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LOOOOOOOOONG Post About Field Trip

[Amanda] (Pictures of Devil's Postpile and a broken off basalt column: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Devils_postpile_NM.jpg and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Devils_Postpile_column_on_side-750px.jpg) ...

I just Beat The GMAT! :: 750 (Q50/V41)

[Beat The GMAT Forum] Author: wikimedia Subject: 750 (Q50/V41) Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:39 am (GMT -7) A couple of months back, the company I worked in faced a hostile takeover bid from a competitor. It was good because I finally decided to appear for the ...

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September 29, 2008

LOOOOOOOOONG Post About Field Trip

Posted at 01:03 PM

I just Beat The GMAT! :: 750 (Q50/V41)

Posted at 01:02 PM

September 26, 2008

WHITEPAPER: Using Sharepoint Blogs and Wikis in Business

[Kurt Shintaku's Blog] Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 now offers both wikis and blogs, so business and technical decision-makers can understand what the technologies offer and the technical and business considerations for their adoption. The wide-ranging business and technical impact of wikis and blogs means that the information about uses and management is pertinent to many staff members within a company, because of the enormous variety of business applications of blogs and wikis.

Posted at 01:32 PM

Video: A. Garrett Lisi on Using Wikis to Support Open Source Science

[O'Reilly News] From the perspective of someone not intimately familiar with the installation and setup procedures of a MySQL database or an Apache HTTPd server, the choice of a consolidated TiddlyWiki instance seems an obvious choice. There are fewer moving parts, and I would imagine that Theoretical Physics is best "performed" with the least number of technical distractions.

Posted at 01:31 PM

September 24, 2008

Extension:AdSense - MediaWiki

[MediaWiki on SWiK] Insecure AdSense plugin for MediaWiki.

Posted at 01:32 PM

MediaWiki special pages (eg special:allpages)

[MediaWiki on SWiK] Info on what all the mediawiki specialpages do. For example, list all pages, categories, protected pages, images, users etc.

Posted at 01:32 PM

September 22, 2008

Thing 8: Wiki, Wiki, Whack!

[swc's 23 (things, that is...)] A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and likely the most well known of these knowledge-sharing .

Posted at 01:03 PM

Moodle "Wikis" Training Class

[Gustavus Weekly Announcements and Events] In Moodle, Wikis can be a powerful tool for collaborative work. The entire class can edit a document together, creating a class product, or each student can have their own Wiki and work on it with you and their classmates.

Posted at 01:01 PM

September 19, 2008

What Is It With Dems & Wiki's?

[The Last Best Place] What's going on with the Democrat party and Wikipedia lately? It almost seems as if they've all received the same memo...change any wiki entry that portrays info that makes your guy look bad.

Posted at 01:33 PM

Comment on Ways to use a wiki by Wikis in eLearning « Hebrew ...

[Comments for Moving at the Speed of Creativity] He writes a about a brainstorming session there where wiki usage was discussed at: Ways to use a wiki and a list of links are at: Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes [...]

Posted at 01:32 PM

September 17, 2008

The Hidden Value of Wikis

[Enterprise Collaboration Blog | brainkeeper] As you continue to use the wiki, you might see new Workspaces being created for each department, with their own status updates, work product, and other bits of information. What can you learn from this?

Posted at 01:32 PM

September 15, 2008

Who’s That Behind Wikipedia?

[Carne Asada is not a Crime] On several occasions, going back to December, Gloria Molina’s page has had any section regarding controversy (tacos or murals) erased by somebody at the same address. Furthermore, this same IP address has changed passages to the articles of fellow supervisors Mike Antonovich, Don Knabe, and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors article.

Posted at 01:06 PM

Why Wikipedia works

[Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG] Today, Pollard is one of three bloggers for The Spectator, with the majority of his posts pouring praise on the far right Israeli Likud, in common with fellow blogger, Melanie Phillips. These bloggers have cultivated a band of hard right Israeli symphathisers whose comments contain a level of vitriol against Muslims that can be offensive.

Posted at 01:02 PM

September 12, 2008

Wikimedia Commons 3D Crystal Clear Icons

[projecttres] Wikimedia commons giving away 300 free 3D icons in Crystal Clear type which are then been divided actions, applications, devices, file system, KDM and MIME-Types to suit for your all kind of icons. As because the icons are not compiled .

Posted at 01:32 PM

Jimmy Wales Discusses Wikimedia Monetization Plans

[ondemand Beat] Hopefully WikiMedia will put some of the additional funding into MediaWiki. Although MediaWiki is still a great wiki tool it is starting to fall behind tools like MindTouch and PBWiki in the case of WYSIWYG and Social Media tools

Posted at 01:31 PM

September 10, 2008

Wikipedia Founder Goes Green

[Observer.com (The New York Observer)] Wales: No, this is a growing area. What we're doing is actually complementary to blogs in the sense that what blogs do is update you on a day-to-day basis.

Posted at 01:33 PM

Mac 101: Search Wikipedia from your desktop

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Wikipedia is a special dictionary file - as it is the only one that goes online to fetch information. I tried to modify it - with some success, but I was unable to get it to truly work.

Posted at 01:32 PM

September 08, 2008

WikiSym 2008 Opens; New WikiFest Speaker Announcement

[Grow Your Wiki] We have seven distinguished speakers who will show how organizations like IBM, Boeing, University of Helsinki, //Seibert/Media, and University of Michigan have introduced and grown enterprise wiki use for collaboration, ...

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WGS Wiki Editors Needed

[We Got Served » We Got Served - The Windows Home Server Site] The hardest and most time consuming part is putting thought to word. Formatting and layout are the easy part, and can be handled by myself and others. And there really isn’t a steep learning curve for wiki editing. Once you get the hang of it, you’re an expert! Also, experience with Windows Home Server or Windows Media Center will absolutely help. You can’t properly write about what you don’t know.

Posted at 01:01 PM

September 05, 2008

[via upload.wikimedia.org] The Uighurs of Xinjiang, the most...

[/Ambivalence] The Uighurs of Xinjiang, the most western “autonomous” region of China speak a turkic language, and are very closely linked to other turkic language speakers.

Posted at 01:32 PM

Image:Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

[FFFFOUND! / EVERYONE] upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg/773px-Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg

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September 03, 2008

A FLOSS Manual: How to contribute to Wikimedia Commons

[All The Modern Things] Web-appropriate proportions just don’t suit normal portrait-orientation books. Someone should do a PhD on figuring out a good algorithm to convert them automatically.

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Translation in Wikimedia Projects

[Hacklog: Blogamundo] Image:Translation in Wikimedia Projects - Arria.pdf - Wikimedia Commons. (Click the document image to see the pdf.) Lots of thought-provoking statistics in there.

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Openpedia.org > September 29, 2008

LOOOOOOOOONG Post About Field Trip

I just Beat The GMAT! :: 750 (Q50/V41)

September 29, 2008

LOOOOOOOOONG Post About Field Trip

I just Beat The GMAT! :: 750 (Q50/V41)

September 26, 2008

WHITEPAPER: Using Sharepoint Blogs and Wikis in Business

Video: A. Garrett Lisi on Using Wikis to Support Open Source Science

September 24, 2008

Extension:AdSense - MediaWiki

MediaWiki special pages (eg special:allpages)

September 22, 2008

Thing 8: Wiki, Wiki, Whack!

Moodle "Wikis" Training Class

September 19, 2008

What Is It With Dems & Wiki's?

Comment on Ways to use a wiki by Wikis in eLearning « Hebrew ...

September 17, 2008

The Hidden Value of Wikis

September 15, 2008

Who’s That Behind Wikipedia?

Why Wikipedia works

September 12, 2008

Wikimedia Commons 3D Crystal Clear Icons

Jimmy Wales Discusses Wikimedia Monetization Plans

September 10, 2008

Wikipedia Founder Goes Green

Mac 101: Search Wikipedia from your desktop

September 08, 2008

WikiSym 2008 Opens; New WikiFest Speaker Announcement

WGS Wiki Editors Needed

September 05, 2008

[via upload.wikimedia.org] The Uighurs of Xinjiang, the most...

Image:Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

September 03, 2008

A FLOSS Manual: How to contribute to Wikimedia Commons

Translation in Wikimedia Projects

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