atlanticwire writes:
Wikipedia and its gigabytes of data, when analyzed properly, can give you a pretty comprehensive visual overview of the history of world, since 1800. As pointed out on The New York Times Bits Blog, University of Illinois researcher Kalev Leetaru recently has been looking into Wikipedia as a source of very large data sets to be analyzed by supercomputers, part of a movement called Big Data. His computers scanned Wikipedia pages to pull out locations mentioned in articles and the historical dates corresponding to each mention.
Jimmy Wales anticipates that ‘WT:Social’ networking and the program will be set off as another substitute to Facebook and Twitter to share the news.
hell yeah another service to compromise even more your personal information, seriously from IT Engineer please use your brain a bit before sending your information to another unknown company.
"Our goal is not to catch up, but overtake."
Make sure it only contains primary documents and it will be perfect. No need for the 20-30% of misinformation Wikipedia includes.
Turkey just escalated its bid to silence online dissent.
