Getting and receiving information on railways, rail business opportunities and new market developments.

If one wants to stay up to date in any topic it requires a certain amount of effort. Not to receive information, but to filter it and get the relevant information picked out of the sheer mass of data. The same applies to the railway market.
Using the internet there is however a certain ease in [...]

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Wikipedia works

Again, working on Wikipedia, adding information on SIemens rail, but non-RST projects in Asia:

New Category for those projects
Info on the Shenzhen Metro
Delhi Metro
Beijing Metro

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Community-based content generation – circling around topics. Or: Further offsprings of the Wikipedia

Not only are there other projects based on the Wikimedia software out there, there are even companies, such as Wikia, offering ready to use Wiki-Systems for theme based content-generation.
Sure, so far the biggest wikis are around topics, such as Star Wars, Star Trek or Marvel Comics, each over 25 thousand articles, but there are also [...]

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Despite the Wiki

Everybody knows Wikipedia and everybody is using Wikipedia, either researching facts, revising old entries, updating the wiki with news on recent events or just curiously browsing pages learning new stunning things.
But what about all the other offspring’s of the Wikimedia Foundation? There is the Wiktionary, the Wikiquote, the Wikibooks, Wikisource, the Wikinews, the WikiCommons, the [...]

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Recent addings at Wikipedia

Hi recently chose to also work harder on Wikipedia and edited a few entries:

Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Rail
Beijing South Railway Station
The CRH3 Train Page

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