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The Wikipedia community is the community of contributors to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. [1]

51 relations: Bloomberg News, Cease and desist, Citizendium, Clay Shirky, Edit-a-thon, Encyclopédistes, English Wikipedia, Erasmus Prize, Essjay controversy, First Monday (journal), Free content, Gender bias on Wikipedia, Gina Trapani, Ideology, Jimmy Wales, John Seigenthaler, Larry Sanger, Lifehacker, List of Wikipedia people, Martin M. Wattenberg, MIT Technology Review, Morley Safer, Oliver Kamm, Open-source software, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, OxfordDictionaries.com, Procedural justice, Słubice, Self-concept, Social privilege, Sue Gardner, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Register, The Signpost, The Times, Transaction cost, University of Minnesota, UNU-MERIT, Virtual volunteering, Wiki, Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia, Wikimania, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Wikipedia administrators, Wikipedia Monument, Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident, Wikipedian in residence, ..., 60 Minutes. Expand index (1 more) »

Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News is an international news agency headquartered in New York, United States and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Cease and desist

A cease and desist letter is a document sent to an individual or business to stop purportedly illegal activity ("cease") and not to restart it ("desist").

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Citizendium

Citizendium ("the citizens' compendium of everything") is an English-language wiki-based free encyclopedia project launched by Larry Sanger, who had previously co-founded Wikipedia in 2001.

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Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky (born 1964) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.

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Edit-a-thon

An edit-a-thon (sometimes written editathon) is an organized event where editors of online communities such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, and LocalWiki edit and improve a specific topic or type of content, typically including basic editing training for new editors.

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Encyclopédistes

The Encyclopédistes were members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writer's society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

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English Wikipedia

The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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Erasmus Prize

The Erasmus Prize is an annual prize awarded by the board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation to individuals or institutions that have made exceptional contributions to culture, society, or social science in Europe and the rest of the world.

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Essjay controversy

The Essjay controversy involved a prominent Wikipedia participant and salaried Wikia employee, known by the username Essjay, who later identified himself as Ryan Jordan.

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First Monday (journal)

First Monday is a monthly peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering research on the Internet.

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Free content

Free content, libre content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, work of art, or other creative content that meets the definition of a free cultural work.

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Gender bias on Wikipedia

Gender bias on Wikipedia refers to criticism of the online encyclopedia, and especially its English-language site, that the nature and quantity of its content is biased due to the fact that a dominant majority of volunteer Wikipedia editors are male.

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Gina Trapani

Gina Marie Trapani (born September 19, 1975) is an American tech blogger, web developer, and writer.

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Ideology

An Ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.

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Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the online moniker Jimbo, is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia, and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia.

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John Seigenthaler

John Lawrence Seigenthaler (July 27, 1927 – July 11, 2014) was an American journalist, writer, and political figure.

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Larry Sanger

Lawrence Mark Sanger (born) is an American Internet project developer, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium.

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Lifehacker

Lifehacker is a weblog about life hacks and software which launched on January 31, 2005.

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List of Wikipedia people

The list of Wikipedia people includes notable editors, founders and functionaries of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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Martin M. Wattenberg

Martin M. Wattenberg (born 1970) is an American scientist and artist known for his work with data visualization.

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MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review is a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Morley Safer

Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News.

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Oliver Kamm

Oliver George Kamm (born February 1963) is a British journalist and writer who is a leader writer and columnist for The Times.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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OxfordDictionaries.com

OxfordDictionaries.com, originally titled Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) and rebranded Oxford Living Dictionaries in 2017, is an online dictionary produced by the Oxford University Press (OUP) publishing house, a department of the University of Oxford, which also publishes a number of print dictionaries, among other works.

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Procedural justice

Procedural justice is the idea of fairness in the processes that resolve disputes and allocate resources.

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Słubice

Słubice (German Dammvorstadt) is a border town in the Lubusz Voivodeship of western Poland.

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Self-concept

One's self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure) is a collection of beliefs about oneself.

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Social privilege

In sociology, privilege is a concept used for certain rights or advantages that are available only to a particular person or group of people.

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Sue Gardner

Sue Gardner (born May 11, 1967) is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Register

The Register (nicknamed El Reg) is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.

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The Signpost

The Signpost (formerly The Wikipedia Signpost) is the English Wikipedia's online newspaper.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Transaction cost

In economics and related disciplines, a transaction cost is a cost in making any economic trade when participating in a market.

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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UNU-MERIT

The United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) is a joint research and training institute of United Nations University and Maastricht University, based in Maastricht in the southeastern part of the Netherlands.

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Virtual volunteering

Virtual volunteering refers to volunteer activities completed, in whole or in part, using the Internet and a home, school, telecenter, or work computer or other Internet-connected device, such as a smart-phone (a cell phone with Internet functions) or personal digital assistant (PDA).

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Wiki

A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser.

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Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia

Wiki-PR is a consulting firm that formerly marketed the ability to edit Wikipedia by "...directly edit your page using our network of established Wikipedia editors and admin." It was then banned, including all of its employees, contractors, and owners, by the Wikipedia community for unethical editing.

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Wikimania

Wikimania is the official annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content.

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Wikipedia administrators

On Wikipedia, trusted users may be appointed as administrators (also known as admins, sysops, and janitors), following a successful request for adminship.

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Wikipedia Monument

The Wikipedia Monument (Pomnik Wikipedii), located in Słubice, Poland, is a statue designed by Armenian sculptor Mihran Hakobyan honoring Wikipedia contributors.

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Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident

In May 2005, an anonymous editor posted a hoax article in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about journalist John Seigenthaler.

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Wikipedian in residence

A Wikipedian in residence or Wikimedian in residence (WiR) is a Wikipedia editor, a Wikipedian (or Wikimedian), who accepts a placement with an institution, typically an art gallery, library, archive or museum (GLAM), learned society, or institute of higher education (such as a university) to facilitate Wikipedia entries related to that institution's mission, encourage and assist it to release material under open licences, and to develop the relationship between the institution and the Wikimedia community.

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60 Minutes

60 Minutes is an American newsmagazine television program broadcast on the CBS television network.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_community

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