Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikipedia campaign raises over US$6.2M
News Fund raising drive by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has led to over 125,000 people making donations to the online community-generated encyclopaedia.
Tags: Web sites, Internet, Internet advertising, Open-source Software, Wikipedia, Advertisement, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Server, software
Wikimedia receives US$500,000 from Hewlett Foundation
News Nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia plans to use grant to improve user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, among other things.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Training, nonprofit organization, Wikipedia, Wikimedia, San Francisco, director, Web 2.0, executive director
Convert 'play tools' for work
Cobrand Enterprises that turn tools such as Wikis and IM, into components of a knowledge management strategy are helping employees work smarter, say industry experts.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Mobile platforms/communications, Corporate communications, Employee communications
Wikimedia Foundation turns down Phorm
News After Amazon did the same earlier last week, Wikimedia has become the latest Web giant to opt out of Phorm's user-tracking targeted-advertising system.
Tags: Internet advertising, Privacy, motivation, Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Amazon.com Inc., Web company, U.K., Internet advertising
Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the living
News New feature to be deployed soon on a test wiki assigns an experienced editor to sign off on changes to articles on those who are alive and well.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Data Management, Wiki, Wikipedia, Server, New York Times Co., job, spokesman, Web 2.0
Wikipedia's controversial video player coming soon
News According to its video guru, the Web encyclopedia's revamped player is coming very soon. But its format is causing a stir in the open source community.
Tags: Video, Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser, video player, Wikipedia, codec
Wikimedia Foundation: Jimmy Wales 'absolutely' not out
News Valleywag reported Saturday that the Wikipedia founder was out at the foundation that runs the Web-based encyclopedia. But the foundation strongly disputes it.
Tags: Web sites, Best strategies, Business plans, Wikipedia, Jimmy, RFC, e-mail, job, News.com, founder
Wikipedia racks up 1 million articles
News Collaborative online encyclopedia may have had a tough 2005, but it now has more than a million articles in English to share.
Tags: Web sites
Wikipedia hits 10 million total articles
News Including entries in approximately 250 languages, user-created encyclopedia marks a milestone.
Tags: Web sites
Open-source project treads on Google Maps turf
News Volunteers with GPS devices aim to map the planet and loosen the grip of government on geographic data.
Tags: GPS, Web sites, Open source, Government
Baidu's censored answer to Wikipedia
News news analysis The Chinese search engine's Baike online encyclopedia blocks politically sensitive entries; some say it condones plagiarism and copyright abuse.
