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Phonegap + Wikipedia meetup (1/23) | tuna says
[tuna says] I went to the PhoneGap + Wikipedia event at Adobe immediately after the Wikipedia hackathon. I heard about it that Monday in the irc room O_O and thought initially that I couldn't go, because I usually have Spot rehearsal on .
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February 06, 2012
I Use Wikipedia More Than Makeup | TechCrunch
[TechCrunch] My favourite donation last year was five pounds from a little girl in England, who had persuaded her parents to let her donate her allowance. It’s people like you, joining with that girl, who make it possible for Wikipedia to continue providing free, easy access to unbiased information, for everyone around the world.
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February 03, 2012
Job o' the Day: Legal Intern at Wikimedia Foundation in San Fran ...
[The PSLawNet Blog] The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects, is looking fo legal interns for the Summer of 2012! The Office of the General Counsel runs a legal internship program to educate and train promising law students or in the areas of internet law and free knowledge organizations.
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Job o' the Day: Legal Intern at Wikimedia Foundation in San Fran ...
[The PSLawNet Blog] The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects, is looking fo legal interns for the Summer of 2012! The Office of the General Counsel runs a legal internship program to educate and train promising law students or in the areas of internet law and free knowledge organizations.
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Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all | FLOSSE Posse
[FLOSSE Posse] Wikimedia / Wikipedia naturally may not provide Internet connection for all, even if they would like to, but they may do design decisions that will increase broad accessibility. For instance, strict commitment to free content, free standards and free software is this kind of decision.
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Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all | FLOSSE Posse
[FLOSSE Posse] Wikimedia / Wikipedia naturally may not provide Internet connection for all, even if they would like to, but they may do design decisions that will increase broad accessibility. For instance, strict commitment to free content, free standards and free software is this kind of decision.
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October 12, 2011
Words and what not: #RTL support in #Wikimedia #Commons
[Words and what not] The screenshot below shows splendidly how #MediaWiki has improved its support for languages like Arabic and Hebrew. The sidebar is to the right, the labels used for the image are .
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Samson slaying Facebook Philistine (Zuck's Story) Wikimedia ...
[dogsmeat] Samson is seen here wielding the jawbone of an ass in order to slay one of the Philistines who have taunted him. This is the earliest of the great marble groups by Giovanni Bologna (called Giambologna), and the only substantial work by the artist to have left Italy.
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October 10, 2011
Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia - Gawkwire.com
[Gawkwire: Web Hosting and Internet News Resource] Among its previous grants to the Wikimedia Foundation, the Stanton Foundation provided $1.2 million in 2010 for the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, a program designed to improve the quality and quantity of information related to public policy topics in Wikipedia. The project resulted in 800 American students at universities such as Harvard and University of California Berkeley adding the equivalent of 5,800 printed pages of material to Wikipedia, and has now been expanded to include universities in Canada and India.
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Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia - Gawkwire.com
[Gawkwire: Web Hosting and Internet News Resource] Among its previous grants to the Wikimedia Foundation, the Stanton Foundation provided $1.2 million in 2010 for the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, a program designed to improve the quality and quantity of information related to public policy topics in Wikipedia. The project resulted in 800 American students at universities such as Harvard and University of California Berkeley adding the equivalent of 5,800 printed pages of material to Wikipedia, and has now been expanded to include universities in Canada and India.
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Wikimedia Foundation Announces Support For Italian Wikipedia Users
[Business Insider] This bill would hinder the work of projects like Wikipedia: open, volunteer-driven, and collaborative spaces dedicated to sharing high-quality knowledge, not to mention the ability for all users of the internet to engage in democratic, free speech opportunities.
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September 21, 2011
Product Manager - Mobile jobs at Wikimedia Foundation | San ...
[Affiliate Summit Jobs] Product Managers drive the conceptual development and implementation of software features from idea to release. We work with multiple groups throughout the product development cycle, including Wikipedia readers and editors, researchers, designers, and developers.
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Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config
[Technology news and reviews] {}An anonymous reader writes “The Wikimedia Foundation has released their Puppet configuration in a public git repository. They describe this as the first step in a project called Wikimedia Test/Dev Labs, letting users participate in the operations of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation sites.”
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Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config
[Technology news and reviews] {}An anonymous reader writes “The Wikimedia Foundation has released their Puppet configuration in a public git repository. They describe this as the first step in a project called Wikimedia Test/Dev Labs, letting users participate in the operations of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation sites.”
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September 16, 2011
NARAtions » Online catalog now links to Wikimedia resources
[NARAtions] Finally, unreservedly recommending these sites as a resource, which the catalog now does, should hopefully also help demonstrate to the Wikimedia community that the National Archives supports and appreciates work by Wikimedians which adds value to its collections, and encourage more of it.
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NARAtions » Online catalog now links to Wikimedia resources
[NARAtions] Finally, unreservedly recommending these sites as a resource, which the catalog now does, should hopefully also help demonstrate to the Wikimedia community that the National Archives supports and appreciates work by Wikimedians which adds value to its collections, and encourage more of it.
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Infothought: Wikimedia/Wikipedia Image Filter "referendum" results
[Infothought] We would never allow this point of view untrammeled and unreflexive presence on any Wikipedia site as a clear violation of NPOV – we should not allow it on Commons either.
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September 12, 2011
Draft for Wikimedia response to the EU Consultation on scientific ...
[Wikimedian in Residence] The European Commission have set up a questionnaire (PDF version) regarding their future Open Access and Open Data policy, and it has been suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation – perhaps represented by one or .
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Draft for Wikimedia response to the EU Consultation on scientific ...
[Wikimedian in Residence] The European Commission have set up a questionnaire (PDF version) regarding their future Open Access and Open Data policy, and it has been suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation – perhaps represented by one or .
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Oral Citations: A Wikimedia Project — Slaw
[Slaw] For more interesting projects from the Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia), see here. Oral cultures create knowledge, and some literate cultures produce many more publications than others.
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Oral Citations: A Wikimedia Project — Slaw
[Slaw] For more interesting projects from the Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia), see here. Oral cultures create knowledge, and some literate cultures produce many more publications than others.
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September 02, 2011
Wikimedia Tech Team (wikimediatech)'s status on Thursday, 01-Sep ...
[Identi.ca public timeline] Wikimedia Tech Team (wikimediatech)'s status on Thursday, 01-Sep-11 07:38:03 UTC. Wikimedia Tech Team wikimediatech.
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