Tag Archives: Wikipedia

How to Access Wikipedia Today

January 18, 2012, 12:23 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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Wow, most rapidly successful protest ever? Just a couple of hours into the online strike against a proposed anti-piracy law, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla), a co-sponsor of the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual … Continue reading »

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Wikipedia, Other Sites Go Dark to Protest Online Piracy Legislation

January 18, 2012, 9:31 am • Posted by Jon Brooks
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Update 3:10 p.m. Here's a video, submitted via Tackable, of MC Hammer speaking out against SOPA at a Civic Center rally in San Francisco. Original post If you don't know what the Stop Online Privacy Act today is yet, you … Continue reading »

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Video: Jimmy Wales Defends Accuracy of Wikipedia as Tenth Anniversary Nears

January 12, 2011, 7:46 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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Here's a somewhat confrontational interview Britain's Jon Snow did with Jimmy Wales today, a few days before the online encyclopedia's 10th anniversary. Snow hits Wales several times with accusations about the site's inaccuracy, confronting him with Snow's own entry, which … Continue reading »

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