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[iRevolution] HURIDOCS09: From Wikipedia to Ushahidi « iRevolution: This explains why I’m eager to learn more from Florence regarding her experience with Wikipedia. She mentioned that one new way they track online vandalism of Wikipedia entries is by detecting “sudden changes”

[Silicon Alley Insider: iPhone] Is Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales an Embezzler?: A short time later, in an e-mail exchange with her fellow board members, Devouard reported that she had convinced the Associated Press that "the money story was a no story." Yet she proceeded to indicate the opposite, upbraiding Wales for having asked the foundation to pay the steakhouse tab. "I find (it) tiring to see how you are constantly trying to rewrite the past," she wrote to Wales in the message, which was obtained by the AP.

[Latest news about the Lift conference] Wikipedia @ Lift09 | Lift conference, inspiring and connecting ...: Two years ago, Florence Devouard, the former chair of the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit entity that owns the very popular open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia) and now member of the Advisory Board of Wikimedia .

[Valleywag Comments] The Sum Of All Human Knowledge: Wikipedia board vote eliminates ...: The nonprofit parent of Wikipedia the Wikimedia Foundation has dumped Florence Devouard as its chair and replaced her with board.

[bit-tech.net News Feed] bit-tech.net | Wikipedia bans all of Qatar after encyclovandalism: Wikipedia would normally ban the offending editors IP but that isn’t possible with Qatar, as all web traffic is routed through one single IP. Wikipedia wanted to make clear that its position wasn’t to offend any particular nation, with chair of the Wikimedia Foundation, Florence Devouard telling the BBC:

[BecomeNatural.com] Wikipedia, will it disappear? :: BecomeNatural.com: Following those statements, Sandy Ordonez, spokesman for the site, said Devouard´s commentary was exaggerated and that the closure of Wikipedia would not happen in the short term. However, he acknowledged that the company should be more “creative”

[Valleywag: Top] The Sum Of All Human Knowledge: Who's really running Wikipedia?: On paper, Wales still outranks Devouard. Could he have told her that "EC" stands for "emeritus chair," while secretly keeping legal authority over Wikipedia to himself?

[.net > Discover] What’s the deal with Wikipedia? - .net magazine: I know they do yearly reports and I could sift through them all and probably the numbers would add up just fine, but all I ever hear is the shock and horror that Wikipedia could close any minute now, so we better give them more money. I don't think this is true, I think the physical aspects of the hosting and bandwidth are covered (or could be done for a lot less), and even if every member of staff and all of the trustees were fired today, the community behind Wikiepdia would keep things running just as well, if not better.

[R. Stuart Geiger] Do you support Wikipedia? News from the Trenches of the Science ...: this work is a critical examination of the way in which the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia has been implicitly cast as a continuation of the Science Wars.  Instead of debating about the efficacy and authority of science, academics are now debating the efficacy and authority of Wikipedia. Using Martin Heidegger’s work on ontology and technology, I argue that this particular academic mindset is a way of being-in-the-world that works to either affirm or negate the integration of Wikipedia into its particular projects - namely, the production of academic knowledge.  However, I show that asking whether Wikipedia is a reliable academic source enframes Wikipedia into an objectless standing-reserve of potential citations, foreclosing many other possibilities for its use.  Instead of following Steven Colbert and countless academics by asking what Wikipedia has done to reality, I ask: what have we done to Wikipedia in the name of reality?

[X Style Blog Spot] What’s the deal with Wikipedia? | X Style Blog Spot: But last year Wikimedia Foundation’s chairperson Florence Devouard revealed that it’s never more than three months away from closure. Although she later played down her statement, it highlights how funding is an ongoing issue for the world’s encyclopedia, which faces perpetual uncertainty thanks to a model that relies on donation drives rather than selling advertising.

[Yahoo! Search Blog] Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » What is the capital of Guatemala?: cool if we showed country summaries from Wikipedia with a link to the full entry?”. That day, we e-mailed Florence Devouard from the href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home">Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees that we knew ...

[en.Wikizine.org] The English language edition of Wikizine: [Negative press] - The Indepentent has published a very negative article about Wikipedia and Wikimedia. Jay Walsh, Head of Communications of the WMF responded by means of the comment function of the article and stated "A number of the facts in the story are blatantly false, and further details are sloppily reported or incorrect."

[Lunch over IP] Lunch over IP: The Wikimedia cash crunch story: what Devouard ...: as you've put in your post here, it said "Wikipedia could shut down", and there's a world of difference. If you also took the time to read it you'll note that I said "I smell a begging bluff on this one"...meaning that I didn't believe that Wikipedia would shut down because lets face it, the chances of this happening, no matter what she did or didn't say, are pretty close to zero.

[en.Wikizine.org] The English language edition of Wikizine: [Knight Anthere] - the French National Order of Merit has been awarded by President Sarkozy of France to [[w:fr:User:Anthere]] (Florence Devouard).  She received the rank of knight as "chair of an international foundation"

[Lunch over IP] Lunch over IP: LIFT07: Wikimedia's Florence Devouard and the ...: On Wikipedia we do the opposite, we open the gates, we say it's your place - and when people feel that Wikipedia is "their home", they start protecting it. She speculates that over time this may percolate into society, that people "may start to leave their door open".

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