Is there a rival to Wikipedia?

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Don't you just loathe people who copy and paste straight out of wikipedia?

Don't you just loathe people who copy and paste straight out of wikipedia? Don't you just loathe people who copy and paste straight out of wikipedia? Don't you just loathe people who copy and paste straight out of wikipedia? Don't you just loathe people...

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MMM, whatever happened to, "put it into your own words"?

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Why does Wikipedia say Howard Stern is "LGBT"?

The Wikipedia list of "LGBT people from New York" includes Howard Stern. I don't think the "LGBT" part is accurate, but I don't see any way to edit it. How can I fix this? This also shows up at the bottom of Stern's Wikipedia page...

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The "LGBT people from New York" page is a Category, not a List (two different things in Wikipedia...

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Is there a relationship between the attributes of a Wikipedia page and the number of pageviews it gets, holding the topic of the Wikipedia page constant?

For instance, if I take an existing Wikipedia page and double its length by adding new content, and/or improve the references and citations, is the page likely to get more views? Obviously, longer and more detailed pages tend to have more pageviews because...

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One attribute or factor may be the extent to which a Wikipedia article is linked from other pages within...

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How do i shut down wikipedia?

i had lots of problems with wikipedia since like 2009, and been like deleting my articles for no reason, like wikipedia everything has to be true, and i know that, thats not the problem, i made a article about my webshow and it got deleted, then i started...

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i know how, but you must do a couple steps first. firstly, download Firefox or Google Chrome, either...

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Why are the Wikipedia templates not universal in all languages?

Coming from editing mostly English articles at the vast English Wikipedia, I was annoyed repeatedly to see that the German Wikipedia (my native language) does not share the same template bricks (I mean {{something}}) as the English Wikipedia. Instead...

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I sympathize with your frustration, but the reasons behind this unfortunate setup actually reflect one...

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What does Wikipedia think of Freebase and its sale to Google?

A second question as a follow-up to my initial question: What does Wikipedia (and the wikimedia foundation) think of Semantic Web version of the encyclopedia DBpedia?" This question is about what do Wikipedia's founder and foundation think of  companies...

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I would think very little. The Wikimedia Foundation is pretty big. I think you're asking more "...

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How can teachers teach the proper use of wikipedia? (Please read details before answering)?

A question I answered recently in the Biology forum, asked "How many genomes have been sequenced?" http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?… I found lots of excellent genome databases and scientific papers ... but nothing answered this...

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I do a lot of copy-editing on Wiki sites, and I am sufficiently well-educated in certain areas to recognize...

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What stops Wikipedia from changing its UI/UX?

Why does Wikipedia doesn't change or modify its UI/UX? I saw this excellent project: Wikipedia Redefined few months back. Apart from the great UI/UX, the whole concept seemed awesome as well. It was simple, elegant and not confusing at all. Why can't...

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Wikipedia's design is dominated by text because it's an online encyclopedia. Its top priority is getting...

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What does Wikipedia (and the wikimedia foundation) think of Semantic Web version of the encyclopedia DBpedia?

From their site: "DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web." From: wiki.dbpedia.org : About It aims to offer a variety of additional features...

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In general, I believe most people are okay with it. The only problems are: Firstly, Wikipedia changes...

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Wikipedia but without wikipedia

How can I work in MediaWiki mark-up language without installing MediaWiki locally or using any of the Wikimedia (eg. Wikipedia) projects? The goal here is to create Wikipedia content but not on Wikipedia, as a scratch page outside of Wikipedia, so once...

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LibreOffice with the Wiki Publisher extension (most newer versions of LibreOffice have this baked into...

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