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funcheapSF.com {beta}[funcheapSF.com {beta}] Brion will talk about the wiki-based projects Wikimedia Foundation is involved with (including Wikipedia) and the online communities that develop around them. Brion’s presentation will kick off an informal, tool-based discussion on wikis and other community and collaboration platforms.

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TechSoup Blog blogshttp://feeds.techsoup.org/~r/Techsoup_Blog/~3/423049740/544 [TechSoup Blog blogs] SF Online Community Report MeetUp with Wikimedia: Brion will talk about the wiki-based projects Wikimedia Foundation is involved with (including Wikipedia) and the online communities that develop around them. Brion's presentation will kick off an informal, tool-based discussion on .

All Events - The Squid Listhttp://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=179935 [All Events - The Squid List] 10-22-2008 - Techsoup MeetUp, Wed. Oct. 22th: 22th, will feature guest speaker, Brion Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation. Brion will talk about the wiki””based projects Wikimedia Foundation is involved with (including Wikipedia) and the online communities that develop around them.

LinuxQuestions.org - Linux - Newshttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=676360 [LinuxQuestions.org - Linux - News] Wikipedia dumps Red Hat for Ubuntu Linux: The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, has finished the porting of its IT infrastructure - including most servers and desktops - to the Ubuntu variant of Linux.

Bitspyder.net RSS News Feeds::.http://bitspyder.net/newsdetails.php?id=10420&hit=1 [Bitspyder.net RSS News Feeds::.] Wikipedia dumps Red Hat for Ubuntu (Misc): Wikipedia dumps Red Hat for Ubuntu Unhappy with definition of 'management' By Timothy Prickett Morgan Posted in Operating Systems, 13th October 2008 19:34 GMT The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the Wikipedia online .

Industry Standard News and Predictions[Industry Standard News and Predictions] Wikipedia moves to one Linux vendor: The mixture of Red Hat operating systems was created as Wikipedia quickly grew, backed by a group of volunteer IT people who created it out of what they had available. In 18 months, the original site went from around 15 servers to 200, making maintenance and operations a whole different ballgame, Vibber said.

rebelzero.comhttp://www.rebelzero.com/ubuntu/wikipedia-goes-all-ubuntu/24 [rebelzero.com] Wikipedia Goes All Ubuntu: The move to Ubuntu, according to Gordon Haff, who is an analyst at Illuminata Inc. in Nashua, N.H., is more likely due to cost rather than any kind of brand loyalty.

informit: Safari Books Onlinehttp://safari.informit.com/9780596156299 [informit: Safari Books Online] MediaWiki, 1st Edition: 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.

autonomo.us[autonomo.us] autonomo.us podcast coming soon: The episode after that, we’ll have on Brion Vibber, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, to talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia is probably the most popular Free Network Service on the Web, and we’ll talk about .

Greg Laden's Bloghttp://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/10/technology_news_and_stuff_3.php [Greg Laden's Blog] Technology News and Stuff: The changeover began in 2006 as the growth of the site took off, said Brion Vibber, CTO of the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the nonprofit group that supports the online Wikipedia encyclopedia and other projects.

en.Wikizine.orghttp://en.wikizine.org/2008/09/year-2008-week-37-number-99.html [en.Wikizine.org] Year: 2008 Week: 37 Number: 99: [ID wp] - The Indonesian Wikipedia community officially met with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Indonesia who organized an event like Wikipedia Academy: a seminar and workshop titled "Contributing to Wikipedia" for the public and for organizations.

Tolik aka AcidumIraehttp://blog.tolik.org/2008/10/wikipedia-simplifies-it-infrastructure.html [Tolik aka AcidumIrae] Wikipedia simplifies IT infrastructure by moving to one Linux vendor: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9116787. In a few months, Wikipedia will finish a major transformation by moving from a combination of versions of Red Hat products to Ubuntu Linux ...

PediaPress Bloghttp://blog.pediapress.com/2008/07/pediapress-wikimania-2008-in-alexandria.html [PediaPress Blog] PediaPress @ Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria: The crowning finale of the conference was a great Wikimania open air party with music, dancing, Egyptian folklore shows, a huge buffet and “Wiki Shisha”.

Socialtext bloghttp://www.socialtext.com/blog/2008/06/a-universal-edit-button-for-th.html [Socialtext blog] A Universal Edit Button For The Web: You probably know that wikis, like Socialtext and Wikipedia, enable people to work together both more closely and at much larger scale than ever before. The UEB creates a common notification icon and a common way to "click to edit"

en.Wikizine.orghttp://en.wikizine.org/2008/04/year-2008-week-17-number-94_24.html [en.Wikizine.org] Year: 2008 Week: 17 Number: 94: Wikizine.org is published by [[meta:user:Walter]], and is not a publication of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikizine is a irregular publication as long as there is noteworthy news (and time) Content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Intelligent Designshttp://intelligentdesigns.net/blog/?p=91 [Intelligent Designs] Towards A True Wikimedia Commons: $wgForeignFileRepos = array( ”˜class’ => ”˜ForeignAPIRepo’, ”˜name’ => ’shared’, ”˜apibase’ => ”˜http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php’, ”˜fetchDescription’ => true, // Optional );. Your wiki installation will now have full access to ...

Guy's Bloghttp://blog.guyvdb.eu/2008/04/accepted.html [Guy's Blog] Accepted!: Last summer I worked on the improved HTML diffing library for Daisy CMS. Unfortunatly (and to my amazement), Daisy CMS chose not to participate this year.

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