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[OpenCulture] OpenCulture » Blog Archive » Seeking museums to love Wikipedia: At the most fundamental level, we share a common aim of bringing public content to the public (even given the recent challenging disagreement about the ethics and economics of this between Wikipedia and the National Portrait Gallery). As in museums, the majority of Wikipedians are only incidentally technologists - the majority are photographers, creators, and copyright-geeks, sharing a common belief in the power of decentralised collective action.

[Political Wrinkles] Of Orwell and Ads - Political Wrinkles: But Germany’s courts have come up with a different balance between the right to privacy and the public’s right to know, Mr. Abrams said, and “once you’re in the business of suppressing speech, the quest for more speech to suppress is endless.”

[The Legal Infrastructure of Business] The Legal Infrastructure of Business: Wikipedia involved in First ...: Section 230 of the Act “provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an interactive computer service who publish information provided by others.” This certainly applies to Wikimedia Foundation regarding the issue of accountability for how these Germans’ names were initially posted on Wikipedia. I agree with Anne that it seems the Germans have no legal legs to stand on in this case - but we’ll have to wait and see what happens.

[SoLinkable.com / Promoted Links] SoLinkable.com - Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers: A DMCA takedown notice sent by Nielsen Media Research to the Wikimedia Foundation has resulted in the deletion of over 300 pages on the English Wikipedia. The pages were 'templates' and categories that listed television stations within various geographical markets in the United States.

[MarkMontoya.com] MarkMontoya.com » Blog Archive » Wikipedia: Losing editors ...: “The “Wikipedia Forever” fundraising ad (and associated variation on that theme[1]) appear to be widely rejected by the editing community, and the Foundation’s claim that readers find it appealing does not appear to be borne out by friends/family of editors.

[HarvardBusiness.org] Can Wikipedia Compete in China? - Conversation Starter ...: Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation has a mission, freely available information for everyone. Baidu and Hudong is not into that race, but we are, and as we are not dependent on the quarterly reports to the stock-market, then we just keep on doing what we have been doing since we started - that is expanding our free encyclopedia.

[Sinosplice: Life] The Wikimedia Commons Stroke Order Project | Sinosplice: Life: This project aims to create a complete set of high quality and free illustrations to clearly show the stroke order of East Asian characters (hanzi, kanji, kana, hantu, and hanja). The project was started as there was none like it in terms of quality and it seems that it is the only one working on all three schools of Han character stroke order;

[en.Wikizine.org] Year: 2009 Week: 41-42 Number: 120 - The English language edition ...: [Bookshelf Project: Manager Announced] - Frank Schulenburg (Head of Public Outreach) announced that Wikimedia's Bookshelf Project will be led by Marlita Kahn.  The Bookshelf project aims to develop a slate of basic educational materials -- print, online and video -- to attract new authors and editors to Wikipedia.

[meanwhile...] meanwhile”¦ » Blog Archive » (UK National Portrait Gallery vs ...: Assuming a certain level of technological ignorance on behalf of the NPG it is fairly safe to assume that they thought they where only making available 500 * 400 pixel images and allowed users of the website to see 500 * 400 px sections of the paintings in high resolution. Before Coetzee proved them otherwise the NPG probably never realized that this meant that the entire high-res files needed to be on a web-server somewhere2.

[http://blog.realgsolutions.com] How do i upload audios,videos and pictures to new and existing ...: If you want a file to be accessible from any Wikimedia project, such as the English Wikipedia, or Wikipedias in other languages, I would suggest uploading it to the Commons instead. Do this by visiting the Commons .

[Ub News] Collaborative efforts that drive Wikipedia are vaporizing? Answer ...: Number of news story based on this recent research by Spanish researcher Felipe Ortega also argues that Wikipedia is losing volunteers and soon the site will face imminent demise. In this regard today Wikipedia published a blog which informs everything in detail about its Wikipedia current status and future prospects.

[Education News|Education Blog|Education Video|BOOKCOST.NET] Wikipedia Solicits Donations from Users: Don't Want Ads? Donate ...: Your online concession can be done regulating the credit label around PayPal or we can mail the check to Wikimedia Foundation, PO Box 919227, Orlando, FL 32891-9927. Stock donations to the Wikimedia Foundation can be eliminated by transferring batch from your brokerage to theirs by on condition that your attorney with the name Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

[Healthymemory's Blog] Wikis « Healthymemory's Blog: Its first editor was Larry Sanger. When you arrive at the home page you are confronted with a vast choice of languages that requires a drop down menu.

[Creative Commons » Commons News] Wikipedia + CC BY-SA = Free Culture Win! - Creative Commons: If people wanted the material they’d written for Wikipedia in the public domain, they’d have said so when they uploaded it. The whole point of using GFDL is that it makes it possible but difficult to lift material, and that’s always been the understanding under which people have written for Wikipedia.

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