Web 2.0 #6 Wikis
[Pjasinow's Weblog] Using Wikihow, I could find information on how afford to visit again, by reading “Madrid on a Budget” and then add some information on saving money from my own traveling experiences.
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Wikis in Moodle and the read-write matrix
[Verso] While the Moodle wiki has quite a few limitations, the ability to control access and the ways that learners can collaborate can be very useful. But my advice is to plan the teaching and learning strategies carefully before setting up a wiki in Moodle - once the wiki is in use it’s not always easy to change the type!
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Posted at 01:32 PM
April 30, 2008
Web 2.0 #6 Wikis
[Pjasinow's Weblog] Using Wikihow, I could find information on how afford to visit again, by reading “Madrid on a Budget” and then add some information on saving money from my own traveling experiences.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
Wikis in Moodle and the read-write matrix
[Verso] While the Moodle wiki has quite a few limitations, the ability to control access and the ways that learners can collaborate can be very useful. But my advice is to plan the teaching and learning strategies carefully before setting up a wiki in Moodle - once the wiki is in use it’s not always easy to change the type!
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Posted at 01:32 PM
April 28, 2008
BACKING AND RESTORING MEDIAWIKI IN UBUNTU
[LINUX CLUES] We are going to learn how to back up and restore our Mediawiki installed on a Ubuntu system. To acomplish that we will execute some wiki maintenance commands.
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Posted at 01:04 PM
MediaWiki API
[Simon Willison's Links] This is great, I've been looking for some way to access my contributions to Wikipedia (and other MediaWiki wikis) and since MediaWiki doesn't provide feeds for the user contrib pages, I thought I was out of luck. But this is even better.
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Posted at 01:03 PM
April 25, 2008
Wikimedia Foundation wants research about its projects to be OA
[Open Access News] Research efforts supported by the Wikimedia Foundation generally should meet the following conditions, which we consider best practice:
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Posted at 01:39 PM
Wikimedia Gets a Real, Grown Up Treasurer
[Wired: Epicenter] "A question for Stuart if he's reading: Florence has described your professional background .but how much experience do you have with the Wikimedia projects, if any?
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Posted at 01:34 PM
April 23, 2008
Bertelsmann to publish print edition of German Wikipedia
[heise online - Grand unified feed] At nearly a thousand printed pages, it's less than one per cent of Wikipedia's German on-line content. Brockhaus, a German contemporary of the Encyclopedia Britannica, has yet to announce when its print encyclopedia will go live .
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camera’s scheme to infiltrate wikipedia
[Niqnaq] that Israel-related articles on Wikipedia are “free of bias and error, and include necessary facts and context.” However, subsequent communications indicate that the group wanted to keep the effort secret from the media, the public, and Wikipedia administrators:
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Posted at 01:33 PM
April 21, 2008
Wikis Week 5
[wiseowl] The Book lovers Wiki - I found this really good and easy to naviagate. The reviews being in genre makes it a lot easier to find what you are looking for.
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Posted at 01:02 PM
April 18, 2008
SVN: [33538] trunk/extensions/ConfirmAccount/SpecialConfirmAccount.php
[Wikipedia | Mediawiki-CVS] Revision: 33538 Author: aaron Date: 2008-04-18 02:09:57 +0000 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) Log Message: ----------- Fix comment Modified Paths: --------
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Posted at 01:32 PM
SVN: [33539] trunk/phase3/languages/messages
[Wikipedia | Mediawiki-CVS] Revision: 33539 Author: shinjiman Date: 2008-04-18 02:40:41 +0000 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) Log Message: ----------- Localisation updates Cantonese, C.
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Posted at 01:31 PM
April 16, 2008
Using Wikis for Project Management
[KM Space] The key to using a wiki for project management is making sure everyone on the project team has an RSS feedreader. (Even better get an enterprise RSS feedreader and push out a subscription.) The wiki compresses the updating of information and the distribution of the updated information into one step.
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Posted at 01:35 PM
Medical wikis
[Latest Internet resources added to Intute: Social Sciences] This article, which maintains a growing list of medical wikis, is hosted on a blog run by the librarian David Rothman. These wikis are user-editable websites in the style of wikipedia, and include an AIDS wiki, Demystifying Depression, Medical Images, and the Neurodegeneration Research Wiki.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
April 14, 2008
Seamless Integration of Wikis into the Learning Environment: Part ...
[Rose Colored Glasses] wiki history link Wikis are inherently built on trust, since all participants can edit all content. That means that it is possible for anyone in the group to edit or even delete other group member's contributions.
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Posted at 01:04 PM
Wikis and Blogs in Education
[Teachr 2.0] of wikis and blogs. So much professional development is about how to put an image in or how to embed content but doesn't address the "show me the educational value" side of the equation.
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Posted at 01:02 PM
April 11, 2008
NRI Vinod Khosla, wife give Wikimedia big boost
[cybermedia India Online Limited - IT News] Indian expatriate philanthropists Vinod Khosla and his wife Neeru Khosla have made a $500000 donation to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
KDE and Wikimedia Start Collaboration
[LWN.net] KDE eV and Wikimedia Deutschland have opened a shared office in Frankfurt, Germany. As two organizations that share similar goals and organizational challenges, they hope that working out of the same space will strengthen and expand .
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Posted at 01:32 PM
April 09, 2008
Wikimedia Commons
[The Struggling Writer] For the most part, I’ve been getting them from Wikimedia Commons, which is a great place for photographs in the public domain. Check out their Featured Pictures or simply search for something you want to see.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
Broadway tower - Wikimedia Commons (Photo)
[Digg / upcoming] The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2007 competition is now over and the winner has been selected. In the final 919 Wikimedians voted, of which 84 voted for the winner, Broadway Tower in Cotswolds, England.
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Posted at 01:32 PM
April 07, 2008
OER week 5 - Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation
[Keith's Blog] Part of the joy of Wikipedia is that it feels to be part of our common property, something we can contribute to, something we all have a stake in. As the quality of Wikipedia and the other projects improves this increases the benefits to all users.
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Posted at 01:05 PM
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2007
[The Presurfer] Wikimedia Commons is a media repository that is created and maintained not by paid-for artists, but by volunteers. It provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts that are useful for any Wikimedia project.
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Posted at 01:03 PM
April 04, 2008
20 MediaWiki Extensions You Should Be Using
[Digg / Technology / upcoming] One of MediaWiki strengths is how easy it is to extend with its plug-in architecture. The following is a list of 20 extensions that should make your life easier and save you a fair bit of time.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
Finally, FCKeditor as a pure extension for MediaWiki!
[millosh's blog] […] FCKEditor: WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki IMPORTANT: As of April 2008, this page is OUTDATED. FCKeditor is now a regular extension and there is no need for using a patch.
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