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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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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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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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September 16, 2011
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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August 15, 2011
Wikipedia entry for the UNFPA Report | Forward 25 Careers CIC
[Forward 25 Careers CIC] By completing this project, we have also been able to impact on the google search optimisation for the report specifically for a country (for example, State of the World’s Midiwfery Tanzania brings the Wikipedia entries to number 5 ont he first page) and a search for ”˜Midwifery Tanzania’ brings the information from Wikipedia to Page 2 (see wikipedia). With this type of impact, we hope to assist with the wider dissemination of the report findings and improve general understanding of the issues facing midwifery as published through the report.
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Wikipedia entry for the UNFPA Report | Forward 25 Careers CIC
[Forward 25 Careers CIC] By completing this project, we have also been able to impact on the google search optimisation for the report specifically for a country (for example, State of the World’s Midiwfery Tanzania brings the Wikipedia entries to number 5 ont he first page) and a search for ”˜Midwifery Tanzania’ brings the information from Wikipedia to Page 2 (see wikipedia). With this type of impact, we hope to assist with the wider dissemination of the report findings and improve general understanding of the issues facing midwifery as published through the report.
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New Wikipedia – Stephen's Lighthouse
[Stephen's Lighthouse] One of the earliest was the Open Directory Project (ODP) which attenpted to use volunteers to build a directory of the web. This created the ealry finding tools that were employed by Yahoo and AOL and preceded the relevancy ranking search engines like Alta Vista and Google.
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New Wikipedia – Stephen's Lighthouse
[Stephen's Lighthouse] One of the earliest was the Open Directory Project (ODP) which attenpted to use volunteers to build a directory of the web. This created the ealry finding tools that were employed by Yahoo and AOL and preceded the relevancy ranking search engines like Alta Vista and Google.
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August 05, 2011
Wikis | Aitken Portfolio Project (ETEC565A)
[Aitken Portfolio Project (ETEC565A)] The use of wikis in the MET program really opened my eyes to their potential in education. The fantastic affordance of working with wikis, is not that they are necessarily alway correct (although Wikipedia usually is!
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July 18, 2011
R at Wikimedia | (R news & tutorials)
[R-bloggers] Last year Wikipedia rolled out a pilot program to use Wikipedia article creation as an assignment in the classroom. Students wrote articles on a topic area...
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July 11, 2011
Bachmann Blasts Wikipedia and Google for Reporting Too Much Fact ...
[The Washington Fancy] In a recent address to her Tea Party supporters, Bachmann stated that “our nation has been focusing far too much on fact, basically ignoring my fiery rhetoric and fierce looks. Sites like Google and Wikipedia have made it far too easy to fact-check and it simply is not fair.”
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Bachmann Blasts Wikipedia and Google for Reporting Too Much Fact ...
[The Washington Fancy] In a recent address to her Tea Party supporters, Bachmann stated that “our nation has been focusing far too much on fact, basically ignoring my fiery rhetoric and fierce looks. Sites like Google and Wikipedia have made it far too easy to fact-check and it simply is not fair.”
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Free Technology for Teachers: Wiki Summarizer Outlines Wikipedia
[Free Technology for Teachers] And as a point of clarification, like a lot of teachers I do allow my students to use Wikipedia as a starting point when they are researching a topic. A good Wikipedia article will include links to sources that I encourage my students to follow in the same manner that I used to use the bibliography of general reference books to find the books that that general reference book used.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Wiki Summarizer Outlines Wikipedia
[Free Technology for Teachers] And as a point of clarification, like a lot of teachers I do allow my students to use Wikipedia as a starting point when they are researching a topic. A good Wikipedia article will include links to sources that I encourage my students to follow in the same manner that I used to use the bibliography of general reference books to find the books that that general reference book used.
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July 06, 2011
pozycjonowanie wikipedia | Healthcare articles directory
[Healthcare articles directory] Information About Search Engine Optimization advertisements, pozycjonowanie wikipedia We will also optimise and rewrite where necessary, qualified sales leads and customer acquisitions than any other marketing channel. Scrutinizing the changing way to indexing pages of numerous search engines and directories every fortnight have kept our professional search engine optimization personnel With us you are sure to feel comfortable and can focus cazimo on other core business competencies.
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pozycjonowanie wikipedia | Healthcare articles directory
[Healthcare articles directory] Information About Search Engine Optimization advertisements, pozycjonowanie wikipedia We will also optimise and rewrite where necessary, qualified sales leads and customer acquisitions than any other marketing channel. Scrutinizing the changing way to indexing pages of numerous search engines and directories every fortnight have kept our professional search engine optimization personnel With us you are sure to feel comfortable and can focus cazimo on other core business competencies.
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Wikimedia Bolivia Organizes First Event for Local Wikipedia ...
[Global Voices] The Bolivian Wikimedia chapter gathered local Wikipedia editors and readers for the first time. The event included a workshop for current and future content editors.
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Wikimedia Bolivia Organizes First Event for Local Wikipedia ...
[Global Voices] The Bolivian Wikimedia chapter gathered local Wikipedia editors and readers for the first time. The event included a workshop for current and future content editors.
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June 27, 2011
History of the Digital Age » Wiki Entry #3: Wikipedia
[History of the Digital Age] For example, after Sarah Palin publicly spoke of the ride of Paul Revere including several inaccuracies, her supporters attempted to, “rewrite history, in this case on the Wikipedia page for Paul Revere”. Fortunately this attempt was thwarted by the sites editors, however because of the nature of the site, it is simply prone to error.
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June 13, 2011
In the News : “India ranks number six in donation to Wikipedia ...
[Dreaming Cherries] The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organisation dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and for providing full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.
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