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Wikimedia donates servers to deserving non-profits.
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| Every year, Wikipedia usage goes upward, and
| every year the technical folks working and
| volunteering with Wikimedia have to plan,
| purchase, and implement new servers to keep up
| to the growing popularity of Wikipedia and its
| sister projects. With the advances in
| computing, running 9 new application servers
| this year took the load of 36 application
| servers from 3 years ago.
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http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/02/wikimedia-donates-servers-to-deserving-non-profits/
Pubs win court battle over recorded music charges
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| Pubs, restaurants and hotels could share
| Â20m in refunds after winning a court battle
| over the charges they pay for playing
| recorded music.
|
| The High Court upheld a ruling from a
| copyright tribunal that the tariffs
| introduced in 2005 were unfair.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8513734.stm
Recent:
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
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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