Wikipedia Reaches 10 Million Total Articles
[Truemors] Online open content encyclopedia Wikipedia has hit an impressive milestone with 10 million total articles. The huge number takes into account all the articles available in 250-plus languages.
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Wikipedia in Financial Distress?
[UPEI - BUS442.0] Wikipedia is a free multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit, Wikimedia Foundation. The site has been established since 2001, and is the fastest growing and most popular general reference work available on the internet. It ranks number 7 on the top sites in Canada.
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Posted at 01:01 PM
March 31, 2008
Wikipedia Reaches 10 Million Total Articles
[Truemors] Online open content encyclopedia Wikipedia has hit an impressive milestone with 10 million total articles. The huge number takes into account all the articles available in 250-plus languages.
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Posted at 01:02 PM
Wikipedia in Financial Distress?
[UPEI - BUS442.0] Wikipedia is a free multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit, Wikimedia Foundation. The site has been established since 2001, and is the fastest growing and most popular general reference work available on the internet. It ranks number 7 on the top sites in Canada.
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Posted at 01:01 PM
March 28, 2008
Mediawiki tutorials coming soon”¦
[Boolean Dreams] Currently I am working with Mediawiki version 1.11 and lots of things have changed and new things emerged during last 1 year. So i feel that my book “Mediawiki administrator’s tutorial guide”
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Posted at 01:33 PM
Creating Templates in Mediawiki
[Free Mediawiki Skins] Have just found a fresh tutorial on how to create mediawiki templates. I believe it will be useful to you as its author reveals how to create mediawiki themes with two, five and no parameters, how to edit categories, templates and much .
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Posted at 01:32 PM
March 26, 2008
Importing MediaWiki pages to Apple Wiki pt2
[Chad(wik)'s Musings...] I finally narrowed down the tags necessary to reasonably import all of our MediaWiki pages. There are only two problems that we’ve decided to deal with:
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Posted at 01:33 PM
MediaWiki
[Gustavo Lacerda] I am annoyed enough at MediaWiki that I'm willing to pay a professional to fix this for me. Ideally, URLs would look like http://www.optimizelife.com/wiki/Main_Page SiteGround's installation scripts gave me: ...
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Posted at 01:32 PM
March 24, 2008
Wikipedia Should Go For-Profit, Give Profits Away
[Silicon Alley Insider] Its the same reason that lots of people (myself included) buy Newman's Own salad dressing over the competitors...its a good enough product and they get psychic income from the profits of the company going to charity.
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Posted at 01:01 PM
Wikimedia Pictures of the Year
[Funtasticus.com] The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee has announced the result of annual Picture of the Year competition, 2007. The winner is Broadway Tower in Cotswolds, England.
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Posted at 01:00 PM
March 21, 2008
Spam via Wikimedia lists (Fwd: is it you? cortney here)
[Wikipedia | Wikitech] I just received the email below as spam via wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org. However the email is clearly not sent via the mailing list as it is lacki.
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Posted at 01:32 PM
Stewards and Vogons
[millosh's blog] Such topic explains that “stewards are very important persons who shouldn’t be disturbed while working on much more important tasks”. Yes, I may work on some important task (privately, professionally or for Wikimedia), but I decided to be a steward not because of my vanity, but because those privileges are giving to me a possibility to help to Wikimedians.
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Posted at 01:31 PM
March 19, 2008
Pay Wikimedia if you need edits in Wikipedia
[Tech Bytes at Use Bytes] [Former Novell chief scientist Jeffrey Merkey says he donated $5000 to the Wikimedia Foundation in exchange for changes to his Wikipedia entry. Mr Merkey says Mr Wales agreed to “use his influence” to remove libelous remarks in the .
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Posted at 01:33 PM
wikimedia
[Desmerizing] I really like getting images from Wikimedia Commons. There are some really interesting photos there.
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Posted at 01:32 PM
March 17, 2008
Wikimedia Drama
[Wikibooks News] Jimbo, the founder of Wikimedia, has been the subject of a lot of gossip, and there appears to be a little bit of an ongoing quarrel between Jimbo and Danny Wool. I had no idea who Danny Wool even was before Google Reader suggested that I subscribe to his blog.
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Posted at 01:03 PM
Wikimedia Commons Uploads
[Driven By Boredom 3.0] I scanned a ton of polaroids for this book I am working on and uploaded a ton of my photos of bands and notable people to Wikimedia Commons which is a dump of thousands and thousands of media files that are usable under Creative Commons .
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Posted at 01:02 PM
March 14, 2008
Year: 2008 Week: 10 Number: 92
[en.Wikizine.org] [Wikimanina 2008] - A site risk assessment will be ordered for Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt announced Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner. Concern for the safety of Wikimanians in Alexandria has been a topic on Foundation-l and the assessment will look at various threats.
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Posted at 01:32 PM
TranslateWiki.net - BetaWiki to Translate WikiMedia
[killerstartups.com - all] This is an important project as a large percentage of the world doesn’t speak English and therefore do not have access to the same information as English speakers. BetaWiki allows translators to contribute their knowledge to the Wikimedia project.
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Posted at 01:30 PM
March 12, 2008
How the Barack Obama Campaign Uses Wikis to Organize Volunteers
[readwriteweb] The biggest prize for the Democrats today is Texas, which has 193 pledged delegates at stake, and the winner of today's contest, where polls have Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a dead heat, may be the one whose campaign has the best get out the vote effort. However, organizing a campaign across a state the size of Texas, both in terms of number of people and geographical size is a daunting task.
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Posted at 01:32 PM
Fortune Small Business: “Boosting teamwork with wikis”
[Grow Your Wiki] Last week I wrote about wiki use at Lee Rosen’s, North Carolina-based law firm. Here’s an article from Fortune Small Business on how he used Incentives & Recognition to spark collaboration on the wiki: .
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Posted at 01:31 PM
March 10, 2008
CNET Interview: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia
[Tom Merritt .com] Sue Gardner from the Wikimedia Foundation came on CNET Live today. I asked her about the controversy surrounding Jimmy Wales.
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Posted at 01:03 PM
Wikimedia Commons goes 3D
[All The Modern Things] I have subscribed to the RSS feed for the Featured Pictures category, so I frequently have the latest and greatest pictures from Wikimedia Commons weaved among the more mundane feeds on my feed reader. There are some really spectacular .
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Posted at 01:02 PM
March 07, 2008
MediaWiki 1.11.2 (Default branch)
[The UNIX Forums] MediaWiki is a Web-based collaborative editing environment. Originally built for the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia, it's geared to support a large number of users and pages.
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Posted at 01:46 PM
Sorting Tables in a MediaWiki
[Shaun McDonald's Blog] I've noticed that a number of tables in the Wikipedia are sortable. Further research found that it is implemented through client side javascript, when a table has the class="sortable".
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Posted at 01:45 PM
March 05, 2008
Re: trying to use CategoryPageView hook, but getting an 'Article ...
[Wikipedia | Mediawiki] Adding that include seems to have done the trick. I'm taking a look at your ecoli wiki example page.
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Posted at 01:32 PM
MediaWiki 1.11.2
[MAC OS X FREEWARE, APPLE] is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and other projects. It’s designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.
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