Google Maps now integrates with Wikipedia (click "More" tab). Concharto is a geographic wiki for documenting historical events. Flick also has a map service.
posted on May 14, 2008 - View this thread

New Books In History. Historian Marshall Poe talks with other historians about their newly published books.
posted on Apr 18, 2008 - View this thread

Biographicon : crowd-sourcing non-notables.
posted on Apr 1, 2008 - View this thread

Wikipedia page hit statistics (finally).
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - View this thread

The Wikimedia Commons Picture(s) of the Year 2007.
posted on Feb 9, 2008 - View this thread

It was revealed last week that former Wikipedia Chief Operating Officer Carolyn Doran was a convicted felon, her prior record includes four convictions for driving under the influence, two of check fraud and petty larceny, one hit and run with fatality, one unlawful wounding for shooting a former boyfriend, suspect in a murder case, and some suspicion surrounding the drowning death of her newlywed husband. Senior Wikipedians are "shocked", and the waves are still reverberating as apparently something totally secret and big is going down at the Foundation (that runs Wikipedia) that may radically alter the board for better or worse.
posted on Dec 19, 2007 - View this thread

Live anonymous edits to the English Wikipedia on a Google map in real-time. (The FAQ)
posted on Oct 30, 2007 - View this thread

PediaPress. Print-on-demand compendiums of Wikipedia articles.
posted on Jul 18, 2006 - View this thread

New Scientist reports on German project to create a Semantic MediaWiki (MediaWiki is the software behind Wikipedia, Semantic is hidden/encoded meta-data). A sample page markup using the relations annotation. What do the Wikipedia (Wikimedia) folks think of implementing it? "Some members are keen, but some are dubious about additional complexity."
posted on Jun 8, 2006 - View this thread

Cellphedia is a thesis project created by Limor Garcia (NYU). It's a cell phone application that allows to send and receive encyclopedia-type inquiries through Text messaging. A user will be able to get all the information they need – from “how old is the queen of England?” to “how many miles is the Brooklyn Bridge?” – through a real-time social network, while walking in the street.
posted on May 3, 2005 - View this thread