Wikimedia

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• Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia’s Parent

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  German courts allow the suppression of a criminal’s name in news accounts once he has paid his debt to society, a provision that is now pitted against the American First Amendment.
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• Three Projects Begin Using/Upgrading Creative Commons Licenses

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Mike Linksvayer at Creative Commons has a new post announcing three different projects using or upgrading licenses. The most notable is the Fedora Project , which will be adopting BY-SA for its documentation. AntWeb , a website dedicated to ants is moving from BY-NC to BY-SA. Lastly, Wikitravel is upgrading from ...
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• Annual Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 130
  Every year, people are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation is a charity. We need the gifts of our public to ensure the continued existence of the organisation that pays for the many Wiki communities that bring you Wikipedia , Wiktionary , Wikiversity in many languages. The Foundation pays for the servers, ...
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• [guest] AntWeb goes CC-BY-SA

  
  All The Modern Things — Authority: 388
  Waldir has previously guest-blogged here and I am happy to welcome him back for his second post. Congrats on helping make this cool project happen! —Brianna Image by AntWeb , licensed CC-BY-SA-3.0 written by Waldir Pimenta Did you know that the most venomous insect in the world is an ant ? ...
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• Wikipedia Prepares for the Noisiest Fundraising Campaign of All

  
  Profy — Authority: 415
  In the end of every year Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit institution behind the famous Wikipedia, launches the efforts of raising funds to run Wikipedia next year - to finance salaries of employees, numerous servers or whatever else it may be that is needed to run a huge website that Wikipedia has grown to be ...
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• Wikimedia and comScore partner to improve understanding of the reach and impact of free knowledge on the Web

  
  Your Story — Authority: 159
  Digital market intelligence leader expands Wikimedia’s global user research horizonSAN FRANCISCO November 3, 2009 – Wikimedia Foundation today announced an on-going partnership with comScore that will help expand the Foundation’s awareness of global Web audience trends and demographics, particularly for top ten ...
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• Butterfly vindula arsinoe.jpg [POTD for November 03 from commons.wikimedia.org]

  
  LocalBias — Authority: 150
  
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• Support OpenID; a featured proposal

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 130
  At the strategy Wiki , they asked for proposals. Many proposals were formulated and some of them are good enough to become a Featured Proposal . I just learned that the " Support OpenID " proposal is featured. That is good news because it may mean that this is considered a worthwhile and doable proposal. The key to ...
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• The best of news from ICANN

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 130
  I am absolutely positely ecstatic with the news that URLs can be completely in other scripts. This is important news because it will make it that much more easy to use the Internet. Many people do not know a language that is written in the Latin script and so far they have been forced to use this script in order to ...
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• World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 130
  Today, the 25th of October is the " World day for Audiovisual Heritage ". This UNESCO event is about the material generated by radio, television and movies. They have dominated much of the communication in the previous century. and will continue to do so. On a daylike this, it is appropriate to reflect on what our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wikimedia finds a new home!

  
  Wikimedia blog — Authority: 523
  It’s not far from the old home, but it’s almost three times as big and can very comfortably hold the 28 (and growing!) local Wikimedia Foundation staff. Our new offices at 149 New Montgomery, just south of Market street in San Francisco have very quickly become the new home base for the small group that keeps ...
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• Choosing a measure for success

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 130
  The Wikimedia Foundation is defining its strategy . In order to define a strategy, you have to aim at achieving something. Obviously, our goal is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The question is, how do you measure that you are achieving your goal.. What ...
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• L-Assemblee-Nationale-Gillray.jpeg [POTD for October 26 from commons.wikimedia.org]

  
  LocalBias — Authority: 150
  
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• A great Dutch chapter meeting

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 130
  Yesterday I was at a Dutch chapter members meeting. It was fun, the board informed about the things that happened in the last year and explained about the things projected for the next year. In my opinion it was a great meeting. The board was open in the choices it faced and explained about what made projects ...
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• A Bright Future Ahead for One of Our Own

  
  WikiProject Oregon — Authority: 98
  This is a big day for WikiProject Oregon. While we are a truly collaborative effort among a diverse group, it’s no doubt that this project owes a great deal to the hard work of Pete Forsyth . Pete has been instrumental in the organization of WikiProject Oregon, especially in public outreach work. This very blog ...
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• College Football Picks: Boise State Broncos vs. Hawaii Warriors …

  
  ajf7688 Blog — Authority:
  The Boise State Broncos visit Hawaii for the first time this year. (Wikimedia Images) The Boise State Broncos, with their work cut out for them despite …… The rest is here: College Football Picks: Boise State Broncos vs. Hawaii Warriors …
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• A Halloween Haunting

  
  Horse Racing Tips and Horse Racing Results — Authority: 158
  A Halloween Haunting In the darkest depths of the forest Where the sun’s rays rarely fell, Stood an old house, worn and broken And so many stories it could tell. Image via Wikimedia What happened to the family that lived there? In the walls of this once much loved home? What made them leave their belongings? For ...
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• Tracy Morgan – a photographic essay for I Am the New Black

  
  David Shankbone — Authority: 465
  Between Saturday Night Live, Scare Tactics and 30 Rock, Tracy Morgan has become a one man gang of hysterical. Now he’s written a book about his experience, I Am the New Black . Amongst its revelations are how he felt about his former Saturday Night Live cast members: “I had my finger on the pulse of urban ...
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• Open Microblogging Service Hires Former Creative Commons Strategist

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Introducing the nail gun

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 130
  Yesterday I blogged with the title " When the only tool you have is a hammer ... ". Inspired by this Siebrand created a demo... It says so on the first message DEMO... The people at translatewiki.net love a demo as well, they demonstrate their enthusiasm for a platform that helps translators do their thing ...
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