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Wikipedia project 'losing contributors in record numbers'
Dublin :: Ireland | 1 day ago
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Wikipedia is losing tens of thousands of volunteer editors a month, according to a study that suggests the pioneering spirit of the collaborative encyclopaedia is in decline. The research found that in the first three months of this year the English-language...
Tags: Ireland, Dublin, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Ortega, Nonprofit technology, Social information processing, Scientific revolution, St. Petersburg Florida, Robert Peel, Technology Internet, Online encyclopedias, Wikis
Wikipedia Founder Creates Help Site for Homeless
Tampa :: FL :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Fla. The founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless. Jimmy Wales was in town Friday to introduce the launch of tampabayhomess.wikia.com. The project creates an online resource...
Tags: Tampa, Busking, Socioeconomics, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, St. Petersburg Florida, Homelessness, New encyclopedism, Wikimedia Foundation, Technology Internet
Craigslist founder joins Wikimedia advisory board
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The nonprofit group that runs online encyclopedia Wikipedia said Friday that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board. More Business The Wikimedia Foundation said it chose Newmark as an adviser because...
Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Craig Newmark, San Francisco, Newmark, Mitch Kapor, Roger McNamee, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Online social networking, Craigslist, Technology Internet
Wikipedia sued by German killers in privacy claim
Berlin :: Germany | 14 days ago
Credibility The case has become an instant online cause celebre – with one lawyer saying that the integrity of history itself is at stake – because it ranges the US's First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, against German privacy and criminal laws, which...
Tags: Germany, Berlin, Tron, Privacy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation, Mike Godwin, Wikipedia, Law Crime, New encyclopedism, Web 2.0, Human-computer interaction, Hypertext
Wikipedia plans to launch editorial controls
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 3 months ago
Credibility After eight years of allowing anyone to edit entries on Wikipedia, the non-profit foundation that runs the online encyclopedia is planning to add a feature that requires editors to sign off on some entries. The Wikimedia Foundation is planning on testing...
Tags: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, online encyclopedia, curbing false, false information
Orange and Wikimedia join forces for mobile information portals
Orange :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility European telecom company Orange has struck a deal with the Wikimedia Foundation to expand mobile access to a broad range of information and content in the U.K., Spain, Poland and France. After a short pilot period, the plan is to roll these services,...
Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Orange
PC World: Ogg and Friends Challenge Flash
Oslo :: Norway | 10 months ago
Credibility Theora is also the video format of choice for all Wikimedia Foundation projects. Mozilla, Wikimedia and Xiph.org hope to unseat the predominant video standard on the web, Adobe Flash. Microsoft is already encroaching on Flash's dominance with its Silverlight...
Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Mozilla
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