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[News] Wikipedia Moves to Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike 3.0

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Wikipedia begins content licence migration

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| The free internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia is beginning its licence migration 
| today. In the future, the content of Wikipedia will be dual licensed, under 
| the current GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL) and under the Creative 
| Commons Attribution/Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA). The update is beginning with 
| the English Wikipedia projects, as a reference implementation of the licence 
| change, and will expand to Wikipedia in other languages in the near future. 
| From this point on, GFDL-only licensed content will no longer be accepted.      
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Wikipedia-begins-content-licence-migration--/news/113527

The Size of the Public Domain

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| Having already obtained estimates of the number of items (publications) 
| produced each year based on library catalogue data our next step is to 
| convert this into an estimate of the “size” of the public domain. (NB: as 
| already discussed, “size” could mean several different things. Here, at least 
| to start with, we’re going to take the simplest and crudest approach and  
| equate size with number of publications/items.)    
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http://www.rufuspollock.org/2009/06/12/the-size-of-the-public-domain/


Recent:

Wikimedia Foundation's Mobile Site Caters to Android, iPhone

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| Despite Wikipedia's occasional inaccuracies, it has grown up to be a useful
| tool. It's good to see an optimized mobile edition of it.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/wikimedia-foundations-mobile-site-caters-to-android-iphone


Related:

The pedia phenomenon

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| I have decided most critics of Wikipedia miss the point.
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| They focus on the wiki aspect, the idea that many contributors can offer
| their input, and the chance that some of that input is wrong.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1267
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