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- HP lets Wikipedia users publish personal magazines
- The founder of Wikipedia is teaming up with computer firm Hewlett Packard HP to allow users to publish their own printed magazines. Jimmy Wales says Wiki users have more than 3m pages of Wikipedia information at their disposal from which to compile the magazine content. Users select the content...
- Articles 2009-10-21
- Google News experiments with Wikipedia links
- Google News is experimenting with displaying links to Wikipedia articles in the list of sources on some of its stories. The news comes only a month after Google CEO Eric Schmidt criticised newspapers for failing to make a profit from online distribution, advising them to take inspiration from user-generated...
- Articles 2009-06-09
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- Wikimedia requests license change.(industry news)(Wikimedia Foundation requests Free Software Foundation to modify GNU Free Documentation License)(Brief article)
- The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees formally requested that the Free Software Foundation FSF modify the GNU Free Documentation License GFDL so that mass collaborative projects such as Wikipedia can use and license existing GFDL content under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license. This resolution is...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Wikimedia Foundation Announces Corporate Support of Wikipedia from Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the Organization to Run Wikipedia Independently
- ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. & SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that develops and maintains free open content for the public, and Yahoo! Search, a leading global search engine, today announced that Yahoo! Search will dedicate hardware and resources to support Wikipedia, a community based encyclopedia written and edited...
- Research articles 2005-04-07
- Wikimedia Foundation denies financial difficulties
- CLERMONT-FERRAND, France AFP — The president of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the free Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, denied rumours circulating on the web that it is dangerously short of money. Florence Devouard, who lives in central France, is quoted by bloggers as saying that the Foundation only has resources...
- Research articles 2007-02-20
- Wikimedia Reels In $500,000 Grant
- It looks like everyone's favorite source for info about sci-fi characters, historical trivia, and other random stuff will be safe for a while longer. The Wikimedia Foundation, which is the organization behind Wikipedia, has received a $500,000 grant. The grant came from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Sue...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Digital Philanthropy Round-Up: Brin Gives To Creative Commons; Omidyar Backs Wikimedia
- No apparent connection, but this week brought news of two major gifts from big names to non-profits in the digital media space. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin, along with his wife Anne Wojcicki, have donated $500,000 to Creative Commons, the non-profit behind the Creative Commons licenses, which make...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Wikipedia learns hiring lesson Foundation discovers former executive
- The foundation that runs -- and accepts donations for -- the online encyclopedia Wikipedia neglected to do a basic background check before hiring a chief operating officer who had been convicted of theft, drunken driving and fleeing a car accident. Before she left in July, Carolyn Bothwell...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Wikipedia learns hiring lesson Foundation discovers former executive
- The foundation that runs -- and accepts donations for -- the online encyclopedia Wikipedia neglected to do a basic background check before hiring a chief operating officer who had been convicted of theft, drunken driving and fleeing a car accident. Before she left in July, Carolyn Bothwell...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Wikipedia parent gets $500,000 to improve user friendliness
- The not-for-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia has received a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its effort to make educational information freely accessible. "The enormous popularity of Wikipedia and its collaborative premise make the Wikimedia Foundation an ideal vehicle for spreading the open educational resources...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Wikipedia proves its popularity with fundraising surge
- Good news for all fans of Wikipedia.The nonprofit foundation that runs the online encyclopedia has met its $6 million fundraising goal for this fiscal year until the end of June. The money came pouring in after the site's founder Jimmy Wales posted an appeal for support on Wikipedia's pages in...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Wikipedia's Parent Org Gets $2 Million Grant From eBay Founder
- The Omidyar Network, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's philanthropic and investment organization, announced today that it will give the Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia, a $2 million grant over the next two years. At current spending levels, Omidyar will be contributing just over 10% of WIkipedia's full expenses. The Foundation...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Out of a Job
- Imagine an online encylopedia anyone can edit — and no one can run. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's sleaze-drenched cofounder, is no longer a board member of the site's nonprofit foundation. Who's in charge here? Not Wales. His term expired on December 31, along with two other trustees. The board of the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Wikipedia Raises Needed Funds for Its Operations
- The Wikimedia Foundation has raised the necessary funds to operate Wikipedia until the end of June, the nonprofit organization announced Friday. Wikimedia has received about US$6.2 million since launching its fundraising campaign in early November. More than 125,000 donors have chipped in. The organization will use the money to maintain...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Wikipedia launches iPhone application
- Wikipedia says it has released an iPhone application as part of a drive to open the pages of its revered online encyclopedia to the booming ranks of smart phone users. Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia, has made free software for iPhones available at Apple's online App Store. "Everybody...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Wikipedia editors to stop vandals messing with articles of the living
- Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit that runs the user-driven online encyclopaedia. Confirming a story reported on Monday by The New York Times,...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Contextual search within Wikipedia
- We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia skin that makes it easier for you to complete your research on Wikipedia. Wikipedia allows users to register and personalize their Wikipedia environment via the configuration of options and the use of styles or skins. Just...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Wikipedia (Finally) Has an Official iPhone App
- While there are many unofficial Wikipedia iPhone apps on the market some of which work really well, there's never been an official one from Wikipedia itself. That changed today as the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia, has launched an official iPhone application: Wikipedia Mobile [iTunes Link]. The free...
- News items 2009-08-18
- paidContent Quick Hits: 8.25.09
- » Arianna Huffington wants the HuffPo to “move like an Internet newspaper,” so she’s preparing sports, tech and book spinoffs to launch within the next two months. [The Wrap]» Now that Wikipedia links are ubiquitous, the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to add another layer of security to edits made...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Wikipedia founder in HP online magazine print deal
- JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia said on Wednesday he had entered into a partnership with computer company Hewlett Packard that will allow users to create and print magazines. Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-edited Wikipedia, said users will be able to publish personal magazines using content...
- News items 2009-10-22
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