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[Blogon Considering Web 2.0] So many wikis, so little time but wiki-wiki does mean quick and ...: Wiki-wiki means quick and if you are seeking a quickie solution for collaborating on content, Wikis might just be the key to the quickest and easiest way to get the work done.  A wiki is a unique website that allows YOU, your students, your colleagues, or anyone with a computer and access to the internet, to become the Editor in Chief.  With the busy world that we live in wiki’s provide the ideal solution for many hands to make light work, with the ability to collaborate on any work topic you can imagine.  Anyone can create a wiki and once most wikis are started most anyone can add to it, fix it, erase it or share it, meaning that wiki’s are living, growing and changing websites. 

[Beet.TV] Beet.TV: Get Ready for Video on Wikipedia: Al Jazeera Has Started ...: We had decided many years ago already to only use open standards on Wikipedia, so we've always had, well not always, but for four years now round-about, had video on Wikipedia on a Ogg Theora format, which is an open source video format that's been around for awhile and that has really matured in the past couple of years, thanks in significant part to support from the Mozilla Foundation as well, and we are now working on technologies that will make it easier for people to do things with those videos; both to get videos from, for example, the Internet Alcove, we've been working with them, pooling an interface from their repository (they have thousands of public domain videos that could be used for Wikipedia articles), but also to take a video, to crop it, to edit it, to take different assets and mix them into a single video.

[Robin Good's Latest News] Collaborative Content: How To Make Wiki Content Truly Democratic ...: The recent Wikimania conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts attracted a global spectrum of participants and speakers focusing on collaboratively edited Wiki databases in general and the projects sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation in .

[Ad Huikeshoven Blog] It is all about people, about people who care II: Eligible voters decide which specific partnering organization could be seen as of vital interest to the Wikimedia movement or the Wikimedia Foundation, or just plainly the community of eligible voters. My current paid daytime job is not within the broader movement in the widest sense.

[FORA.tv - Program Feed] FORA.tv - Yochai Benkler and Jimmy Wales Discuss Cooperation: Yochai Benkler - Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School, he was Joseph M.

[IslamOnline.net > Health & Science] Wikipedia: Beyond the Free Encyclopedia - IslamOnline.net - Health ...: In terms of personal biases, the languages (probably such as Arabic) with a limited number of editors are more likely to be affected by bias, than a much larger project with numerous editors (such as the English Wikipedia). The key secrets to prevent personal bias is a large editing community, as diverse as possible, and general respect and acceptance of our goals and rules, in particular what we call the neutrality of viewpoint.

[Slashgeo: Industry] Slashgeo | OpenStreetMap State of The Map 2009 News: The agreement between GeoBase and OpenStreetMap marks the contribution of government data from the second largest country on the planet, the largest country in the western hemisphere and the country with the longest coastline on the planet. The GeoBase data set is rich and diverse including the National Road Network, National Hydro Network (surface water), Geopolitical Boundaries, Elevation data and Satellite imagery.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - Digital Revolution Blog: Liberty, wikipedia and a voice for all: Is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for founding Wikipedia.org, as well as other wiki-related organizations, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit...

[Open Knowledge Foundation Blog] Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open dictionary ...: [...] Open dictionary databases: an overview Open dictionaries are excellent examples of open knowledge projects. Whether monolingual or bilingual, and whether dealing with definitions, etymology, translation or pronounciation –

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - Digital Revolution Blog: What was my goal when I came up ...: So rather than demolishing what Wikipedia originally stood for, Jimmy's explanation is trying to adjust what we perceive that original mandate to be. It was to build a platform that allowed anyone to get involved in the debate, and a platform on a par with academia rather than at war with it.

[Cathy Davidson's blog] Wikipedia is Learning: Talking with Jimmy Wales | HASTAC: I met Jimmy once before, when a MacArthur conference and his plane both ended up putting us at the same hotel in Newark, New Jersey, and Jimmy, danah boyd, and I ended up having a drink, and then riding the airport bus together. That was a few years ago, some colleges were going on record as "banning Wikipedia" in their classrooms, and I wrote what turned out to be an influential, tide-turning editorial saying that, to me, Wikipedia was the definition of the new forms of participatory learning enabled by new global digital technologies. 

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