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The World of Communications: To the Cloud - Wikis
[The World of Communications] With the freeze on school budgets, Web 2.0 tools are opening up a whole new world of opportunities for educators and students alike. Most of these tools are free or relatively inexpensive to use.
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Introducing Epik Marketplace for Wikis « Epik Blog
[Epik Blog] of the acquired site is a non-event. This is what Epik-powered marketplaces will be working to solve. In other words, once a site is purchased, the acquired SITE is added to your account, including historical data about the site and control of all of the content.
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February 28, 2011
The World of Communications: To the Cloud - Wikis
[The World of Communications] With the freeze on school budgets, Web 2.0 tools are opening up a whole new world of opportunities for educators and students alike. Most of these tools are free or relatively inexpensive to use.
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Posted at 01:06 PM
Introducing Epik Marketplace for Wikis « Epik Blog
[Epik Blog] of the acquired site is a non-event. This is what Epik-powered marketplaces will be working to solve. In other words, once a site is purchased, the acquired SITE is added to your account, including historical data about the site and control of all of the content.
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February 25, 2011
Arabizing Wikipedia | Crossroads Arabia
[Crossroads Arabia] Wales said he would not hold the Arabic contributors for the lack of Arabic content in the Wikipedia but largely attributed to the difficulties involved with a number of international languages that includes Arabic. “The Arabic content on Wikipedia is very small as compared with the number of Arabic-speaking states and the population in the region,” said Wales referring to approximately 143,000 article on Arabic version of Wikipedia.
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PSFK » Artist Infiltrates Wikipedia
[PSFK] The Brooklyn-based artist took a two-week road trip up the Pacific Coast Highway from late December 2010 to early January 2011, starting at the Mexican border and ending up in Oregon. Along the way he photographed himself staring out at scenic bays and standing on desolate stretches of empty beach and uploaded these photos to the corresponding Wikipedia page for each geographical location.
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February 23, 2011
Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis: Troubleshooting EPUB ebook files
[Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis] I get emails all the time asking me if I can help figure out what's not working in someone's web site or ebook. Generally, I don't have the time to futz with other people's files, mostly because I'm futzing with my own.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
Social Software Basics: Blogs and Wikis | TechTicker
[TechTicker] With the bulk of the LMS roll out behind me (thank heavens for that), I’m hoping to devote much of my attention in the coming year to promoting other ways of learning online. However from observation there is still a fair amount of confusion –
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February 21, 2011
Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate Collaborative Web Site
[Lifehacker] However, if you log into your MediaWiki installation and click on preferences, and then the Skins tab, you can dress up your wiki in various other looks. With a little elbow grease, you can also create your own custom skin and assign it as the default to the wiki.
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Posted at 01:06 PM
Improving Mediawiki performance - Frederik's Blog
[Frederik's Blog] Create a directory where Mediawiki can store the localisation cache (make sure it is writable by your web server). By preference store it on a tmpfs (at least if you are sure it will be big enough to store the cache), and configure it in LocalSettings.php:
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Posted at 01:05 PM
February 18, 2011
Wikimedia Commons Pictures of the Year - Creative Commons
[Creative Commons » Commons News] The awesome Wikimedia Commons community just finished selecting its 2007 picture of the year: Newton2 / CC BY We neglected to mention last years' winner: United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang / public domain All .
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Posted at 01:35 PM
Wikipedia Enters the Sun King's Court « IT News
[zikkir] “This partnership with the Palace of Versailles confirms that something has changed between cultural institutions worldwide and Wikimedia: The World of Culture is starting to understand that criticizing by saying “Wikipedia is not complete” is not as constructive as working with Wikipedia to make it better.
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February 16, 2011
Wikimedia Foundation board approves license migration - Creative ...
[Creative Commons » Commons News] In any case we are deeply gratified that such an overwhelming majority (88% of those who voted with an opinion) approved this change worked on over several years by the Free Software Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, and Creative Commons, are proud to stand with such trusted organizations, and will live up to that trust!
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Posted at 01:35 PM
Get 'free' media with Wikimedia Commons
[Lifehacker: Media Player] Wikimedia Commons uses MediaWiki, which allows users to overwrite media, categorise media and edit media's descriptions. By simply typing in Category:London in the search box, you receive hundreds of images related to London - all of which you can use in your own website or blog, legally!
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February 14, 2011
Longhaus: Too Much “Soap Boxing” in Enterprise Wikis « Elevator View
[Future Changes] Thirty-five percent (35%) of CIOs are uncertain as to the return on investment (ROI) of wiki adoption. Longhaus analysis indicates that the current incarnation of the enterprise wiki has over-addressed support for capturing employee soap boxing while ignoring much needed cohesiveness between business process and data sources that support true knowledge capture.
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Posted at 01:04 PM
Lombardi Software: Collaborative information development using ...
[Future Changes] Lisa’s talk also looks at topics like Getting DITA to talk to the wiki, creating a wiki table of contents from a DITA map, and some of the limitations and considerations to think about when starting a project like this.
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February 11, 2011
Wikipedia Cofounder's Wiki Bailout Plan
[Gawker] Jimmy Wales, the scandal-prone cofounder of Wikipedia, thinks Barack Obama's first priority should be creating government websites anyone can edit. Translation: A bailout for makers of wikis.
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Posted at 01:36 PM
Order Guduchi Online No Prescription » Blog Archive » Wiki ...
[Bit Stampede] If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into the wiki and editing the articles directly, or by emailing your notes, sample code, or feedback to mdnwiki@mozilla.org.
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Posted at 01:33 PM
February 09, 2011
CCi and Wikimedia Germany in closer collaboration, shared office ...
[Creative Commons » Commons News] Leaving our office in Berlin-Mitte, we'll be moving to Berlin-Schöneberg to share workspace with Wikimedia Germany. Our move builds upon existing collaborations with local Wikimedia .
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Posted at 01:38 PM
Wikimedia Announces New General Counsel ”” Slaw
[Slaw] There, he directed legal affairs in more than 15 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, encompassing litigation, copyright and trademarks, privacy, ethics, product and site content review, policy and regulatory compliance, new market advice, contracts, governance and site security.
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Posted at 01:37 PM
February 07, 2011
Wikipedia + CC BY-SA = Free Culture Win! - Creative Commons
[Creative Commons » Commons News] If people wanted the material they’d written for Wikipedia in the public domain, they’d have said so when they uploaded it. The whole point of using GFDL is that it makes it possible but difficult to lift material, and that’s always been the understanding under which people have written for Wikipedia.
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Posted at 01:04 PM
Make: Online » Beautiful element photography on Wikimedia Commons
[Make: Online] MAKE is loaded with exciting DIY projects and how-tos that help you make the most of the technology in your life. This is a magazine, website, and community that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own .
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Posted at 01:03 PM
February 04, 2011
How to Patch MediaWiki to latest version | LinuxReaders
[LinuxReaders] For further upgrade you can patch MediaWiki to latest version. This article will help you through patching your existing.
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Posted at 01:34 PM
Quick Recipe for MediaWiki with AD logins | Dawning.ca
[Dawning.ca] /** * Check if a username+password pair is a valid login. * The name will be normalized to MediaWiki's requirements, so * you might need to munge it (for instance, for lowercase initial * letters). * * @param string $username * @param string $password * @return bool * @access public */ function authenticate( $username, $password ) { global $pwauth_bin_path;
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