Openpedia.org > February 26, 2010
Google Gives $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation
[Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing] The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other collaborative sites such Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikimedia Commons.
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February 08, 2010
4J's Group - THE CONTENT POOL: The Week in Wikis - Week #5
[4J's Group - THE CONTENT POOL] NASA + Wikipedia = OpenLuna - an open source, wiki-based attempt to design a leaner, meaner, public driven moon mission. As always the full list of all Wiki Week links can be found at http://delicious.com/wikiweek/ ...
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January 29, 2010
Britain Loves Wikipedia « Wikimedia UK Blog
[Wikimedia UK Blog] Chair of Wikimedia UK, Michael Peel, said, “Museum collections hold a vast range of objects that have great cultural significance and enhance our knowledge of our origins but are not as well covered on Wikipedia as they deserve to be. With ‘Britain Loves Wikipedia’, we hope to increase the number of photographs on Wikipedia for the world to share, enjoy and learn from.”
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January 20, 2010
Ejly: Wikipedia and Reputation Management
[Ejly] To keep yourself motivated, check your analytic tool afterward--when done properly, you'll likely see some high-quality, lengthy visits showing up on your sites from Wikipedia. And that can be motivation enough to stay connected to the Wikipedia process, and can provide a significant ROI for the time spent on the article.
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Posted at 01:36 PM
Ejly: Wikipedia and Reputation Management
[Ejly] To keep yourself motivated, check your analytic tool afterward--when done properly, you'll likely see some high-quality, lengthy visits showing up on your sites from Wikipedia. And that can be motivation enough to stay connected to the Wikipedia process, and can provide a significant ROI for the time spent on the article.
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Wikipedia: Rapper targeted by 'ungratefuls' | Fresh Loaf
[Fresh Loaf] Atlanta Creative Loafing Weekly Newspaper, shelter from the mainstream for news, event listings, dining, movies and music.
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January 08, 2010
Wikipedia Annual Fundraiser Goal Supported by Record Number of ...
[Your Story] SAN FRANCISCO, January 4, 2010 ”” In its most successful fundraiser ever, the Wikimedia Foundation today announced that it has met and exceeded its goal of $7.5 million USD to support Wikipedia for the 2009-10 fiscal year. The Foundation was able to raise just over $8 million USD, $2 million more than the previous year, due to the support of a record number of donors.
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January 04, 2010
Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia « Wikimedia UK ...
[Wikimedia UK Blog] The final stages of the salvage of the sixteenth-century carrack Mary Rose on 11 October 1982. Image released onto Wikipedia by the Mary Rose Trust, and restored by a Wikimedia volunteer.
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Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia « Wikimedia UK ...
[Wikimedia UK Blog] The final stages of the salvage of the sixteenth-century carrack Mary Rose on 11 October 1982. Image released onto Wikipedia by the Mary Rose Trust, and restored by a Wikimedia volunteer.
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The Wikipedia List of Unusual Articles « ResourceShelf
[ResourceShelf] These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something you would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic.
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Posted at 01:02 PM
The Wikipedia List of Unusual Articles « ResourceShelf
[ResourceShelf] These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something you would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic.
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December 18, 2009
Wikipedia Companion-Mini Wiki Browser « Google Chrome Extensions
[Google Chrome Extensions] No delay, no unneeded loading from Wikipedia with our cache!- Key focus: type the moment you open it!- Access to your recent wiki lookups across any tabs and pages!- Back/forward button; Like a mini wiki browser!- Ability to open Wikipedia lookup in a new tab!- Multi-lingual Wikipedia support.
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December 09, 2009
Actor Ron Livingston Sues Wikipedia; He Should Use The Site To ...
[Techdirt] As a side note, I'm not necessarily defending wikipedia and neither am I agreeing with what they're doing. I'm just defending their right to promote a social movement that disagrees with you and ignore the ones that agree with you and I also support your right to put up whatever wiki you want and to do the same.
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Posted at 01:35 PM
Actor Ron Livingston Sues Wikipedia; He Should Use The Site To ...
[Techdirt] As a side note, I'm not necessarily defending wikipedia and neither am I agreeing with what they're doing. I'm just defending their right to promote a social movement that disagrees with you and ignore the ones that agree with you and I also support your right to put up whatever wiki you want and to do the same.
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"Is It Me, or is Wikipedia Starting to Get Pushy For Donations ...
[CollegeHumor: Recent Articles] by Jason Michaels at University of Illinois
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"Is It Me, or is Wikipedia Starting to Get Pushy For Donations ...
[CollegeHumor: Recent Articles] by Jason Michaels at University of Illinois
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Posted at 01:33 PM
November 25, 2009
Huffington Post Readers Select Wikimedia Foundation Executive ...
[ResourceShelf] Drawing on the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission of bringing free knowledge to everybody, executive director Gardner is overseeing a strategic plan to broaden access to Wikipedia’s vast storehouse of information. Her battle plan: making Wikipedia easier to use and available to more people worldwide.
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Wikimedia Begins Its Annual Fundraising Drive « ResourceShelf
[ResourceShelf] Wikipedia has become more than just a website,” said Jimmy Wales, founder of the free online encyclopedia, which is now one of the five most popular websites in the
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November 09, 2009
Wikimedia Foundation Launches The Bookshelf Project « ResourceShelf
[ResourceShelf] Now we already know that many Wikipedia readers have never thought about editing the encyclopedia - even though there’s lots of information available about how to do so. Our goal is to reach out to those editors more actively - both to make them feel welcome and give them a great set of starting tools.
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November 02, 2009
Part 2: Making Wikipedia “GLAM-friendly” | Witty's Blog
[Witty's Blog] [...] before I get to that (in part 2), here is blogpost part 1. listing just some of the things coming out of the GLAM sector that [...]
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Posted at 01:03 PM
Putting the "Open" in Wikimedia's Open Community Strategy ...
[HarvardBusiness.org] Regarding ads: The internet is full of it, Wikipedia is the one large website without ads and I think its worth to keep it ad-free. One could argue that ad money could support new projects, but without ads we have grown Wikipedia to the 5th most used website in the world and I believe that success is partly due to that we don't have ads.
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October 23, 2009
Wikimedia receives $500000 from Hewlett Foundation - The H Open ...
[The H Open Source] Wikimedia also received $890,000 from the Stanton foundation at the end of last year. The money will be used to improve access to Wikipedia.
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