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Webby Award 2004 Winners Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the weblightful dept.

ivar writes "Over at the official site, the 2004 Webby Award Winners have been announced. There were a few surprises given the last publicly viewable rankings - I guess they keep the last few days in secrecy for a reason." The press release announcing the winners has more detail, noting: "Reflecting the egalitarian spirit of the internet, winners ranged from Wikipedia.org (Best Community), a free, community-built encyclopedia, to the official site for the Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War (Best Film), to web powerhouses like Google (Best Practices and Best Services)."

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  1. Wikipedia community by Raul654 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably the best community page on Wikipedia to get to know people in the community is Wikipedia:Wikipdians. It's a listing of all the differnet indices of Wikipedians. (I personally started Wikipedians by age and the Facebook)

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  2. Re:Just so long as no Flash sites won. by pjt33 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Afraid the Broadband category winner has a URL ending /index_flash.html

  3. BBC by RonnyJ · · Score: 4, Informative

    The BBC also have an article about this, predictably considering they also won three awards. They won best news, sports and educational coverage, which really does show how great a resource they are.

  4. Re:Wikipedia by Shapemaker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmm, weird. Mathematics, physics, particle physics, basic and advanced chemistry... I've followed those "threads" quite extensively and I've yet to find a blatant error/nonsense. Of course there are lots of stubs (or just placeholders), but that is just waiting to be rectified. You're right, though, when you say that there's too little existing information in many cases.

    As for the politics, I cannot comment as I've only contributed occasionally and anonymously. I certainly hope it's not THAT bad as other people have suggested...

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  5. Lord Kenneth misbehaves on a regular basis by Goonie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Might I point out that Lord Kenneth is a known miscreant who has pulled a number of stunts like this. Keep that in mind when evaluating the worth of his criticisms.

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  6. Re:Borderline waste of time by UserGoogol · · Score: 3, Informative

    Two steps. Turing links to World War Two, which links to China.

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