Free software and social networking
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| Today at Wikia we have released our social networking features for MediaWiki
| under the GNU GPL 2.0. The best place to see this running live is at
| Halopedia, our Halo site.
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http://blog.jimmywales.com/index.php/archives/2008/02/28/free-software-and-social-networking/
Wikipedia, Wikia and the Future of Free Culture
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| The Wikipedia’s license allows you the:
| Freedom to copy
| Freedom to modify
| Freedom to redistribute
| Freedom to redistribute modified versions
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| He goes on to further refine his term the sum of all human knowledge. He
| describes Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, not a data dump. This is a Global
| Movement to gather content in every single language.
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http://johntynan.com/archives/114
Niche social networks welcome: Wikia open sources social tools
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| Community wiki building site Wikia, has announced they are allowing their
| social networking platform to become open source. This will allow anyone to
| easily create a social community complete with profiles, avatars, friending,
| etc… within their MediaWiki-based wiki sites.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/28/niche-social-networks-welcome-wikia-open-sources-social-tools
Free knowledge, indexing, software... now, /that's/ science.
Related:
Wikia's Search Philosophy: It Takes a Village to Challenge a Giant
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| "What you see here is our first alpha release," says a greeting on the Wikia
| Search site. "We are aware that the quality of the search results is low. Of
| course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are
| pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please
| bookmark the site and return often."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/61080.html
Wikia search engine to go live on Monday
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| Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy
| Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an
| open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this
| Google-dominated market.
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http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1634/search-wikia-goes-live-080107/
Wikia Search Project to Launch Jan. 7, Wales says
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| Wales has started to invite a handful of people to test an early version of
| the search platform, which will be publicly launched on Jan. 7, he wrote in
| anemailto the Wikia mailing list Monday.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/24/AR2007122401567.html
Wikipedia like search engine to use Apache Lucene - Nutch
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| The search engine, code-named Wikiasari, would combine open source
| technology and human intervention to deliver more relevant results
| than the algorithm-based systems used today, Wales said Tuesday.
| "Human intelligence is still the best thing we have, so let's let
| humans do what they do best, and computers do what they do best."
|
| Wales says that the reason for Wikiasari is that search as we know
| it is broken: "It is broken for the same reason that proprietary
| software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community,
| lack of accountability, lack of transparency."
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http://www.indicthreads.com/news/1062/wikipedia_search_engine_apache_lucene_nutch.html
Wikipedia founder hunts for gold
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| Wales also puts his faith in the open-source model. He cites Linux
| reseller Red Hat (Charts), a for-profit company built on top of a
| free, open-source software foundation. Many doubted Red Hat could
| build a profitable business around something as defiantly
| not-for-profit as Linux, but the Raleigh, N.C., company proved
| them wrong. Third-quarter revenue for Red Hat was $105.8
| million in 2006, up 45 percent from the previous year.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
http://tinyurl.com/yrxqrn
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