiki with a Christian conservativism viewpoint [edit] Recreational * Uncyclopedia – a satirical parody-style encyclopedia. [edit] References * Baidu Baike – Chinese web encyclopedia * Citizendium - an online wiki-based encyclopedia that does not allow anonymous editing and has an "editor" role for specialists in particular subjects. * Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español – a Spanish language fork of Wikipedia. * Susning.nu – Swedish language encyclopedia, dictionary, and discussion forum. A competitor with the Swedish Wikipedia. * Wikibooks – textbooks; sister project of Wikipedia. * Wikinews – A collaborative news service; sister project of Wikipedia. * Wikinfo – a fork of Wikipedia, inspired by Wikipedia, but without the neutral point of view policy, instead using a sympathetic point of view. * Wikipedia – a general Encyclopedia covering a wide range topics. * [Wikipedagogy]- Wiki software challenges and complexifies official authorizing practices and poses fundamental - if not radical - questions for both academic theory and pedagogical practice. * Wikiquote – a quote repository. A sister project of Wikipedia. * Wikisource – Primary sources for use in Wikipedia, a sister project of Wikipedia. * Wikispecies – a directory of species. A sister project of Wikipedia. * Wikiversity – an online learning program; a sister project of Wikipedia. * WikiZnanie – a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the BSL DPL license. * Wiktionary – a multilingual Dictionary project; a sister project of Wikipedia. * Wikia - (formerly Wikicities) A wiki farm hosting wikis for various online communities. [edit] Science and technology * Dispersive PDE Wiki – A wiki concerned with the well-posedness of various non-linear dispersive and wave equations. * OpenWetWare – a wiki that promotes sharing and dissemination of knowledge related to biological research. * Palaeos.org – a paleontology and history of earth knowledge base. * Unilang – an online community and database dedicated to languages, linguistics, and language acquisition. [edit] Computers * MeatballWiki – discusses online communities ("meatballs") * UseModWiki – first wiki running UseModWiki WikiEngine and originally dedicated to the "Usenet Moderation Project" * WikiWikiWeb – Ward Cunningham's wiki, the world's oldest (March 1995). Devoted to computer programming. * WikiServer – a wiki focused on the development of a self-contained wiki-engine. [edit] Societal * Congresspedia, a separately branded sub-section of SourceWatch – an encyclopedia about the U.S. Congress. * Intellipedia – a classified wiki that runs on the top-secret network that links the U.S. intelligence community. It is not accessible to the public. * Jurispedia – an academic encyclopedia about Law. At present, it exists in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish editions. * MemoryArchive (formerly MemoryWiki) – A place to collect people's personal accounts of historical events. * SourceWatch (formerly Disinfopedia) – a wiki about propaganda, including organizations that seek to influence public opinion. * The Student Room – a student resource wiki offering revision notes, examples of university personal statements and information on student life, UK universities and courses. * Wikileaks – a wiki that allows people to leak official government documents anonymously. * Wikocracy – allows users to re-write the Constitution of the United States of America, the USA PATRIOT Act, Roe v. Wade, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or any law they feel needs changing [edit] Travel * WikiMapia – online map resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system. 35 languages currently supported. * Wikitravel – a travel guide, organized as a wiki, inspired in part by Wikipedia, but not part of Wikimedia. * World66 – a travel-based wiki.
  

Q.Was benoit guilty of a double murder suicide or murdered and set up?Related Search:
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 On the wiki site for him it says that a wiki article for his wifes death was posted hours before the actual event. [Link]  Very strange indeed, i cant see personally how he could just snap like that. Also strange how he and Eddie Guerrero were such good friends and they died really quite close in time terms. Just 2 freak occurrences or is something more sinister going on??
A.yes he was guilty
  

Q.what do you think of this platform by presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich?Related Search:
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 2008 Presidential campaign Wikinews has news related to: Kucinich to run for U.S. presidentOn December 11, 2006 in a speech delivered at Cleveland City Hall, Kucinich announced he would seek the nomination of the Democratic Party for President in 2008. [1] His Platform for 2008 Includes: Creating a single-payer system of universal health care that provides full coverage for all Americans. The Immediate Withdrawal of All U.S. Forces from Iraq and replacing them with an international security force. Guaranteed Quality Education for All, including Free Pre-K and College for All who want it. Immediate withdrawal from the WTO ( World Trade Organization )and NAFTA ( North America Free Trade Agreement). Repealing the USA PATRIOT Act. Fostering a World of International Cooperation. Abolishing the Death Penalty. Environmental renewal and clean energy. Preventing the privatization of social security. Providing Full social security benefits at age 65. Creating a cabinet-level "Department of Peace" Ratifying the ABM Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol. Introducing reforms to bring about instant-runoff voting. Protecting a Woman's Right-to-Choose while decreasing the number of abortions performed in the U.S. Ending the war on drugs. Legalizing same-sex marriage. Creating a balance Between Workers and Corporations. Restoring Rural Communities and Family Farms. more info at the website below..what parts of his platform do you like or dislike? [Link] / I would not consider it hot air since he votes and introduces bills in accordance with his beliefs and he is thought to be the most honest and highly principled man in congress. I meet him and heard him speak a number of times and he is the most highly principled person I ever met and I'm in my mid 50's. He may not get to impliment it due to the powers that be, but he is NOT full of hot air. well over 50% want to leave Iraq..something like 26% immediately and 36% within a year I just read this poll an hour ago so so he is not outside the mainstream since that's about 2/3rds of the country. Ohio is trying to get universal health care on the ballot and it is much cheaper (even the government accountability office says( than what we have now.. there are plenty of people who do not think they are bad ideas. as stated universal health care is cheaper than what we have now. I gathered about 1200 petition signatures for universal health care act and I forget figures ut in Ohio alone we would save multi millions in savings from ceo salaries and insurance profitsd and paperwork see this website for details and answers to common questions. [Link] / in previous election, he planned to cut 20% from the military budget to fund free health care, college, and preschool, and other needs and still had tons to spare. he is hardly a moran. It was widely stated in numerous articles last election (I read over 600 pages of articles on him) that he was easily the most intelligent candidate running. I am the parent of two gifted kids and wanted to teach gifted kids (but no jobs) and did many observations at numerous gifted classes and am VERY adept picking it out as many relaives are gifted and he is highly gifted. He sees possibilities that you are blind to and he not only has wonderful ieas, he has foresight and common sense. I think ou just parrot your druggie talk show hosts. Jamie as US congress' only and longtime vegan, Dennis has a personal belief on many environmental issues. His issues stances are discussed more fully at his website kucinich.us if you forget the website..you can reach it by typing thenextpresident.info also under Bush we have 20% more abortions and it is at the highest rate ever since roe v wade. This is because 20% of abortions are done for economic reasons. If a person has no job, works 2 or 3 low paying jobs or has no medical insurance they are less likety to choose life. Just by voting and having democrats in power, 880 unborn lives a day are saved. Democratic policies save more more life than Republican rhetoric, but prolifers would rather choose people who talk prolife but whose policies lead to more death. In addition, I believe Kucinich is hoping to via his dept of peace and teaching children from a young age peace concepts that when they are older they will be more likely to chose life.
A.His Platform for 2008 Includes: Creating a single-payer system of universal health care that provides full coverage for all Americans. YES wonderful--we are one of only 2 civilized nations without it..it is badly needed..45 million have no health care, many millions are underinsured, and many pay way too high co-pays and deductables and as you explained the governments studies show it is cheaper than what we have now. It is the greed of the medical industry and insurance that keep us from it and cheaper drugs than the ones the same companies give to Canada The Immediate Withdrawal of All U.S. Forces from Iraq and replacing them with an international security force. YES--This is the mandate politicians received from the people in November..thanks for pointing out the statistic of those many Americans who agree with him..as a representative, his job is to represent the wishes of the people...and getting out of Iraq is CLEARLY the wish of the American people. Not only has Dennis voted against the war, but he is the only presidential candidate with the consistency with his anti-war beliefs to ALSO vote against funding the war appropriations. Guaranteed Quality Education for All, including Free Pre-K and College for All who want it. YES- also badly needed as education costs rise and less people can afford coolege. Since our technological and advancing world requires higher levels of education, and since education is the only proven way out of poverty, it needs to be given a much higher priority in politics than it currently is..this will also help schools since people don't want to fund due to property taxes rising..our money should be spent on this worthy goal instead of killing people. immediate withdrawal from the WTO ( World Trade Organization )and NAFTA ( North America Free Trade Agreement). YES-- absolutely,,this is taking away our jobs and competitive edge and badly hurting America as so many jobs are outsourced. Repealing the USA PATRIOT Act. YES--this is a nightmare..if not revoked needs to be extremely revised Ben Franklin said that "those who give up essential freedoms for a little security deserve neither." Fostering a World of International Cooperation. YES, via his dept of peace idea and reparations he wants to give. Our place as a world leader--a city on the hill has dropped--many now hate america since Bush took over and this puts us at added risks of terrorist attacks. America needs to demonstrate to the world a sense of diplomancy and co-operation rather than a big bully like it does now. Abolishing the Death Penalty. NO but we do need to make the justice system more equitable and provide non-oerworked public defenders or limit their caseloads, so that the poor and minorities do not disproportionately receive the death penalty while the rich do not. Environmental renewal and clean energy. yes..badly needed and rarely talked about by candidates. We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and go to alternative energy. We need to break up factory farms and their enviromental damage and return to the safer and more humanely raised animals and animal products and organigally grown and safe produce. Profit needs to be lessoned in food manufacturing if it is done at the detriment of the envionment and people's health. Global warming needs to be addressed. GMO and non reproducing seeds in the hands of people like Monsanto needs to be outlawed until vigerous testing proves they pose no threat to the environment and health. There is a myriad of issues to be addressed here. Preventing the privatization of social security. YES--this will ruin this program if it is privatised...so many people paid into S.S. for years and this could very possibly harm the many old and disabled people and their quality of life Providing Full social security benefits at age 65. YES--just the other day, my republican brother agreed with this ..we are getting more and more education and working to later and later years to the detriment of our families and health. We need to rethink our priorities. Creating a cabinet-level "Department of Peace" YES--this comprehensive program would help prevent violence in the home, community, racial and police violence, and prevent world conflicts via diplomacy etc. It even has a section for animal abuse..He wants to spend 1% of military budet..a small price to address the rampant violence in the home, community, and nation, and world that ruins so many lives. I heard him explain it once and it was so visionary. Ratifying the ABM Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol. YES--we should not be one of the few nations not signing onto the kyoto and call ourselves a leader whwn we take a backseat to reducing emissions..we come across as so selfish and we violated so many of our treaties This needs to be rectified..if we violate multiple treaties we signed as we did under Bush, how can we expect other nationss not to do the same. This is quite hypocritical. Introducing reforms to bring about instant-runoff voting. YES -So important--this is crucial to having a viable 3rd party allowing people to vote their conscience but, at the same time, not hurt their 2nd choice and help their last choice by default giving people a choice and seeing the real numbers of people who would support a 3rd party candidates if not worried about helping accidentally the opposition party. This will enable us to place in office honest and enthusiastic people with real ideas for positive change by replacing the leaders in both parties who are corrupt, party tools, and under the thumb of corporations. IRV is so important to reviving our democracy and country and also making it a real democracy.. Protecting a Woman's Right-to-Choose while decreasing the number of abortions performed in the U.S. NO although working to reduce the number of abortions is great, I am a very prolife liberal. I feel abortion is wrong. At the same time, people need to have compassion and aid for the women in these crises situations..I believe this can be done better than it is and realize that abortion will likely not be reversed in multiplee years..in the menatime, we are working to reduce abortions. Ending the war on drugs. Yes--but I don't see how we would, but would like to hear his thoughts on it- legalizing same-sex marriage. no but I would still vote for him as this is not by far the most important issues and if it happened, I'd be ok with it. I have given this issue a lot of thought and my thoughts are not as oppsed as I opnce was as I reevaluate my beliefs with time, knowledge, and compassion. Creating a balance Between Workers and Corporations. yes--it is so out of balance, it isn't funny..this is not government of, for, and by the people anymore but of, for, and by the corporations. Balance is badly needed and it takes courage for a politician to say so in the current environment of money taking such a huge place in the altering of elections. Restoring Rural Communities and Family Farms. yes, agribusinesses are ruining the country and food not to mention cruel to the animals. They are causing huge environmental damge and unsanitary as well as creating monopolies over free market systems. So in conclusion, he is the ideal candidate..excellent platform and smart, honest, compassionate as well. We need to fight for what we want, rather than dismiss it as impossible. Nothing is impossible if people fight and pray and work for it. Go Dennis!!
  

Q.Should we protest in this fashion more often?Related Search:
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 At first I thought this guy was a complete nutter [Link]  then when I seen why he did it, I agreed why. I believe when we protest, it should be done with more humor in this fashion. Bonus points. What if this man did win a settlement from God. How would this change the debate about God's existence? Additional bonus points. How can I convince people at large that I don't exist so people cannot sue me in the first place? while still being able to retain my existence?
A.Don't think this is a good idea--- this guy might get struck by lightening or something.
  

Q.What website do you enjoy using when looking up current events?Related Search:
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 I like to use Wikipedia ‘s Wikinews [Link] ).
A.I enjoy using Yahoo! It's always updated, correct, and current.
  
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Wikinews
The current Wikinews logo
Detail of the Wikinews multilingual portal main page.
Screenshot of wikinews.org home page
URL www.wikinews.org
Commercial? No
Type of site News wiki
Registration Optional
Available language(s) multilingual
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Created by Wikimedia Community
Alexa rank 11,634[1]

Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying "on Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an encyclopedia article."[2] The neutral point of view policy espoused in Wikinews distinguishes it from other citizen journalism efforts such as Indymedia and OhmyNews.[3] In contrast to most projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikinews allows original work under the form of original reporting and interviews.[4] The English Wikinews is the only Wikimedia site that grants press passes to reporters endorsed by the local community.[5]

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Sister project Wikinews has related news: English Wikinews publishes 10000th article

The first recorded proposal of a Wikimedia news site was a two-line anonymous post on January 5, 2003, on Wikipedia community's Meta-Wiki.[6] Daniel Alston, who edited Wikipedia as Fonzy,[7] claimed to have been the one who posted it.[8] The proposal was then further developed by German freelance journalist, software developer and author Erik Möller. Early opposition from long-time Wikipedia contributors, many of them pointing out the existence of Wikipedia's own news summaries, gave way to detailed discussions and proposals about how it could be implemented as a new project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

The beta version logo, used until February 13, 2005

In November 2004, a demonstration wiki was established to show how such a collaborative news site might work. In December 2004, the site was moved out of the "demo" stage and into the beta stage. A German language edition was launched at the same time. Soon editions in Italian, Dutch, French, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Norwegian, and Chinese (in that chronological order) were set up.

On March 13, 2005, the English edition of Wikinews reached 1,000 news articles. Just a few months later in September 2005, the project moved to the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.[9]

On April 29, 2006, the English edition of Wikinews reached 5,000 news articles. On September 5, 2007, just over a year later, the English edition of Wikinews reached 10,000 news articles.

[edit] Additional projects

While Wikinews focuses primarily on text articles, members are expanding the site into other media. These projects include Audio Wikinews, which delivers Ogg Vorbis audio files, Wikinews Video 2.0 (test phase) and Wikinews Print edition, which is a daily edition intended to be printed.

On April 28, 2008 Wikinews also started the plans for Wikimedia Radio which is aimed at a 24/7 streaming audio broadcast of various programs and news, mainly from participating Wikimedia projects. [10]

[edit] Interviews

Wikinews reporters have conducted interviews with several notable people. The site reached a milestone when it became what is believed to be the first citizen journalism news site to interview a sitting head of state. In December 2007, Wikinews interviewed Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shimon Peres.[11][12] Some other notable interviews have included writers, actors and politicians, such as Augusten Burroughs[13], 2008 Republican nomination hopefuls and independent/third party candidates for President, Tony Benn, Eric Bogosian, Nick Smith and John Keys, and world wide web co-inventor Robert Cailliau.[11]

[edit] Criticism

Like Wikipedia (see Criticism of Wikipedia), Wikinews is criticized for its perceived inability to be neutral or include only verified and true information. Robert McHenry, former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica criticized[14] the credibility of the project:

“ Above all, the central question about the Wikinews effort is its credibility. Making a newspaper is hard...Someone who wants to do it but doesn't really know how hasn't solved the problem by gathering a lot of other people who don't know, either. ”

McHenry was skeptical about Wikinews' ability to provide a neutral point of view and its claim to be evenhanded: "The naïveté is stunning."[14]

In a 2007 interview Sue Gardner, at that time a special adviser to the board of the Wikimedia Foundation and former head of the Canadian Broadcasting Company's Internet division, CBC.ca, dismissed McHenry's comment, stating "Journalism is not a profession ... at its heart, it's just a craft. And that means that it can be practiced by anyone who is sensible and intelligent and thoughtful and curious ... I go back to the morning of Virginia Tech - the morning I decided I wanted to work here [WMF]. The conversation on the talk page that day was extremely thoughtful. I remember thinking to myself that if my own newsroom had been having a conversation that intelligent (I was offsite that day) I would have been delighted. So yes, [in my opinion] you absolutely have proved Robert McHenry wrong. And you will continue to."[15]

Wikinews has also had issues with maintaining a separate identity from Wikipedia, which also covers major news events in real-time. Columnist Jonathan Dee of The New York Times has pointed out that "So indistinct has the line between past and present become that Wikipedia has inadvertently all but strangled one of its sister projects, the three-year-old Wikinews... [Wikinews] has sunk into a kind of torpor; lately it generates just 8 to 10 articles a day... On bigger stories there's just no point in competing with the ruthless purview of the encyclopedia."[16]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "wikinews.org Traffic Details". www.alexa.com. Alexa Internet (2 December 2008). Retrieved on 2 December 2008.
  2. ^ Joanna Glasner (29 November 2004), "Wikipedia Creators Move Into News", WIRED, http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/11/65819, retrieved on 21 April 2007 
  3. ^ Aaron Weiss (10 February 2005), "The Unassociated Press", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10wiki.html?ex=1177300800&en=024e251d2c696137&ei=5070, retrieved on 21 April 2007 
  4. ^ Wikinews:Original reporting.
  5. ^ Wikinews:Credential verification
  6. ^ Archived log entry of the anonymous post on Meta-Wiki.
  7. ^ Archived log entry of the userpage of User:Fonzy on the English Wikipedia, which states his real name.
  8. ^ Log entry of User:Fonzy editing this article on the English Wikipedia.
  9. ^ Wikinews switches to Creative Commons license
  10. ^ Wikimedia Radio
  11. ^ a b Wikinews Gets Big Interview: Israeli President Shimon Peres, K.C. Jones, Information Week, January 14, 2008.
  12. ^ Wikinews - Shimon Peres discusses the future of Israel
  13. ^ David Shankbone with Colleen Asper, Colleen Asper, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008.
  14. ^ a b - Jimmy Wales, president of Wikimedia, where articles written by users are open to revision by others., Aaron Weiss, New York Times, February 10, 2005.
  15. ^ "Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation", Wikinews; October 24, 2007.
  16. ^ Dee, Jonathan (2007-07-01), "All the News That’s Fit to Print Out", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html, retrieved on 31 December 2007 

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