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[en.Wikizine.org] Year: 2009 Week: 23 Number: 107: [WMUK denied charity] - Wikimedia UK, the British chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, was recently denied charity status by HMRC (the organization that controls charity status in the UK).  The HMRC stating that production of an encyclopaedia is not a charitable purpose;

[No maps for these territories] the big switch: Recently, Wikimedia had a community-wide vote, and the Board of Directors subsequently passed a resolution, switching from the GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL (what the contents of Wikipedia and its sister projects, except for Wikinews & bits of Commons, are currently licensed under) to dual-licensing with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (or CC-BY-SA), which is also a free content license but is generally friendlier for reuse purposes.

[bobbiehensonts] Hebdomad 5: Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Mediawiki, Wiki-this, Wiki-that: These are Wikitionary - a lexicon altogether the languages of the existence; Wkinews - option intelligence service;

[Open Video Conference] Wikimedia Foundation and Open Video: Since January 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working with Kaltura to bring collaborative video editing to Wikipedia based on open standards. Wikimedia has also worked with Mozilla to support the development of Ogg Theora and related open video technologies, features that are now coming to fruition with the release of Firefox 3.5.

[Information blog] Portal:Opera/Wikimedia: ... http : //en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Opera&fulltext=Search Opera on Wikinews] ”’ |”’ ]”’ |”’[

[Troy McConaghy's Personal Blog] Sifting Through Wikimedia Fundraising Data: 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.

[Share a Logo] Wikimedia Foundation Vector Logo Download: With the foundation’s announcement, Wales also transferred ownership of all Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Nupedia domain names to Wikimedia along with the copyrights for all materials related to these projects that were created by Bomis employees or Wales himself. The computer equipment used to run all the Wikimedia projects was also donated by Wales to the foundation, which also acquired the domain names “wikimedia.org”

[Swivel Featured Graphs] Fund Raising for the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation is the organization behind Wikipedia and similar projects like Wikinews and Wikibooks. In January, they reached their fund raising goal of $6 million dollars.

[Rdh's Blog] Wikinews”¦ citizen journalism gone too far?: The most irritating feature of this news site is the high level of repetition.  The headline of the main story, “Congressional computers continue to be used to vandalise Wikipedia”, is repeated five times on the homepage.  This is pointless and can be very frustrating for the reader.

[Webby's World] Can a community grow too large?: I often blog about Wikipedia, but I have recently started to contribute to Wikinews. One thing that immediately struck me was that Wikinews’ community was much warmer than Wikipedia’s, but naturally it is much smaller.

[prinson's blog] Independent Media around the world: Independent media initiatives usually run their websites/portals. The public is increasingly using such websites/portals to tell their stories.

[RonanOKelly's Blog] Wikinews: The idea is much the same as Wikipedia in that users can write and edit their own news stories to create a collaborativly written news site. Users, under the watchful eye of site moderators, can write and edit news

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