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• End of year translationrally at #translatewiki.net

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 114
  It is that time of year again, translatewiki.net has its end of year translation rally again. Nine hundred EURO will be divided among all the localisers who complete 500 new MediaWiki messages or more and one hundred EURO will be divided between the two people who finish the most new messages. The last month ...
  6 days ago

• Bloomberg Interviews Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales [VIDEO]

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 523
  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was on Bloomberg TV earlier this week to clarify that there has not been a mass exodus of voluntary editors.  Wikipedia is still very much driven by the community. Wales also revealed some interesting numbers about Wikipedia.  To maintain Wikipedia, it costs around $10 million per ...
  1 week ago

• Wikipedia Shatters Fundraising Record for Single Day

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 693
  Wikipedia had a record-shattering day this week. On Tuesday afternoon, the Wikimedia Foundation posted a personal appeal from its founder, Jimmy Wales. In that, Wales said : The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization I created in 2003 to operate, grow, nurture, and protect Wikipedia. For ten million US ...
  1 week ago

• Wikipedia ordered by judge to break confidentiality of contributor

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  A senior judge has ordered Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to disclose the identity of one of its contributors after a mother and her young child pleaded for help in identifying an alleged blackmailer.
  3 weeks ago

• Wikipedia Director Talks Editors, Editing, and Future

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  We recently reported on the notion that Wikipedia losing editors could lead to a decline in accuracy. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , which runs Wikipedia, tells WebProNews growth in editing has slowed, but the number of editors is just flat, and not declining. read more
  4 weeks ago

• Wikipedia Director Talks Editors, Editing, and Future

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 693
  We recently reported on the notion that Wikipedia losing editors could lead to a decline in accuracy. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , which runs Wikipedia, tells WebProNews growth in editing has slowed, but the number of editors is just flat, and not declining. The Wikimedia ...
  4 weeks ago

• Will a Lack of Editors Affect Wikipedia Accuracy?

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 693
  Wikipedia is a very useful site for anyone looking to find information on any given topic. Chances are that you have used it for research at one time or another. Even if you dont start by going directly to Wikipedia, results from the site are often at the top of search results in Google, and youll get there anyway. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wikipedia disputes claims of mass departure of editors

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Nov 28 (ANI): Wikipedia has disputed claims that a huge number of its editors, who help maintain the online encyclopaedia, have walked out.It had been reported on November 26 that ten times more editors had left Wikipedia in early 2009 than during the same period in 2008.But the team overseeing the reference ...
  4 weeks ago

• Arguing Over a Meaningless Concept

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  I continue to be surprised that Wikipedia has never been on the receiving end of a Chutzpah of the Week award. I gave one to Jimmy Wales this past April ; but that was not for anything specifically having to do with Wikipedia. Rather, it was for an outrageous act of cultural amnesia , which, ironically, could ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is Wikipedia Dying or Just Maturing?

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 526
  There was a very interesting front-page article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Julia Angwin and Geoffrey Fowler wondering whether Wikipedia , the wildly popular online encyclopedia, was dying because of new posting guidelines which have apparently led to a drop off in the number of volunteers contributing ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Benefits of Open Source Software

  
  IENACE — Authority: 139
  As unbelievable as it appears, there are hundreds of companies and foundations out there that actively create and distribute software for no cost. The reason for them opening up their software is varied, but the advantages to the customers is huge. Back in the 1970’s, computer geeks and nerds would create software ...
  5 weeks ago

• Im Donating Dinner to Wikipedia

  
  Rocket Watcher — Authority: 91
  Last week I won a catered holiday dinner for 8 people as part of my spoils from the AIPMM Blogger Battle .  The catch was that I would have to pick it up from the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose and I live in Toronto.  As much as I like the idea of flying to San Jose and inviting a random group of people to eat roast ...
  5 weeks ago

• A localisation is growing up

  
  Words and what not — Authority: 114
  Every now and again we have at translatewiki.net a request that is a bit out of the ordinary. The request that OsamaK made today is one such; he asked for the support of gender to be enabled for the Arabic language. Gender support was originally implemented for the Slavic languages and now this mechanism is ...
  5 weeks ago

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