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[News] Wikimedia Adds Free Software Diva Danese Cooper, Targets CDs

  • Subject: [News] Wikimedia Adds Free Software Diva Danese Cooper, Targets CDs
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:46:03 +0000
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Wikimedia hires open-source veteran as CTO

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| The Wikimedia Foundation, publisher of 
| Wikipedia and other online sites, has hired 
| open-source veteran Danese Cooper as chief 
| technology officer.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000028-264.html

Wikipedia squeezed onto a single CD

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| A South American group has managed to 
| shrink virtually the full content of 
| Wikipedia onto a CD which can be read with 
| on-the-fly compression.
| 
| The Argentinian Python users' group, PyAr, 
| aims to distribute the CDPedia CD to remote 
| schools which lack connectivity. 
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http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/48241-wikipedia-squeezed-onto-a-single-cd


Recent:

Wikimedia Commons breaks 5,000,000 files

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| Hot on the heels of the recent milestone of 3,000,000 articles on English
| Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons has just lodged its own major milestone: passing
| the 5,000,000 binary mark.  Wikimedia Commons is the vast image, video,
| sound, illustration (and more) repository of works that can be freely reused
| by anyone, and perhaps most notably to users is the space where all of
| Wikipediaâs images are stored.  Few would dispute that Wikimedia Commons is
| the largest single collection of freely reusable images on the internet.
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http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/02/wikimedia-commons-breaks-5000000-files/


Wikimedia receives $2 million grant from Omidyar Network

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| The Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation responsible for the operation of
| the Wikipedia free online encyclopaedia, has received a $2 million grant from
| the Omidyar Network
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/144329


Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People

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| Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about
| eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from
| the contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably
| improve, the content.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?_r=2


Wikimedia receives $500,000 from Hewlett Foundation

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| The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization responsible for the operation of
| the Wikipedia free online encyclopaedia, has received $500,000 from the
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/144064
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