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Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia

The Realtime Report

Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia. A system created by MIT researchers could be used to automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles, reducing time and effort spent by human editors who now do the task manually. There are so many updates constantly needed to Wikipedia articles.

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Twitter Launches Birdwatch, A Wikipedia-Style Approach To Fight Misinformation

Forbes Social Media

On Birdwatch, users will see crowdsourced notes from volunteers attached to tweets.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. Crowdsourcing has become increasingly more widely used because it helps cultivate creativity and innovation. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason.

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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. from Wikipedia ]. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? And my second question was… would BP listen to a crowdsourced solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks. So I had a look on crowdsourced business websites.

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YouTube Secrets, Content Curation and Writing Productivity Tips for Marketers!

Writtent Blog

4 Ideas for Crowdsourcing Content Creation and Promotion. The idea of crowdsourcing content is rather popular, and Wikipedia is one of the greatest examples but how do we implement it in our own content marketing strategy? Let’s emphasize a few points.

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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. Compare to Australia’s Future of Melbourne wiki or New Zealand crowdsourcing their Police Act. Oddsson was removed on 26 February 2009 ( wikipedia ). Metagovernment is alive and well. Not much fun.

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Mumbai Terror Attack on Social Media!

Atom Thought

If this was not enough: Within a few minutes a new page on Mumbai Terror attack was created on Wikipedia, with almost live feed and collaboration, and an embedded google map to display locations of impact. CrowdSourcing- The New Social Media Mantra to Sell Better! Related Posts: World's 1st NRI Video Talent Hunt!