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[Witty's Blog] Part 2: Making Wikipedia “GLAM-friendly” | Witty's Blog: Not really an essay, wikiproject, or policy page, it’s more of a place for people to seek advice written in terms that they can (hopefully) relate to.  So, whilst the advice written there isn’t unique or qualitatively different from the advice on other pages across Wikipedia, it brings together all of the information relevant to people from the GLAM sector, gives relevant examples, and provides a forum for asking questions to people who are interested in improving GLAM-WIKI relations.

[The Monkey Cage] The Monkey Cage: The end of Wikipedia . . . I can see it now!: I wasn’t trying to imply anything unusual about Sourcewatch’s use of the look and feel of Wikipedia. I was just pointing out that the Wikipedia format gives the Sourcewatch pages an air of authority, and I wonder if, as such formatting becomes more and more common, that it will ultimately tend to dilute Wikipedia’s perceived authority as an accurate and nonpartisan source.

[Green Marketing 2.0| SEO SEM Social Media Consulting - Lorna Li] Why Wikipedia Dominates SERPs : Green Marketing 2.0| SEO SEM ...: it costs a fortune to serve a top 10 site without ads, and being at the top of every Google search means a lot of stuff (biographies of living people in particular) need harsh constraints on their content because they have to be not-awful right now, meaning we don’t have time to take our time and get things just right.

[Managing Greatness] Should Wikipedia Give Charity or Take It | Managing Greatness: I’m thankful that we live in a society where neither I nor anybody else can force the Wikimedia Foundation to fulfill their potential of contributing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to worthwhile charities. And I repeat my opinion that the Wikimedia Foundation is doing a great deal of good.

[Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1] Wikipedia and Beyond - Reason Magazine: Hayekargued that market mechanisms serve "to share and synchronize localand personal knowledge, allowing society's members to achievediverse, complicated ends through a principle of spontaneousself-organization." (These are the words not of the Nobel Prizewinner himself but of Wikipedia's entry on him.) "Hayek's work onprice theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage theWikipedia project," Wales wrote on the blog of the Internet lawguru Lawrence Lessig. "One can't understand my ideas aboutWikipedia without understanding Hayek." Long before socialismcrumbled, Hayek saw the perils of centralization.

[AdHack Blog: People-Powered, DIY Advertising] AdHack Blog - How Wikimedia & Wikipedia Create Strategy as a Community: It's a great read because it reveals the struggles they've had, the insights they've gained and the thoughts behind the action on the site. The post focuses on an email from project manager Eugene Kim, “sharing his thoughts on how to think and act in a wiki way.” .

[Stevevirgin's Blog] Coca-Cola Enterprises reviews European Ad roster « Stevevirgin's Blog: Coca-Cola Enterprises, the UK’s largest bottler of Coke products, has kicked off an advertising review and shortlisted three agencies to pitch for the business.  The company, which manufactures and distributes more than 80 different Coca-Cola products, has invited WCRS, Publicis and the Coca-Cola GB roster agency VCCP to pitch for the account. The pitch, which is being handled by Agency Assessments, is expected to result in a decision by the end of the year.

[RootZoo Threads] Now Eddie Royal decides to start catching passes. - RootZoo Sports: In response to the Wikimedia Foundation's request, in November 2008, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) released a new version of GFDL designed specifically to allow Wikipedia to relicense its content to CC-BY-SA by August 1, 2009.

[jill/txt] jill/txt » wikipedia academy talk: What Wikipedia really need is people able to apply the intention, and think of what would be best for the encyclopaedia, not rule-pushers and straightliners. Many rule-pushers claim they want more rules in order to get quality, a limited set of rules can help, but the general rule is that there are always people enforcing them as they are written - to the letter, not being able to see and move in the grey areas in between.

[Witty's Blog] WIkipedia Journal | Witty's Blog: Some things that earn points are publishing a book, teaching courses and writing scholarly journal articles. One thing that certainly doesn’t earn points is helping to maintain the quality of the content on Wikipedia in the academic’s area of expertise - this is despite the fact that that is precisely where 90% of their students will turn to first to get some background information.

[Stevevirgin's Blog] Facebook and Google 'expect to offer' music « Stevevirgin's Blog: Music fans are about to get two new ways to find and sample songs on the Web, as Google and Facebook introduce new features on their services. Google, the search giant, plans to announce a music initiative at an event it will hold at the Capitol Records building in Hollywood next Wednesday, according to three people briefed on the details, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the service before it was announced.

[Witty's Blog] Storytelling | Witty's Blog: I also talked to Fenton Communication, and was also asked “What would you do if Wikipedia wasn’t there?” My response was: if Wikipedia is no more (as in, the content’s gone), then a large fraction of the internet must have been wiped out - in which case I’d probably have much bigger problems to worry about…

[Stevevirgin's Blog] BBC are planning to launch a global iPlayer « Stevevirgin's Blog: With around 50m registered BBC.com users, a major focus of a global iPlayer would certainly include the US. BBC executives believe that viewers in America would be prepared to pay up to $10 dollars for an episode of  a popular archive programme.

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