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[TechCrunch] The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit that focuses on the development of free, multilingual content to wiki-based projects. The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, but has also helped develop Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wikiversity.

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[TechNews AM] Google Donates Million To Wikimedia Foundation... (TechCrunch ...: The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit that focuses on the development of free, multilingual content to wiki-based projects. The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, but has also helped develop Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wikiversity.

[Social Media Marketing News] Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation » Social Media ...: Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow.The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit that focuses on the development of free, multilingual content to wiki-based projects. The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, but has also helped develop Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wikiversity.Earlier this year, Wik...

[Wordchillies] Welcome to Wikimedia - Free Content Online: The Wikimedia Foundation relies heavily on the generous support offered by the users themselves. The Foundation is incorporated as a 501©(3) non-profit organization in the United States, where donations from US citizens are tax deductible.

[EDUCAUSE | Teaching and Learning] Innovating the 21st-Century University: It's Time! (EDUCAUSE ...: Taking this a step further, the Wikimedia Foundation organized Wikiversity (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page). Wikiversity participants set out what they want to learn, and the Wikiversity community collaborates to ...

[D' Technology Weblog] Google donated $2 Million to Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales says: The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, but has also helped develop Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wikiversity. Earlier this year, Wikimedia announced that it has raised $8 million .

[Random Stuff that Matters] Equitable Governance in Multilingual Wikipedia | Random Stuff that ...: This is a place for all the different projects to come together and discuss their experiences, learn from each other, and also discuss issues facing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects going forwards. The official presentations at these conferences are usually all held in English, although sometimes there are parallel tracks in one other language, reflecting the location the conference is hosted (for example, Spanish in Latin America, and Chinese in Taiwan).

[Sharing Nicely] Sharing Nicely » Blog Archive » P2PU - learning from open source (2): That is different from the Wikipedia (and Wikiversity) model, which takes its strength from openness. We feel that there are important differences between the social process of learning and the social process of collaboration around a common artefact which can easily be modularized (such as an encyclopedia).

[Curly Braces] Let's help others by sharing our knowledge « Curly Braces: Thomas Mandeville wrote in their paper “The knowing nations: A framework for public policy in a post-industrial knowledge economy” write that nations are about people, economics are about people and knowledge is a product of people.  According to Rooney knowledge grow, evolve, and expand through dissemination and use. Rosegger research pointed out that there is a misconception within many organisation that they should keep knowledge to themselves in order to remain competitive.

[Stanford Open Source Lab] Stanford Open Source Lab » Wikiversity, Wikipedia, and ...: In 2006, the Wikimedia Foundation , a non-profit organization which operates Wikipedia, launched the Wikiversity project, a free wiki-based platform for online learning and research. First experiments in Wikiversity show the emergence of new forms of self-organized learning and teaching.

[SpeakBindas] Do you know these INDIANS working at Wikipedia? | SpeakBindas: Kul’s job includes developing and executing the Wikimedia Foundation’s business development strategy. He identifies and develops deals with for-profit companies, particularly where those deals help Wikimedia make the projects’

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