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Microsoft Encarta Adopting Wikiesque Process
An anonymous reader writes "The MSN Encarta program manager announced that readers of Microsoft's encyclopedia articles can now edit articles in a Wikipedia-like fashion. Once submitted, edits are reviewed by Encarta staff members for accuracy, readability, and proofreading before being incorporated into the article." From the post: "To support this program, we've hired some new research editors. Their job will be to help you out with things like fact-checking, syntax, and editorial style. Every writer can use a good editor, and we see no reason that community contributors deserve any less." J adds: This won't be a big surprise, but "Your submissions to Encarta must be your own work" and "you grant Microsoft permission to use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Submission."
First Britannica takes over Wikipaedia, and now, one week later, Encarta announces wikification? What a world we live in!
1. Imitate what is obviously an excellent encyclopedia system.
2. Patent it under some dumb name.
3. ???
4. Profit! In Soviet Microsoft, software patents edit YOU!!!
Seriously, though, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, etc...
The difference between spam and poop is that you don't have to dig through septic tanks looking for real food. -- Me
Get ready for a stream of jokes about how /. should do the same...
What are the odds that they'd approve this article? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
will their encyclopedia be digitally signed?
I don't know how I can trust it otherwise.
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
Bud Light Presents Real Men of Genius
(Real Men of Genius)
Today we salute you Mr. Aaron Patterson
(Mr. Aaron Patterson)
Where would this world be without you and your innovations like typing www.en.wikkipedia.org into your address bar and copying virtually every feature off of it.
(Mr Copycat)
Thanks you for giving us the brilliant new features of user contributions and a clean fresh design just like www.en.wikkipedia.org.
(Who do you think you're fooling?)
Few men are brave enough to steal an idea and call it their own, but you have no problem posting about it on your blog.
(Look at ME!)
So crack open an ice cold Bud Light Mr Aaron Patterson You have high standands when it come to the online encyclopedia industry, and intelectual property
(Mr. Aaron Patterson)
Top 10 Reasons To Procrastinate
10.
1) Monopoly
2) Linux
3) SCO
4) Longhorn
5) U.S. Department of Justice
The end is the beginning, the end of days, dogs and cats living together. Tux and Clippy playing ring around the posie (sp?)
Schroedinger's select: I choose all possible states, to be resolved when someone actually tries the process.
Microsoft releases WinXP kernel under GPL
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
The neutrality of this article is undisputed.
..Thank goodness for innovation!
now wheres that patent application?
Starsucks
Anyone want to bet that their "fact checkers" just head over to wikipedia to check the submissions?
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
So, here are the interesting features they've added -- in their own words:
(1) The "Encarta Answers" service for getting instant answers to your questions will be available in four new languages. Repeat "FOUR" new languages. Boy, was that tough!
(2) Whole site gets a new makeover, with a simpler, cleaner design. It makes all of our pages load a bit faster, too. Yep, we figure somehow clean sites are not only cleaner, they are a lot clear too. And that makes more space for all those ads too.
(4) Last but not least, we stopped showing ads to Encarta Premium users! This is something that many of you have asked for, and we decided to do the right thing for our customers. Look, no ads when you pay. Now are we great customer lovers or what!
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The third feature will be due next version.
The wheel? It's been done.
We really should have patented busting child pornographers, UNIX permissions and Wikis a long time ago... ...we'd be ROLLING in it, for fucks sake.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Microsoft is making an open source kiddy porn wiki?
Shouldn't there be a "hint hint" or "cough cough" or something at the end of your post?
This post is brought to you by the letters B, S and D.
How about nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Say no more.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.
Searching encarta for "pope john paul II" would make you think the guy has risen from the grave.
Microsoft Writes Open Source Child Porn Buster
Ah, my mistake. I thought you were addressing me as Buster and suggesting that Microsoft was writing Open Source Child Porn.
I mean, really, is Microsoft above alleging a connection between Child Porn and Open Source Software?
I'm sure Dr. Oxford himself would concur regarding such a connection, after all.
for a group of people who hate Microsoft, they sure do talk about it a lot. Kind of like the Republicans and Gay Marriage?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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