Your Guide to Wikipedia Tools & Resources
24 apr 2009
Your guide to some of the best Wikipedia tools, resources and hacks. Learn everything you wanted to do with Wikipedia.
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Interesting Wikipedia Mashups and Hacks
19 apr 2009
You have seen some useful Wikipedia tools, now let’s check out a couple of more interesting Wikipedia Mashups and hacks that make browsing Wikipedia wikis all the more fun.
Interesting Wikipedia Mashups & Hacks
Wiki Scanner – Be warned before you edit the Wikipedia entry of your own product or organization.
Should College Students Cite Wikipedia in their Academic Papers?
03 feb 2009
Stephen Colbert once made this remark on Wikipedia – ‘any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true.’
Read Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia Itself
27 jan 2009
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is popular how-to book on Wikipedia that has all the information you need to get started with editing pages on Wikipedia. You can now read or edit this book online on the Wikipedia website itself.
Download Offline Wikipedia DVD via BitTorrent
25 dec 2008
Finally, some good use of BitTorrent. Wikipedia edition for schools, which started back in 2006, has released a new edition comprising of over 5500 hand-picked Wikipedia articles in a single DVD.
Game Based on Shortest Path Between Two Wikipedia Articles
21 dec 2008
WikiWarp is a game based on finding out the shortest path between two Wikipedia articles. You start on a given article, and your aim is to get to the destination articles in as few clicks as possible.
Wikipedia Website Now Available for Mobile Devices
15 dec 2008
Wikipedia has launched a mobile phone optimized version of their encyclopedia website at mobile.wikipedia.org.
How to Open a Wikipedia table in Google Docs
15 dec 2008
Here is neat trick to load a Wikipedia data table in Google Docs.
Let’s take the list of countries by population for instance.
Google Docs allows HTML to be imported via the “=ImportHtml” function. The function requires the URL of the HTML document, the HTML element to extract data from (table) and the position of the HTML element (2nd table).
Read Wikipedia on Mobile Phones through Email
11 dec 2008
SnapAsk is useful for people who have e-mail access on the go (via cell phone, Blackberry, etc.) but their mobile browser is too slow. They can get information from the web via email.
Yahoo Glue Pages Now Available in all Countries
20 nov 2008
Yahoo Glue is like a more comprehensive version of Google Universal Search. Type in a search query and you can view web pages, news headlines, images, videos and even blog posts related to your search topic all on one easy-to read page.