icommons.org - 1/2/2009
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home Wikipedia Academies Wikipedia Academies banner_500.gif img_7176.jpg logos_w_acad_03.jpg logos_w_acad_01.png Click here to watch a short video by Mann Made Media , showing highlights from this event. Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, launched the African Wikipedia Academy series at CIDA City ...
blog.twitter.com - 1/4/2009
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blog.twitter.com —
Wikipedia defines phishing as "the criminally fraudulent process
of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames,
passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication." Tonight, we ...
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Gone Phishing
blog.jimmywales.com - 1/2/2009
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blog.jimmywales.com —
I advise the world to relax a notch
or two. :-) We are not considering advertising on
Wikipedia. Visit World Wikia (travel), Campaigns Wikia (reforming politics), and Star Wars Wikia, a.k.a. Wookieepedia. For some types of communities, advertising to ...
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Advertising and Wikipedia
dgl.cx - 1/4/2009
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dgl.cx —
I had written some code to take wikipedia
articles and summarise them. I wanted to offer this
for use in various places, now the obvious way to offer it is just a web service (via REST, SOAP, etc), but that's boring and I had a cunning plan. Why not ...
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Wikipedia over DNS
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$6.2 Million: Wikipedia Reaches Fundraising Goal for 2008
ReadWriteWeb —
... According to Jimmy Wales, these donations will be used to pay for the day-to-day operations of the Wikimedia Foundation, including the costs of hosting and bandwidth, as well as the salary of its small staff of only 23 people. The Wikimedia foundation will also use these funds to support outreach events like the Wikipedia Academies and to help its volunteer community. ...
Wikipedia raises $6.2 M, exceeds 2008 fundraising goal
VentureBeat —
... Wales specifies that donations will go towards the foundation’s day-to-day operations, including servers and bandwith and improvements to open source software, as well as the salaries of its small staff of 23 people. Funds will also go towards supporting Wikipedia’s international network of volunteers and outreach events like Wikipedia Academies, in-person workshops that help attendees learn more about how to use and edit Wikpedia. I’m especially excited about Wikimedia producing ...
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