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4 Dec 2008, 12:05 pm
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit entity behind the immensely popular Wikipedia, just announced a new project that is meant to make it a lot easier for inexperienced authors to contribute articles and edits to the project. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 3:06 am
The foundation that runs the Wikipedia Web site plans to add 44 employees in the next year -- roughly doubling the size of its current professional staff -- and to raise $20 million to support a much-enhanced vision for the volunteer-created encyclopedia that nearly anyone can edit. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 4:16 pm
“Wikiverse is an independent initiative and not affiliated with Wikipedia. or the Wikimedia foundation. [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 7:22 pm
Will Wikipedia exist in 20 years? [read post]
21 May 2009, 11:29 pm
Big news from the Wikimedia Foundation, the governing body of Wikipedia. [read post]
11 May 2017, 7:24 pm
Wikipedia Blog: “Wikipedia editors can now draw on WorldCat, the world’s largest database of books, to generate citations on Wikipedia thanks to a collaboration between OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Library program. [read post]
10 Dec 2008, 3:12 pm
The Guardian reports that the ban on a Wikipedia page discussing a Scorpions album cover is over, following a review by the Internet Watch Foundation, of its decision to place the page on its "censored" list because of... [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 3:39 pm
And Wikipedia’s own culture pushes back against granular data harvesting: The Wikimedia Foundation’s strong data-privacy rules guarantee users’ anonymity and limit the modes and duration of their own use of editor data. [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 9:31 am
Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, joins Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler for a conversation about the future of Wikipedia and global crowdsourced knowledge. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 10:45 am
When he joined Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's parent organization, he was fascinated by the impact that Wikipedia had on copyright liability and free speech--something that clearly continues today. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 6:58 am
The summary of the facts and legal claims are as follows: Any Kat gets easily lost in the labyrinth of never-ending Wikipedia links In January 2013, Mr Cesare Previti, a former Italian Minister of Defence during Mr Silvio Berlusconi’s term as Prime Minister, served a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation on the grounds that the Italian-language Wikipedia article “Cesare Previti” (himself a lawyer and not a stranger to trials… [read post]
24 Aug 2021, 3:54 pm
OCLC Research: “The vision statement of the Wikimedia Foundation states, “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 7:32 pm
News release: “OCLC and the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Library are working together to make it easy for editors to link citations in Wikipedia to millions of library materials represented in WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections. [read post]
1 May 2009, 3:34 am
The Internet Watch Foundation has just issued its 2008 Annual Report (PDF) where it offers this defence of its role in the Wikipedia blocking saga, along with an indication that it will review its procedures in light of this case:Wikipedia on the IWF listIn December our hotline received a report regarding an indecent image of a pre-pubescent girl on a Wikipedia page. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 2:01 am
But what about Wikipedia? [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 2:27 am
Wikipedia's Non-Profit Foundation Hits Fundraising Milestone"Most of the Foundation's revenue comes from private individuals, and donations average around $25. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 5:21 pm
The British group the Internet Watch Foundation indicated that it thought the cover, which... [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 3:37 pm
The Wikimedia Foundation, the force behind the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is moving its headquarters to San Francisco this winter, further solidifying the Bay Area’s position as the epicenter of the Web 2.0 movement, which focuses on collaboration, community and user-generated content. [read post]
9 May 2018, 7:07 pm
Wikimedia: “Citations are the foundation of Wikipedia’s reliability: they trace the connection between content added by our community of volunteer contributors and its sources. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 4:55 pm
Press Release - "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. [read post]
