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Fast Forward Google Lists ‘Nazism’ As Ideology Of California Republican Party After Wikipedia Prank
With less than one week to go before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of California’s Republican Party, Vice News reported. On Thursday morning, under “ideology” the search engine listed the words “Nazism”, “Conservatism,” “Market liberalism,” “Fiscal conservatism” and “Green conservatism” when California Republican Party was searched. One white supremacist candidate running…
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Life At Edit-A-Thon, Expanding Wikipedia’s Offerings on Jewish Women
If the names Asnat Barazani, Devorà Ascarelli, and Clarice Baright don’t ring a bell for you, you’re not alone. The Center for Jewish History is setting out to change that. Barazani, a 17th-century scholar in Kurdistan, Ascarelli, a 16th-centrury poet who may have been the first Jewish women to ever have her work published, and…
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The Schmooze Jimmy Wales Talks Wikipedia and Neutrality in Israel
(JTA) — The article’s first iteration — published amid the bloody second intifada, or Palestinian uprising — called it a “security fence” and focused on Israeli support. Within a half-hour, another editor added a sentence about a United Nations condemnation. Later that day, the phrase “apartheid wall” appeared, using the Palestinians’ preferred term. Following thousands of…
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Fast Forward Wikipedia Chief Jimmy Wales Wins $1M Dan David Prize
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales will receive the Dan David Prize and $1 million for his contribution to the information revolution. Tel Aviv University on Tuesday announced the recipients of the international prize, which annually makes three awards for outstanding achievement in the categories of past, present and future time dimensions. Each award in a category…
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The Schmooze A Wikipedia for Jews
There’s a new craze among religious students in Israel. As regular folk get in on the act of shaping the world’s knowledge by writing, editing and improving articles on Wikipedia, religious students are busily working on their own Jewish Wikipedia-like project. The Responsa Project, run by Bar Ilan University, is digitizing tens of thousands of…
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Life WikiHome for the Jews: Where To Go and Where Not to Go
Visitors to the main page of the English language Wikipedia today were treated to a short history of New York’s Beth Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue. Every day Wikipedia features a short article that they think might interest their readers which, on the English site, is always an article in English. There are however 267 different languages…
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