Openpedia.org: The coming challenges for Wikimedia Commons

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[All The Modern Things] Here I mean the relationship between the Commons community and each community of each other Wikimedia wiki. If I ever see another project get so annoyed that they threaten to (or actually do) tell their users to stop uploading to Commons and just upload locally, then I will consider that the Commons community has massively failed.

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[MLB FanHouse] The Dugout's Wikipedia Report: the Chicago White Sox: Tonight's Dugout features the second installment of the Wikipedia Report, wherein the Chicago White Sox unearth their poorly-edited Wiki entries for craps and giggles. Monstrous spider-bicycles, jokes at the expenses of community .

[Jure Cuhalev] Wikimedia Commons for Fun and Profit - Brianna Laugher [Wikimedia ...: Wikipedia Takes Manhattan - people took photos of Manthattan, lots of high quality pictures of important buildings and places

[Nabble - English Wikipedia] No-indexing of project-space pages: and the intensive number of internal links means that when a Wikipedia page contains the name of a living individual, then unless the person is either extremely notable or happens to have a common name, that page will almost .

[lisnews - Librarian And Information Science News] A Librarian at the HOPE (Hackers on the Planet Earth) Conference: Chief among these are copyright (especially now with all the digitization occurring in libraries), The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), censorship, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) and the ever popular Wikipedia. There are more parallels between library science and hackers than you would ever think possible.

[Nabble - English Wikipedia] Re: Dangerous factionalism (Was: Re: SlimVirgin and CheckUser leaks): ... no longer assigned to the realm of inter-user conflict in the role of admins. Just my thought. Alec. WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l.

[International Issue Forum] Dissecting the New World Order Conspiracy: The video, which speaks in ominous tones designed to make us feel fearful and shocked, discusses a proposed North American Union. The Wikipedia entry on the North American Union states that there is no intention for an North American Union, according to the leaders of the three countries, although a lone American University Professor has advocated for a North American “Community”.

[Moving at the Speed of Creativity] First experiences with web-based digital story editing: JumpCut!: To learn more about Jim Thorpe, who truly was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, read the current WikiPedia article for him. I used paragraphs from that article in my digital story, and indicated these were read at the conclusion of the story.

[Bonnie's Sustainable Blog] Koinonia Farm - sustaining itself and the people who live there: According to current entries in the Wikipedia, the farm radically empowered women, but the experiment withered away after a fire in 1846. At their peak in the era just before the Civil War,The Shakers boasted 19 “intentional .

[Mitchell's Blog] Concentric Circles of Community: But rather than make up adjectives I’m going to borrow the term “Community of Practice.” Wikipedia describes this as “social learning that occurs and shared sociocultural practices that emerge and evolve when people who have common .

[7/24 Holiday and Travel and Another Things Blog] Wikipedia with Approvals = Boring Wikipedia?: I also know that it’s not 100% accurate (no encyclopedia is, but Wikipedia is probably a bit worse with this regard). And I know about the issues of gaming Wikipedia, be it for fun or profit.

[Hazelnut Tech Talk] The Art of Community | A Community Collaboration by Danese Cooper ...: From Wikipedia to the newest form of this method, the “Art of Community”, a book for O’Reilly by Portland’s Dawn Foster and San Fransisco’s Open Source Advocate Danese Cooper (who is currently packing for OSCON).

[supersite Blog - All Comments] re: First hints of Microsoft’s 'fight back' ads appear: >>Around 330 BC, Aristotle provided observational evidence for the spherical Earth,[13] noting that travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon. He argued that this was only possible if their horizon was at an angle to northerners' horizon and thus the Earth's surface could not be flat.[14] He also noted that the border of the shadow of Earth on the Moon during the partial phase of a lunar eclipse is always circular, no matter how high the Moon is over the horizon.

[rindawriter] MY HOME TOWN: I was born in Bangkok, Thailand, in the mid-1950’s. When I was two weeks old, my parents moved back to a house in Chiang Kham, which is about as far away in Thailand from Bangkok as you can get, way, way up in the north, about forty miles from the Laotian border, in the Golden Triangle. Thailand is my country because it is my birthplace. America is my country, too, because my parents were American. I was thus born with dual Thai and American citizenship. So I am Thai-American but in a different way than most people think.