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[News] Wikipedia Expands in the East, India Too

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Wikipedia launches ‘academy’

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| Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.com launched the ‘Wikipedia Academy’ here 
| today in a bid to increase its popularity and to reach out to large number of 
| rural masses in the country.  
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| “This is the first in Asia after the launch of the first Academy last month 
| in Germany” Wikipedia.com Founder Jimmy Wales told reporters in Chennai. 
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http://www.expeditemall.com/wikipedia-launches-academy.php

Wiki-community strives to extend eastward

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| There are many reasons for Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to take 
| interest in India. One of them is the need for balance in socio-geographic 
| perspective in Wiki articles. "Being a global encyclopedia, we need an 
| east-west balance in our content, quantitatively as well as perceptively," 
| said Wikimedia foundation founder Jimmy Wales, who was in Chennai on Friday 
| for the formal inauguration of Asia's first Wikipedia academy.      
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Wiki-community_looking_eastward/articleshow/3830044.cms


Recent:

British ISPs restrict access to Wikipedia amid child pornography allegations

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| Wikinews has learned that at least six of the United Kingdom's main Internet
| Service Providers (ISPs) have implemented monitoring and filtering mechanisms
| that are causing major problems for UK contributors on websites operated by
| the Wikimedia Foundation, amongst up to 1200 other websites.
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_ISPs_restrict_access_to_Wikipedia_amid_child_pornography_allegations?curid=117771
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