Said honestly, it annoys me that whenever I perform a search on any search engine that Wikipedia results show up first so often. How to get Wikipedia Google search results to not show up can be done the manual way or the fancy way. Manual Way Simply add -wikipedia to any Google search term. The dash in front of wikipedia must be included. This tells Google,...

I’ve been noticing more often than not that the first search results I get when I search for anything in Google or Bing is a Wikipedia article. There are many people – yours truly included – that purposely avoid Wikipedia articles because in many instances the content there is either slightly incorrect, flat out wrong and/or I never wanted to...

You might have noticed recently that Wikipedia wants you (again) to fork over some cash in the form of a donation (click the screen shot right for larger image). This is nothing new, but what is new is that they have a goal of six million dollars. And they already have over 2 million. Can anyone tell me why the Wikimedia Foundation needs SIX MILLION DOLLARS and...

Never let it be said that computer scripts aren’t useful. Recently a *nix bash shell script was released that allows you to search Wikipedia right from the command prompt – and it works. You can try it out for yourself if you like (scroll down on that page for the script lines) to make your own wikipedia.sh. Some of you out there may read this and...

Dave Winer, a famous blogger who pretty much invented the concept of RSS and who’s work has led very directly to what so many of us (including me) do for a living, published his own view of what is wrong with Wikipedia. As Winer puts it, Wikipedia is devalued because the content on it can be gamed by people with an agenda. He uses the example of his own...