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[ReadWriteWeb] Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons: According to the Ford Foundation website, the funds are granted to select organizations that support emerging leaders, research and dialog, and life-changing or life-improving innovations. Typically, fewer than 3 percent of grant applicants are selected for funding, and purely scientific projects are not typically considered for these grants.

[ResourceShelf] ResourceShelf » Blog Archive » Ford Foundation Awards $300K Grant ...: Wikimedia Commons, the multimedia repository shared by Wikipedia and all other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, has been a wonderful success story, having grown to more than 4.5 million educational, freely usable media .

[TechNews AM] Wikimedia Foundation Gets 0K for Wikimedia Commons ...: The Ford Foundation has just granted $300000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia's repository for free, sharable multimedia files. The grant will fund a study of barriers to entry for users and .

[Art Knowledge News] Wikimedia Foundation receives Ford Foundation Grant to grow ...: San Francisco, CA - The Wikimedia Foundation, the non- profit organization which operates Wikipedia, has received a $300,000  Ford Foundation grant to make it easier for people around the world to 

[Raw art Weblog] Wikimedia Foundation receives Ford Foundation Grant to grow ...: The Wikimedia Foundation, the non- profit organization which operates Wikipedia, has received a $300,000  Ford Foundation grant to make it easier for people around the world to  participate in Wikimedia Commons, the Internet’s largest repository of  high quality, freely reusable educational illustrations, photographs,  maps, sound, and video files. Available in 85 languages, Wikimedia Commons is a global community  dedicated to sharing media.

[TechKive] Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons: The Ford Foundation has just granted $300000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons , Wikipedia ’s repository for free, sharable multimedia files. Visit link: Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons.

[POP Daily Delivery] Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons: According to the Ford Foundation website, the funds are granted to select organizations that support emerging leaders, research and dialog, and life-changing or life-improving innovations. Typically, fewer than 3 percent of grant applicants are selected for funding, and purely scientific projects are not typically considered for these grants.

[MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing] Industry Buzz & Snippets: 07/02/09 - MarketingVOX: The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation. Funds will go toward growing Wikimedia Commons, a free educational media repository.

[Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Wikipedia to open up to video: The Wikimedia Foundation plans to launch an editable, video encyclopedia to complement its text-based online encyclopedia. Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has grown at an astounding rate, with about 65 million visits per month and thousands of volunteer contributors writing, adding to and editing thousands of articles every day.

[Global Hi-Tech News] Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons | Global Hi ...: The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons , Wikipedia ’s repository for free, sharable multimedia files. The grant will fund a study of barriers to entry for users and contributors new to Wikimedia Commons.

[Spin Valley Post] Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons: According to the Ford Foundation website, the funds are granted to select organizations that support emerging leaders, research and dialog, and life-changing or life-improving innovations. Typically, fewer than 3 percent of grant applicants are selected for funding, and purely scientific projects are not typically considered for these grants.

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Wikipedia video - coming soon: For starters, the video repository will be the Internet Archive, which already holds nearly 200,000 videos, and Wikimedia Commons, a database of more than four million media files, including videos, says the story, adding the third source, Metavid, is a repository of Congressional speeches and hearings, complete with closed-captioning text with a handy tagging system so users can search for words or phrases and find the right section of a speech to import.

[en.Wikizine.org] The English language edition of Wikizine: [Wikisource] - An info/law blog published an interesting post about using Wikisource as an alternative open access repository for legal studies.  It turns out the author is actually an admin on Wikisource who works on expanding the texts too!

[OStatic blogs] Wikimedia Foundation's Mobile Site Caters to Android, iPhone: According to the Wikimedia Foundation announcement: "The new gateway is written entirely in Ruby (using the Merb framework) and the Git repository can be found here. We are looking for open source help with supporting other phone types .

[WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India] Wikipedia Bringing Videos Into Its Fold - Now Edit Videos Like ...: The vision of this project is to enable the Wikipedia community to further enhance and enrich Wikipedia articles with rich-media content. The technology behind this project is a form of video-wiki software that is integrated into the Mediawiki platform as an extension, allowing users to add collaborative video players that enable all users to add and edit images, sounds, diagrams, animations and movies in the same manner as they do today with text.

[Global Hi-Tech News] Recovery.gov's Data Transparency Called "Significant Failure" by ...: The Recovery.gov website is beautifully designed, but when the data being collected from federal recovery fund recipients is made available this October it will be hard to call it transparent if presentation of that data is done entirely by the hand of the government program being scrutinized. Raw data, freely available to the public, would allow for open-ended analysis by the community at large.

[TechKive] TechKive » Blog Archive » Michael Jackson's Death Spurs Ugly Fake ...: July 2, 2009. The Ford Foundation has just granted $300000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons , Wikipedia 's repository for free, sharable multimedia files.

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