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Phonegap + Wikipedia meetup (1/23) | tuna says

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:06:14 +0000

[tuna says] I went to the PhoneGap + Wikipedia event at Adobe immediately after the Wikipedia hackathon. I heard about it that Monday in the irc room O_O and thought initially that I couldn't go, because I usually have Spot rehearsal on .

I Use Wikipedia More Than Makeup | TechCrunch

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:04:52 +0000

[TechCrunch] My favourite donation last year was five pounds from a little girl in England, who had persuaded her parents to let her donate her allowance. It’s people like you, joining with that girl, who make it possible for Wikipedia to continue providing free, easy access to unbiased information, for everyone around the world.

Job o' the Day: Legal Intern at Wikimedia Foundation in San Fran ...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:35:47 +0000

[The PSLawNet Blog] The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects, is looking fo legal interns for the Summer of 2012! The Office of the General Counsel runs a legal internship program to educate and train promising law students or in the areas of internet law and free knowledge organizations.

Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all | FLOSSE Posse

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:34:01 +0000

[FLOSSE Posse] Wikimedia / Wikipedia naturally may not provide Internet connection for all, even if they would like to, but they may do design decisions that will increase broad accessibility. For instance, strict commitment to free content, free standards and free software is this kind of decision.

Words and what not: #RTL support in #Wikimedia #Commons

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:17 +0000

[Words and what not] The screenshot below shows splendidly how #MediaWiki has improved its support for languages like Arabic and Hebrew. The sidebar is to the right, the labels used for the image are .

Samson slaying Facebook Philistine (Zuck's Story) Wikimedia ...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:34:03 +0000

[dogsmeat] Samson is seen here wielding the jawbone of an ass in order to slay one of the Philistines who have taunted him. This is the earliest of the great marble groups by Giovanni Bologna (called Giambologna), and the only substantial work by the artist to have left Italy.

Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia - Gawkwire.com

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:05:23 +0000

[Gawkwire: Web Hosting and Internet News Resource] Among its previous grants to the Wikimedia Foundation, the Stanton Foundation provided $1.2 million in 2010 for the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, a program designed to improve the quality and quantity of information related to public policy topics in Wikipedia. The project resulted in 800 American students at universities such as Harvard and University of California Berkeley adding the equivalent of 5,800 printed pages of material to Wikipedia, and has now been expanded to include universities in Canada and India.

Wikimedia Foundation Announces Support For Italian Wikipedia Users

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:04:27 +0000

[Business Insider] This bill would hinder the work of projects like Wikipedia: open, volunteer-driven, and collaborative spaces dedicated to sharing high-quality knowledge, not to mention the ability for all users of the internet to engage in democratic, free speech opportunities.

Professors explore wikis | The Ithacan

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:35:28 +0000

[The Ithacan] The project, called “Untangling the Web of Historical Thinking: What the Structures of Student-Produced Wikis Reveal,” was spearheaded by Ali Erkan, associate professor of computer science and environmental studies and sciences, and Michael Smith, associate professor of history.

Wikis in the Classroom: Three Ways to Increase Student ...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:33:57 +0000

[Online Learning Update] Wikis are simply web pages that can be edited by their users. Instead of only carrying content from the administrator, they harness the power of crowdsourcing to create a powerful communal resource.

Speeding Up Mediawiki

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:35:11 +0000

[MediaWiki Forums] But I noticed today that my mediawiki version still says it is using 5.2.17. I'm not sure if that might be where the issue is coming from?

MediaWiki - O'Reilly Media

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:34:00 +0000

[O'Reilly Media, Inc. New Titles] MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing and organizing knowledge.

Workplace Wikis for employee collaboration. | Teale Shapcott

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:05:18 +0000

[Tigera] IntelliPedia is a series of three private wikis used for collaborative data sharing by the United States Intelligence Community. The wikis were implemented in an effort to change workplace practices of information sharing in the U.S. Intelligence community following accusations of the community failing to proactively identify warning signs prior to the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis: Apple's iBookstore opens in 26 new countries

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:04:01 +0000

[Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis] Bringing new meaning to the phrase "wiki farm" (A blog about small-scale farming, whole-scale crafting, and as many geeky collaborative Web tools, tips, and ideas as I can fit in.) .

Ted Ernst on Open Space

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:35:08 +0000

[The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration] Expect to see a blank agenda wall to be filled up with topics convened by those present. Every topic people care about enough to convene a session on will get discussed/worked on by the others interested in that topic.