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[Witty's Blog] Part 1: Making Wikipedia “GLAM-friendly” | Witty's Blog: Another response to the GLAM-WIK recommendations that will be published soon (and I’m very excited to have heard this) is that the National Library of Australia has convened a high-level committee to make a formal response. As an organisation that already integrates Wikipedia into many of their services (more than anyone else worldwide as far as I know) they are in a fantastic position to really engage with these recommendations.

[en.Wikizine.org] The English language edition of Wikizine: [Simple Wikipedia] - this little known Wikipedia works since 2004 on a encyclopedia that is using fewer words and easier grammar then the English Wikipedia. The small community has managed to get again at the 54,000 articles mark, after falling down 2000 articles due to a quality cleanup.

[Witty's Blog] GLAM-WIKI recommendations | Witty's Blog: This blog post is actually my thoughts I'm pulling together for my presentation to be given on the third day at Wikimania in Buenos Aires next week which will be entitled: “Wikimedia and museums - why we need each other what we can do about it“. This will be doubly so when we have the Open Street Map integration and I hold great hopes for some cool augmented reality applications on smartphones to increase the link between Wikipedia and “place”.

[Latest Activity on Museum 3.0] Liam Wyatt's Page - Museum 3.0: The event that you have (hopefully) all heard about, "Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Wikimedia: finding the common ground" is coming along apace!

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Quick Impressions of the D.C. 9/12 Protest - Hit & Run : Reason ...: I love tacos." The most popular were variationson "Don't tread on me," "You lie," complaints about Obama's"socialism," warnings about the 2010 elections, references to thedeficit or big spending, critiques of Obamacare, and (especially)cracks about various czars (including not a few that equated czarswith Soviet Communism). Godwin's Corollary was satisfied onmultiple occasions, including "Hitler gave great speeches, too,""the Nazis did national health care first," and someone comparingObama's 2009 with Hitler's 1939 (alas, we didn't get to ask himwhether America was about to invade Poland).

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