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which argued that while the situation wasn't handled well by Knowledge editors, the underlying problem of how to handle conflicts over established narratives and newer, less supported theories was a fixture of standard historiographical discourse, and that Knowledge therefore was in some ways being
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arguing that Knowledge's positioning was a fairly predictable result of its articles being typically on-topic and well-developed. Heavy inbound linking to Knowledge was credited for giving the site a significant boost while its well-structured system of wikilinks was said to have distributed these
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by Gamercast to have used Knowledge data to provide biographies of many of the historic characters that appear in the game. Players curious about the historical depth of characters such as vassals and bishops will be able to quickly access Knowledge-sourced information on
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Researcher, Dr Nicola Reavley and her colleagues discovered that the quality of information on depression and schizophrenia on Knowledge was generally as good as, or better than that provided by centrally controlled websites or psychiatry textbooks.
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I'm a bit concerned that Wikiqueer's purpose appears to overlap quite entirely with that of Knowledge itself. Unless they plan to have looser notability criteria or something. A lot of their seed content is actually from Knowledge.
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and a psychiatry textbook, judging them on how up to date, easy to use, broad in scope, well-researched and accurate the information they provided was. The results spoke favourably of Knowledge's record at a time when editors are
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pointed out, uses WatchMouse, a SaaS-based server monitoring tool from Nimsoft, to keep up with what's going on on Knowledge and the sister projects. The performance status of Wikimedia services can be checked live
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by Intelligent Positioning which showed that out of a sample of 1000 randomly selected nouns, Knowledge featured on page 1 of the search results 99% of the time, and in first place 56% of the time. Econsultancy
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by arguing that the focus on single-word nouns in the test meant that it was not representative of real-world searches, and that the study was of limited usefulness as a consequence.
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The external link in the second to last brief (FA gets attention) doesn't work. It redirects to a general listing of social media news, on which I cannot find the story.
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Knowledge is the leading source for online information concerning mental health, researchers at the University of Melbourne concluded in research
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that Knowledge scores 100 of 100 points on preserving the privacy of its user traffic according to the PrivacyChoice rating, called
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made attempts to rapidly adapt the historical record to changes in prevailing opinion in the face of new evidence difficult.
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Research publicised this month concluded that Knowledge is the best online source of mental health information, outstripping
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world went through one of its periodic fits of interest in Knowledge's position in the search results, triggered by
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to convince Israeli state institutions to embrace the facilitation of free culture. Lastly, the block of
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Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing
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about the standards of the encyclopaedia's medical and health-related content:
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beneficial effects across topic areas. Search Engine Land meanwhile
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by Pinknews. The project is being led by long-standing Wikipedian
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held to an unreasonably high standard. National Public Radio ran
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Knowledge editor responds to ‘Critical Race Theory’ edit war
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aimed at driving improvements of the 150,000 article-strong
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concerning Knowledge's treatment of scholarly disagreement
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this month. The scholars assessed 14 sources, including
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Get the latest headlines on your user page – just add
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Thanks for the note; I have replaced the link with a
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