Wikimedia Foundation

...of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. Wikimedia Begins Its Annual Fundraising Drive A post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of Wikimedia, says that the 2009 drive...

In this article: Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner, Wikipedia, and Yale Daily News

...names from the German-language version about the victim, Walter Sedlmayr. But Mr Stopp has also filed a suit in Germany demanding that the Wikimedia Foundation remove their names from the English-language article. This has triggered...

In this article: Wikipedia, Floyd Abrams, United States, Germany, English-language Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Jennifer Granick

...the German-language version of the article about the victim, Walter Sedlmayr. Now Stopp, in suits in German courts, is demanding that the Wikimedia Foundation, the American organization that runs Wikipedia, do the same with the...

In this article: Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Granick, and George Orwell

...that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board. The Wikimedia Foundation said it chose Newmark as an adviser because of his work as an innovator and evangelist and his understanding of...

In this article: The Wikimedia Foundation, Craigslist, Craig Newmark, San Francisco, Web-based, Wikipedia, and Electronic Frontier Foundation

...even filters them out. "Knowledge Forever, Ad-Free Forever, Wikipedia Forever," say the ads. They link to this page asking for donations to the Wikimedia Foundation. Update: Readers point out that this is an annual effort by Wikipedia.

In this article: Wikipedia, AOL, Revenue, Firefox, MediaWiki, Craigslist, Jason Calacanis, and Craig Newmark

...Project for Tentative Q4 2010 Rollout Wikimedia Begins the Bookshelf Project for Tentative Q4 2010 Rollout November 11th, 2009 The Wikimedia foundation, those folks behind Wikipedia, announced last week the Bookself Project, which is...

In this article: Wikipedia and YouTube

Demonstrating that June's migration of Wikimedia sites to CC Attribution-ShareAlike as their main content liense was a signal of much greater interoperability among free and open content projects going forward and not merely an end in...

In this article: Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikimedia, California Academy of Sciences, Open Publication License, Creative Commons license, and Wikispecies

A daily newsletter with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. Wikimedia Foundation Launches The Bookshelf Project Maybe you've been editing Wikipedia for years. Or maybe you made your first edit...

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...asking whether people think he's a hero or villain. With my tweet I'd been hoping to get a feel for opinion on the Wikipedia, Wikimedia and Wikia founder. Which is he then, I ask? Hero or villain? "Oh I would say both," he replies...

In this article: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, CNET News, Wikimedia, Wikia, Twitter, and Microsoft

...educators and journalists. Wikimedia and comScore Announce Partnership; Top 10 Countries by Engagement on Wikimedia Sites Wikimedia Foundation today announced an on-going partnership with comScore that will help expand the...

In this article: Comscore, Foundation, Wikipedia, Asia, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada