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"Hello, World!" program
A "Hello, World!" program is a computer program that outputs or displays "Hello, World!" to a user.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
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Advertising
Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
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Afrikaans Wikipedia
The Afrikaans Wikipedia () is an Afrikaans edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Alan Mcilwraith
Alan Mcilwraith (born 3 March 1978) is a former call centre worker from Glasgow, Scotland, who was exposed as a military imposter by a tabloid newspaper, after he passed himself off as a much-decorated British Army officer.
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Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is an American company based in California that provides commercial web traffic data and analytics.
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All Things Digital
AllThingsD.com was an online publication that specialized in technology and startup company news, analysis and coverage.
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Alternative terms for free software
Alternative terms for free software, such as open source, FOSS, and FLOSS, have been a controversial issue among free and open-source software users from the late 1990s onwards.
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Arabic Wikipedia
The Arabic Wikipedia () is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia.
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As We May Think
"As We May Think" is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society.
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
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Atze Schröder
Atze Schröder is a German comedy character played by Hubertus Albers born 27 September 1965, Emsdetten, Germany.
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Baidu Baike
Baidu Baike"." Baidu.
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Bandwidth (computing)
In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Beate Eriksen
Beate Marie Eriksen (born 19 October 1960) is a Norwegian actress and director.
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Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann is a German multinational corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Blacksburg, Virginia
Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census.
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Block of Wikipedia in Turkey
On 29 April 2017, Turkish authorities blocked online access to all language editions of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia throughout Turkey.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").
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Bomis
Bomis (to rhyme with "promise") was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia.
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Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle is a daily newspaper published in Bozeman, Montana.
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Brand
A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes of the customer.
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Brian Bergstein
Brian Bergstein is the National Technology Editor for the American Associated Press news agency, based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Brian Leveson
Sir Brian Henry Leveson (born 22 June 1949) is an English judge, currently the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice.
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Business development
Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Camel case
Camel case (stylized as camelCase or CamelCase; also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing compound words or phrases such that each word or abbreviation in the middle of the phrase begins with a capital letter, with no intervening spaces or punctuation.
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Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML.
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Catalan language
Catalan (autonym: català) is a Western Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin and named after the medieval Principality of Catalonia, in northeastern modern Spain.
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Catalan Wikipedia
The Catalan Wikipedia () is the Catalan-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Categorization
Categorization is the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood.
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Cathy Cox
Lera Catharine "Cathy" Cox (born 1958) is the Dean of Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University.
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CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
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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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Chicago Options Associates
Chicago Options Associates (COA) is a finance company in Chicago, Illinois which specializes in trading options and futures contracts.
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Chinese Wikipedia
The Chinese Wikipedia is the (Standard) Chinese language edition of Wikipedia.
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Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide
Over a three-day period between June 22 and June 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a 40-year-old veteran professional wrestler employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), killed his wife Nancy Benoit and strangled their 7-year-old son Daniel before hanging himself.
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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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CNET
CNET (stylized as c|net) is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.
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Computer hardware
Computer hardware includes the physical parts or components of a computer, such as the central processing unit, monitor, keyboard, computer data storage, graphic card, sound card and motherboard.
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ComScore
comScore is an American media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers.
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Conrad Burns
Conrad Ray Burns (January 25, 1935 – April 28, 2016) was a United States Senator from Montana and later a lobbyist.
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Copyright infringement
Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.
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Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
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Criticism of Wikipedia
Criticism of Wikipedia—of its content, procedures, and operations, and of the Wikipedia community—covers many subjects, topics, and themes about the nature of Wikipedia as an open-source encyclopedia of subject entries that almost anyone can edit.
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Crystal Mangum
Crystal Gail Mangum (born July 18, 1978) is a woman from Durham, North Carolina, who is best known for making false allegations of rape against lacrosse players in the 2006 Duke lacrosse case.
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DDL intercettazioni
DDL Intercettazioni or the Wiretapping Bill is a piece of legislation put periodically before the Italian Parliament, but never passed through.
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Defamation
Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.
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Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia
Deletionism and inclusionism are opposing philosophies that largely developed and came to public notice within the context of the community of editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
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Dictionary
A dictionary, sometimes known as a wordbook, is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.
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Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com is an online dictionary whose domain was first registered on May 14, 1995.
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Die Welt
Die Welt ("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE.
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Digital Universe
Digital Universe was a free online information service founded in 2006.
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Disk image
A disk image, in computing, is a computer file containing the contents and structure of a disk volume or of an entire data storage device, such as a hard disk drive, tape drive, floppy disk, optical disc or USB flash drive.
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Domain Name System
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.
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Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the Y2K crash, the Y2K bubble, the tech bubble, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic economic bubble and period of excessive speculation that occurred roughly from 1997 to 2001, a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet.
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Dutch Wikipedia
The Dutch Wikipedia (|) is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.
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El Hormiguero
El Hormiguero (Spanish for "The Anthill") is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and guest interviews running since September 2006.
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Election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
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Encarta
Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009.
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Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language wiki encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Encyclopédie
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (English: Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts), better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.
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Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia or encyclopaedia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of information from either all branches of knowledge or from a particular field or discipline.
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English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Esperanto Wikipedia
The Esperanto Wikipedia (or Esperanta Vikipedio) is the Esperanto edition of Wikipedia, which was started on 11 May 2001, alongside the Basque Wikipedia.
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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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Ezbet El Borg
Ezbet El Borg (عزبة البرج,; also transliterated, lit. Village of the Tower) is a coastal city with a large fishing industry in Damietta Governorate, Egypt.
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Failover
In computing and related technologies such as networking, failover is switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active application, server, system, hardware component, or network.
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Flag of Kazakhstan
The current flag of Kazakhstan or Kazakh flag (Қазақстан туы, Qazaqstan týy) was adopted on 4 June 1992, replacing the flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Florence Devouard
Florence Jacqueline Sylvie Devouard, née Nibart (born 10 September 1968) was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation between October 2006 and July 2008.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Forced settlements in the Soviet Union
Forced settlements in the Soviet Union took several forms.
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Fork (software development)
In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.
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Formula One
Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.
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Foundation (nonprofit)
A foundation (also a charitable foundation) is a legal category of nonprofit organization that will typically either donate funds and support to other organizations, or provide the source of funding for its own charitable purposes.
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Fox News
Fox News (officially known as the Fox News Channel, commonly abbreviated to FNC) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.
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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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Free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
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Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.
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French Wikipedia
The French Wikipedia (|) is the French-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Fuzzy Zoeller
Frank Urban "Fuzzy" Zoeller Jr. (born November 11, 1951) is an American professional golfer who has won ten PGA Tour events including two major championships.
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General Directorate for Internal Security
The General Directorate for Internal Security (Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure, DGSI) is a French intelligence agency.
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German Wikipedia
The German Wikipedia (|) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.
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Gil Gutknecht
Gilbert William Gutknecht Jr. (born March 20, 1951) is an American politician.
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GNE (encyclopedia)
GNE (previously known as GNUPedia) was a project to create a free content encyclopedia (licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License) under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation.
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GNU Free Documentation License
The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project.
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God
In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.
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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
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Google (verb)
As a result of the increasing popularity and dominance of the Google search engine, usage of the transitive verb to google (also spelled Google) grew ubiquitously. The neologism commonly refers to searching for information on the World Wide Web, regardless of which search engine is used. The American Dialect Society chose it as the "most useful word of 2002." It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006, and to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006.
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is an American foundation established by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore and his wife Betty I. Moore in September 2000 to support path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements and preservation of the special character of the Bay Area.
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Gratis versus libre
The English adjective free is commonly used in one of two meanings: "for free" (gratis) and "with little or no restriction" (libre).
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GreatFire
GreatFire (GreatFire.org) is a non-profit organization that monitors the status of websites censored by the Great Firewall of China and helps Chinese Internet users circumvent the censorship and blockage of websites in China.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Hard coding
Hard coding (also hard-coding or hardcoding) is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to obtaining the data from external sources or generating it at run-time.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Hastings, New Zealand
Hastings (Heretaunga) is a New Zealand city and is one of the two major urban areas in Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Hebrew Wikipedia
The Hebrew Wikipedia () is the Hebrew language edition of Wikipedia.
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History of wikis
The history of wikis is generally dated from 1994, when Ward Cunningham gave the name "WikiWikiWeb" to the knowledge base, which ran on his company's website at c2.com, and the wiki software that powered it.
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Hitwise
Hitwise is a division of Connexity, that measures behavior across desktop, tablet and smartphone devices.
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Hungarian Wikipedia
The Hungarian Wikipedia is the Hungarian/Magyar version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Hyperlink
In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow either by clicking, tapping, or hovering.
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Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, or where text can be revealed progressively at multiple levels of detail (also called StretchText).
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Indiegogo
Indiegogo is an international crowdfunding website founded in 2008 by Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin, and Eric Schell.
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Information World Review
Information World Review is an English monthly trade magazine covering the information industry.
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InformationWeek
InformationWeek is a digital magazine which conducts corresponding face-to-face events, virtual events, and research.
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Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom)
The Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom (often The IPO) is, since 2 April 2007, the operating name of The Patent Office.
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International Standard Book Number
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique numeric commercial book identifier.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.
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Internet bot
An Internet Bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply -bot-, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet.
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Interpedia
Interpedia was one of the first-proposed Internet encyclopedias which would allow anyone to contribute by writing articles and submitting them to the central catalogue of all Interpedia pages.
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IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
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IPod
The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on October 23, 2001, about months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released.
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Iranian peoples
The Iranian peoples, or Iranic peoples, are a diverse Indo-European ethno-linguistic group that comprise the speakers of the Iranian languages.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Italian Parliament
The Italian Parliament (Parlamento Italiano) is the national parliament of the Italian Republic.
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Italian Wikipedia
The Italian Wikipedia (|) is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia.
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Japanese Wikipedia
The is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia.
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Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen (born May 5, 1956) is a liberal media critic, writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University.
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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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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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Joe Connor (baseball)
Joseph Francis Connor (December 8, 1874 – November 8, 1957) was an American right-handed Major League Baseball catcher.
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Jordanhill railway station
Jordanhill railway station is a side platformed suburban railway station in the Jordanhill area in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Justin Knapp
Justin Anthony Knapp (born November 18, 1982), known online as Koavf, is an American Wikipedia user who was the first person to contribute more than one million edits to Wikipedia.
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Kanab ambersnail
The Kanab ambersnail, scientific name Oxyloma haydeni kanabense or Oxyloma kanabense, is a critically endangered subspecies or species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Succineidae, the amber snails.
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Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born 5 December 1971) is a German businessman and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU).
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Kuro5hin
Kuro5hin (K5; "corrosion") was a collaborative discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.
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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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Lee Daniel Crocker
Lee Daniel Crocker (born July 3, 1963) is an American computer programmer.
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Leveson Inquiry
The Leveson inquiry was a judicial public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press following the News International phone hacking scandal, chaired by Lord Justice Leveson, who was appointed in July 2011.
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Library catalog
A library catalog or library catalogue is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations.
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Library of Alexandria
The Royal Library of Alexandria or Ancient Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world.
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Library of Pergamum
The Library of Pergamum in Pergamum, Turkey, was one of the most important libraries in the ancient world.
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Linux
Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.
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List of Wikimedia chapters
Wikimedia chapters are national or sub-national not-for-profit organisations created to promote the interests of Wikimedia projects locally.
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List of Wikipedia controversies
Since the launch of Wikipedia in January, 2001, a number of controversies have occurred.
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List of Wikipedias
This is the list of the different language editions of Wikipedia; there are 301 Wikipedias of which 291 are active and 10 are not.
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List of wikis
This page contains a list of notable websites that use a wiki model.
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LiveJournal
LiveJournal (Живой Журнал), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian (originally American) social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary.
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Logo
A logo (abbreviation of logotype, from λόγος logos "word" and τύπος typos "imprint") is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.
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Look and feel
In software design, look and feel is a term used in respect of a graphical user interface and comprises aspects of its design, including elements such as colors, shapes, layout, and typefaces (the "look"), as well as the behavior of dynamic elements such as buttons, boxes, and menus (the "feel").
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Lutz Heilmann
Lutz Heilmann (born September 7, 1966 in Zittau, GDR) is a German politician of the left-wing party Die Linke.
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Magnus Manske
Heinrich Magnus Manske (born 24 May 1974) is a senior staff scientist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and a software developer of one of the first versions of the MediaWiki software.
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Mailing list
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.
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Mainstream media
Mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence a large number of people, and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.
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Marty Meehan
Martin Thomas "Marty" Meehan (born December 30, 1956) is an educator, a politician, and a lawyer.
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Mashable
Mashable is a digital media website founded by Pete Cashmore in 2005.
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MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software.
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Memex
The memex (originally coined "at random", though sometimes said to be a portmanteau of "memory" and "index") is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think".
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Michael Mandiberg
Michael Mandiberg (born December 22, 1977) is an American artist, programmer, designer and educator.
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Microform
Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents, typically either films or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
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MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review is a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal) or Montréal–Trudeau, formerly known as Montréal–Dorval International Airport (Aéroport international Montréal-Dorval), is an international airport serving Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located on the Island of Montreal, from Downtown Montreal.
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MSNBC
MSNBC is an American news cable and satellite television network that provides news coverage and political commentary from NBC News on current events.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Mundaneum
The Mundaneum is a non profit organisation based in Mons, Belgium that runs an exhibition space, website and archive which celebrate the legacy of the original Mundaneum established by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine in the early twentieth century.
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Munich
Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.
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Namespace
In computing, a namespace is a set of symbols that are used to organize objects of various kinds, so that these objects may be referred to by name.
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National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Foundation copyright dispute
In July 2009, lawyers representing the National Portrait Gallery of London (NPG) sent an email letter warning of possible legal action for alleged copyright infringement to Derrick Coetzee, an editor/administrator of the free content multimedia repository Wikimedia Commons, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Neil Warnock
Neil Warnock (born 1 December 1948) is an English football manager, currently managing Welsh side Cardiff City.
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Network Solutions
Network Solutions, LLC is an American-based technology company founded in 1979.
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Norm Coleman
Norman Bertram Coleman Jr., (born August 17, 1949) is an American lobbyist, attorney, and politician.
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Norwegian Wikipedia
There are two Norwegian language editions of Wikipedia: one for articles written in Bokmål or Riksmål, and one for articles written in Nynorsk.
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Nupedia
Nupedia was an English-language web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with appropriate subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication, and licensed as free content.
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Online encyclopedia
An online encyclopedia is an encyclopedia accessible through the internet, such as Wikipedia.
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Open-source model
The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.
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OTRS
OTRS is a service management suite that comprises ticketing, workflow automation and notification, along with a wide range of customizable features.
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Page view
A page view, or more commonly now pageview, abbreviated in business to PV and occasionally called page impression, is a request to load a single HTML file (web page) of an Internet site.
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Paul Otlet
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called "documentation".
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PC Advisor
PC Advisor is a monthly computer magazine, released in the UK & Ireland, and website published by IDG.
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PC Magazine
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
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Peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
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Perl
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages, Perl 5 and Perl 6.
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Persoonia terminalis
Persoonia terminalis, also known as the Torrington geebung, is a rare shrub belonging to the family Proteaceae, and native to northern New South Wales and southern Queensland in eastern Australia.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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PHP
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (or simply PHP) is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language.
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Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station
The Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station is a site used for French military communications.
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Polish Wikipedia
The Polish Wikipedia () is the Polish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia.
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Portuguese Wikipedia
The Portuguese Wikipedia () is the Portuguese language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free encyclopedia.
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Predictions of Wikipedia's end
Various publications and commentators have offered a range of predictions of the end of Wikipedia.
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Press release
A press release, news release, media release, press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy.
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Print Wikipedia
Print Wikipedia is an art project by Michael Mandiberg that printed 106 of the 7,473 volumes of English Wikipedia as it existed on April 7, 2015 and also included wallpaper displaying 1,980 additional volumes.
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Printing press
A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
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Programmer
A programmer, developer, dev, coder, or software engineer is a person who creates computer software.
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Programming tool
A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications.
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Project Xanadu
Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson.
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PROTECT IP Act
The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA) was a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to the sale of infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside the U.S. The bill was introduced on May 12, 2011, by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and 11 bipartisan co-sponsors.
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Protests against SOPA and PIPA
On January 18, 2012, a series of coordinated protests occurred against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
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Purch Group
Purch Group, Inc. formerly known as TechMediaNetworks, Inc.
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Qatar
Qatar (or; قطر; local vernacular pronunciation), officially the State of Qatar (دولة قطر), is a sovereign country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
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RAF raid on La Caine (1944)
The RAF raid on the ''Panzergruppe West'' headquarters at La Caine in Normandy was an attack by the Second Tactical Air Force of the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 10 June 1944.
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Reach (S Club 7 song)
"Reach" is a song by the English pop group S Club 7.
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Rewrite (programming)
A rewrite in computer programming is the act or result of re-implementing a large portion of existing functionality without re-use of its source code or writing inscription.
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Richard J. Jensen
Richard Joseph Jensen (born October 24, 1941) is an American historian, who was professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from 1973 to 1996.
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Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms—is an American free software movement activist and programmer.
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Rick Gates (Internet pioneer)
Rick Gates (born October 18, 1956) is an Internet pioneer mostly known because he organized The Internet Hunt and raised the ideas of Interpedia.
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Rick Jelliffe
Richard (Rick) Alan Jelliffe (born 1960) is an Australian programmer and standards activist (ISO, W3C, IETF), particularly associated with web standards, markup languages, internationalization and schema languages.
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Romanization of Japanese
The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.
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Ronnie Hazlehurst
Ronald Hazlehurst (13 March 1928 – 1 October 2007) credited as Ronnie Hazlehurst, was an English composer and conductor who, having joined the BBC in 1961, became its Light Entertainment Musical Director.
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Russian Wikipedia
The Russian Wikipedia (Ruskaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia.
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S Club 7
S Club 7 were an English pop group from London created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller consisting of members Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens, Jo O'Meara, Hannah Spearritt, Bradley McIntosh, and Jon Lee.
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San Diego
San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.
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Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality, who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (a common name for Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996) is a landmark piece of Internet legislation in the United States, codified at.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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Serbian Wikipedia
The Serbian Wikipedia (Serbian) is the Serbian-language version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Server (computing)
In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called "clients".
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Server farm
A server farm or server cluster is a collection of computer servers – usually maintained by an organization to supply server functionality far beyond the capability of a single machine.
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Signature block
A signature block (often abbreviated as signature, sig block, sig file,.sig, dot sig, siggy, or just sig) is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an email message, Usenet article, or forum post.
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Slashdot
Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.
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Slashdot effect
The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic.
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Smartphone
A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi.
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Sockpuppet (Internet)
A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception.
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Software
Computer software, or simply software, is a generic term that refers to a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built, that actually performs the work.
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SourceForge
SourceForge is a Web-based service that offers software developers a centralized online location to control and manage free and open-source software projects.
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Spanish Wikipedia
The Spanish Wikipedia () is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia.
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Stop Online Piracy Act
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was a controversial United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods.
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Style guide
A style guide (or manual of style) is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization, or field.
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Subdomain
In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is a part of a main domain.
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Susning.nu
Susning.nu was a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson (also the founder of Project Runeberg).
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Swedish Wikipedia
The Swedish Wikipedia (|) is the Swedish-language edition of Wikipedia and was started on 23 May 2001.
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Syllabus
A syllabus (plural syllabuses or syllabi) is an academic document that communicates course information and defines expectations and responsibilities.
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Systemic bias
Systemic bias, also called institutional bias, is the inherent tendency of a process to support particular outcomes.
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Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.
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Taner Akçam
Altuğ Taner Akçam (born in Ardahan, Turkey, October 23, 1953) is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist.
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Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist.
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TeX
TeX (see below), stylized within the system as TeX, is a typesetting system (or "formatting system") designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Left (Germany)
The Left (Die Linke), also commonly referred to as the Left Party (die Linkspartei), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany.
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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 New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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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 Roanoke Times
The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune is an American metropolitan daily newspaper, published in San Diego, California. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The name changed to U-T San Diego in 2012 but was changed again to The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015. In 2015, it was acquired by Tribune Publishing, later renamed tronc. In February 2018 it was announced to be sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital LLC for $500 million plus $90m in pension liabilities. The sale closed on June 18, 2018.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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The Wikipedia Revolution
The Wikipedia Revolution: How A Bunch of Nobodies Created The World's Greatest Encyclopedia is a 2009 popular history book by new media researcher and writer Andrew Lih.
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Thesaurus
In general usage, a thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which provides definitions for words, and generally lists them in alphabetical order.
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Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Transclusion
In computer science, transclusion is the inclusion of part or all of an electronic document into one or more other documents by hypertext reference.
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Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
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Trustee
Trustee (or the holding of a trusteeship) is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, is a synonym for anyone in a position of trust and so can refer to any person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another.
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Tsunami
A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
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Tweakers
Tweakers (formerly called Tweakers.net) is a Dutch technology website featuring news and information about hardware, software and the Internet.
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United States Census
The United States Census is a decennial census mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States...
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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United States Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia
Some edits to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia by staff of the United States Congress have created controversy, notably in early to mid-2006.
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (in case citations, 11th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.
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United States presidential election, 2008
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election.
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URL
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
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UseModWiki
UseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language.
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User (computing)
A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service.
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Utrecht (province)
Utrecht is a province of the Netherlands.
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Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project.
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Vietnamese Wikipedia
The Vietnamese Wikipedia () is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Virginia Tech shooting
On April 16, 2007, a school shooting occurred at West Ambler Johnston Hall and Norris Hall at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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VisualEditor
VisualEditor (VE) is a project to provide a "visual" or "WYSIWYG-like" online rich-text editor as a MediaWiki extension to Wikipedia.
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Volapük
Volapük (in English; in Volapük) is a constructed language, created in 1879 and 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany.
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Walter Sedlmayr
Walter Sedlmayr (6 January 1926 – 14 July 1990) was a popular German stage, television, and film actor from Bavaria.
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Waray Wikipedia
The Waray Wikipedia is the Waray language edition of Wikipedia.
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Ward Cunningham
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki.
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Web 2.0
Web 2.0 refers to World Wide Web websites that emphasize user-generated content, usability (ease of use, even by non-experts), and interoperability (this means that a website can work well with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.
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WebCite
WebCite is an on-demand archiving service, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by making snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger, or a scholar or a Wikipedia editor cited or quoted from it.
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Western Mail (Wales)
The Western Mail is a daily newspaper published by Media Wales Ltd in Cardiff, Wales owned by the UK's largest newspaper company, Trinity Mirror.
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WHOIS
WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other information.
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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 software
Wiki software (also known as a wiki engine or wiki application) is a collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows users to create and collaboratively edit "pages" or entries via a web browser.
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Wikia
Wikia, also known as FANDOM (fully FANDOM powered by Wikia) and formerly known as Wikicities, is a wiki hosting service.
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Wikibooks
Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content e-book textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
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Wikidata
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Wikimania
Wikimania is the official annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is an online repository of free-use images, sounds, and other media files.
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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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Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia UK (WMUK) is a registered charity established to support volunteers in the United Kingdom who work on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.
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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 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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Wikipedia Zero
Wikipedia Zero was a project by the Wikimedia Foundation to provide Wikipedia free of charge on mobile phones via zero-rating, particularly in developing markets.
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Wikiquote
Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software.
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Wikisource
Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities.
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WikiWikiWeb
The WikiWikiWeb is the first-ever wiki, or user-editable website.
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Wiktionary
Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of all words in all languages.
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Willem Holleeder
Willem Frederik Holleeder (born 29 May 1958) is a Dutch criminal.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber
Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber are German half-brothers who were convicted of the 1990 murder of actor Walter Sedlmayr.
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Word processor
A word processor is a computer program or device that provides for input, editing, formatting and output of text, often plus other features.
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World Brain
World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936–1938.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.
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WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get".
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..
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.com
The domain name com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
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.org
The domain name org is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) of the Domain Name System (DNS) used in the Internet.
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December with the epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
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274301 Wikipedia
274301 Wikipedia, provisional designation, is an asteroid orbiting in the inner region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.
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References
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