"After weeks of investigation, volunteer editors on English Wikipedia announced today that they blocked 381 user accounts for "black hat" editing.[1] The accounts were engaged in undisclosed paid advocacy-the practice of accepting or charging money to promote external interests on Wikipedia without revealing their affiliation, in violation of Wikimedia's Terms of Use. The editors issued these blocks as part of their commitment to ensuring Wikipedia is an accurate, reliable, and neutral knowledge resource for everyone."
Vous avez l'impression que le monde est en train de devenir moins amical? Le sociologue Jonathan Zittrain ose être en désaccord. Il insinue qu'Internet est composé de millions de bonnes actions désintéressées, de curiosité et de confiance.
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Clay Shirky aborde le "surplus cognitif" - le travail collaboratif en ligne que nous effectuons grâce à nos cycles de cerveau disponibles. Tout en étant occupés à éditer Wikipedia, à poster sur Ushahidi (et, oui, à faire des LOLcats), nous construisons un monde meilleur et plus coopératif.
Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible -- with deep social and political implications.
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Apertium is a free/open-source machine translation platform, initially aimed at related-language pairs but expanded to deal with more divergent language pairs (such as English-Catalan). The platform provides
a language-independent machine translation engine
tools to manage the linguistic data necessary to build a machine translation system for a given language pair and
linguistic data for a growing number of language pairs.
English: Video about how to edit wikipedia by Alessandro Serravalle.
Italiano: L'animazione mostra simbolicamente la creazione e la crescita di una pagina di Wikipedia, ovvero il dietro le quinte che solitamente i lettori non vedono. Lo stile riprende la natura work in progress di Wikipedia, attraverso il continuo mutamento di una pagina eseguito da più persone. Viene data importanza alla funzione "modifica", fondamentale per iniziare a contribuire a Wikipedia.