· Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, editor-in-chief. New York: Macmillan, 1990. 4 volumes. ISBN 0-02-896090-4, p. 1404 https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/microsoft%20word%20-%206041.pdf https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comprehensive_report_of_Einsatzgruppe_A_up_to_15_Oct...
In 1996Jimmy Wales, a successful bond trader, moved toSan Diego, to establish Bomis, Inc., a web portal company. In March 2000 Wales foundedNupedia, a free online encyclopedia, withLarry Sangeras editor in chief.Nupediawas organized like existing encyclopedias, with an advisory board of experts...
Its principal figures were Jimmy Wales, Bomis CEO, and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia. Nupedia was licensed initially under its own Nupedia Open Content License, switching to the GFDL before Wikipedia's founding at the urging of Richard Stallman.[31] On January ...
Wired Magazine editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson asked Heilman, "Do you think that social distancing is working?" "Yes, definitely. You know, we have a good understanding of the transmission of disease. You know, if everybody was to hold entirely still for four weeks, this disease would be...
The Verge's own star — shown above — links to Wikipedia pages forTimemagazine,Engadget, andThe New York Times, as well as more esoteric concepts like consumer electronics, podcasts, and the position of editor-in-chief, situated on the other side of the Wikiverse. Closer to home, our st...
aren’t lost to posterity. It is thanks to her that the website has pages on Magdalena Skipper, the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the journalNature, Jo Dunkley, the astrophysicist and science communicator at Princeton University, and almost 900 other pioneering women...
Here’s a bit more on the history of Wikipedia. It all started when Jimmy Wales established Bomis, Inc., a web portal company, in 1996. By March 2000, Wales had introduced “Nupedia” to the world. This was a free online encyclopaedia that had an editor in chief, and a team of indi...
Editor-in-Chief John Huey was asked how his staffers made sure their stories were correct, he jokingly responded, "Wikipedia." It's unclear if many newsrooms have formal policies banning Wikipedia attribution in their stories, but many have informal ones. At the Philadelphia Inquirer, which ...
“TheChinese Encyclopediais not a book, but a Great Wall of culture,” Yang Muzhi, the project’s editor-in-chief and chairman of the Book and Periodicals Distribution Association of China, said at an event last month. “Our goal is not to catch up, but overtake.” ...
Users are invited to edit and correct the articles on the website, creating a source of public knowledge actually reviewed by the public. The unique and powerful open source industrial model is discussed.AndersonThe editor in chief of Wired magazineChrisThe editor in chief of Wired magazineTime...