Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Workin’ Like Robots

Trouble Crops Up At The Agriculture Ministry

Japan’s Agriculture Ministry has reprimanded six civil servants who spent hours at work editing articles on Wikipedia - mainly about robots. One man was found to have made 260 entries to articles about Gundam, a popular animated series featuring giant robotic fighting machines.

FOOTNOTE: They were animated about their duties.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Trivia Pur$uit

Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that gets seven billion page views a month, has only five full-time employees on its staff! Jimmy Wales. its founder, recently announced plans to take on Google by developing an open-source search engine.