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Wikipedia Raises 6.2 Million Dollars
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| Thanks to contributions of $6.2 million, the financial future of the free
| encyclopedia Wikipedia in 2009 is secured.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/wikipedia_raises_6_2_million_dollars
Copyright Once Again Being Used To Hinder Culture, Not Enable It
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| I'm still working my way through James Boyle's excellent The Public Domain,
| but it's chock full of examples of ways that copyright holds back cultural
| expression -- and that comes to mind in reading the saga of a movie called
| Sita Sings the Blues. It was brought to my attention by Rich W, who saw the
| film at a film festival a while back and loved it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090105/0221333286.shtml
Recent:
An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
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| Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We
| have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is
| free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six
| million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
| which I founded in 2003.
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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Letter/en?utm_source=2008_jimmy_letter_r&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=fundraiser2008#appeal
What happened to Free and Open Knowledge?
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| People have been bullied through laws and propaganda into “helping” those
| corporations (and supposedly society as well) by treating abstract
| computer-readable files as physical objects. This information could be
| shared freely and benefit all. Advocates of this technique say that it is
| the only way to promote progress, but in reality, it does nothing but
| diminish its importance. I suppose I can see how some could
| confuse “progress” and “private inside information”, as they look the same
| from the outside. What is the purpose, however, of useful information if it
| cannot be built upon and actually used? Think about if your grandma had
| a “secret recipe” for the greatest cookies in the world. If she kept this
| recipe to herself, nobody but the people in your close family could enjoy
| these cookies. Master chefs could, no doubt, fiddle with this recipe for
| years trying to find an improvement or inventing ways to adopt these cookies
| for other cultures. If they were unable to improve perfection, they could
| still learn new techniques from your grandma and apply those to other
| recipes.
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http://trombonechamp.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/what-happened-to-free-and-open-knowledge/
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
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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