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[CNET News - Digital Media] Wikimedia receives $500000 from Hewlett Foundation | Digital Media ...: "We've just begun the planning that will help us identify how to maximize our impact around the world," Sue Gardner, the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said in the statement. "This support will help us to execute our priorities for the current year, and enable us to plan for the future."

[Webhostingscoop.net] Find Wikipedia (MediaWiki) a Pain to Edit? | Webhostingscoop.net: We don't have MediaWiki yet, but we're planning to add it (and a number of other applications) to our suite in the coming months. Keep an eye out--and hopefully by the time we add it, MediaWiki will have come out with a newer version of the software to make editing easier for everyone." />

[Akahele] Akahele | Wikimedia Foundation subletting space?: (Author’s note: The Wikimedia Foundation has clarified that they are not swimming in surplus floor space.  In fact, the entire staff plans to move soon to new space that reportedly offers more than three times the flooring of 39 Stillman Street’s WMF-apportioned space.  The “sub-lease” plans are still in place, but the contract is for the entirety of the soon-to-be-former WMF footprint.  I also understand that the rented office space at Wikia, Inc.

[MyWikiBiz - Recent changes [en]] Ethical accountability - MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy: It is also interesting that there are over 43000 links to Amazon's retail site from the supposedly non-profit Wikipedia site. The popular movie site IMDB.com is owned by Amazon, and one can buy Amazon products directly from IMDB pages. There are nearly 174000 links ... The Wikimedia Foundation announced in January 2009 that it would begin paying rent to Wikia, Inc. on a monthly basis, using tax-advantaged funds from the Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund. Then, in August 2009, ...

[The Coffee Desk] Wikipedia's Beta: Pretty Yet Petty » The Coffee Desk: Guess what was one of the first things on which the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) expended that grant money? Office space for the new code developers that would be hired!

[ReadWriteWeb] Wikipedia Gets Grant to Help First-Time Authors: The Wikimedia Foundation will use this grant to create a team of developers and user interface designers that will work on reducing barriers of entry for first-time authors. Specifically, the team will look at hiding the more complex elements of the user interface from users who don't need to deal with them.

[The Social] Wikipedia gets $890000 for the Luddites | The Social - CNET News: It'll fund the hire of three new software developers in the foundation's San Francisco office. Then, per a press release, the team will "commission research to identify the most common barriers to entry for first-time writers, and then work to systematically reduce or eliminate them...hiding complex elements of the user interface from people who don't need them."

[TECH.BLORGE.com] Wikipedia set to get easier to edit thanks to Stanton donation ...: This issue is now set to be addressed, with The Wikimedia Foundation announcing a project to make the editing process much easier, removing the more complex elements of the user interface. To help the not-for-profit organization achieve this aim, the Stanton Foundation is donating $890,000.

[Kioskea.net] Wikipedia gets grant to lure new writers: US-based Stanton Foundation is giving the non-profit foundation the money to make the website's writing and editing tools more inviting to people new to making entries in the communally-crafted compendium.

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] Strange Conspiracy in a Land of Freedom, Honor and Integrity ...: These committee findings led to the issuance of the Wilson Memo, which mandated””in accord with Nuremberg Code protocols””that only volunteers be used for experimental operations conducted in the U.S. armed forces. In response to the Inspector General’s investigation, the Wilson Memo was declassified in August 1975.

[Troy McConaghy's Personal Blog] Troy McConaghy - Troy's Blog - Sifting Through Wikimedia ...: The Wikimedia Foundation had already raised about $2 million from the Sloan Foundation, the Stanton Foundation, Arcadia, and an anonymous donor prior to November 5. The rest came from small(ish) donations from oodles of donors—that’s the data in the recent data dump.

[IPOWERWEB Web Hosting: The Blog] IPOWERWEB Web Hosting: The Blog: Find Wikipedia (MediaWiki) a Pain ...: The Wikimedia Foundation was been awarded a $890000 grant from the Stanton Foundation to make collaboration easier for those of us who have some great knowledge to share, but may not quite understand how to use the funky MediaWiki .

[iTWire - Latest Headlines] iTWire - LCA2009: Getting Wikipedia up to speed: Wikipedia is a grand concept that has yet to reach its full potential. Run by a non-profit organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation, it has had its bad moments but has overcome many of its earlier problems in the move towards being a reliable source of information, a free encyclopedia online.

[Lessig Blog] And again: the point: DEFINE: "Good Soul Corruption" (Lessig Blog): now receives monthly rental checks from the Wikimedia Foundation (from monies provided by the Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund), so that the non-profit entity may share office space with the for-profit entity. The Foundation claims they reviewed bids by about 10 potential landlords, but in the end, they came down to two bids -- a low one, and a higher one from Wikia, Inc.

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] The brief version of what I have found about the causes of the ...: On March 16, 2006, Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) introduced the Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 (S.2455),[146][147] under which the President would be given certain additional limited statutory authority to conduct electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists in the United States subject to enhanced Congressional oversight. Also on March 16, 2006, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) introduced The National Security Surveillance Act of 2006 (S.2453),[148][149] which would amend FISA to grant retroactive amnesty[150] for warrantless surveillance conducted under presidential authority and provide FISA court (FISC) jurisdiction to review, authorize, and oversight  electronic surveillance programs.  On May 24, 2006, Senator Specter and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Improvement and Enhancement Act of 2006 (S.3001) asserting FISA as the exclusive means to conduct foreign intelligence surveillance.

[Media Matters for America - County Fair] The press can't even get the "You Lie!" story right | Media ...: Whatever...all i know as it was totally unprofessional, and uncalled for...this man has no respect for the congress, nor for his own party. He made himself and his party look like a bunch of hoods...and rasist people.

[Sim Dynasty Message Board] Sim Dynasty Message Board - Hello, this is my team.: Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton began agitating for women's rights after the repression they faced at abolitionists events, organizing the first such meeting at Seneca Falls NY in 1848. I am concerned, as you see, with the incremental progress that characterizes this nation's back-and-forth history.

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