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Wikimania

wikinews.org: Jimmy Wales presenting Wikia at presentation at Wikimania 2007 Image: Craig Spurrier. wikinews.org

Potential Wikia mass exodus

wikinews.org
03-Aug-2008
        

From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! Recently Wikia, a commercial company co-founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, announced that it would be making changes in the appearances of its wikis, specifically...

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FREESOULS: Captured and Released by Joi Ito

ito.com
01-Aug-2008 1 related
        

For over a year now, I've been taking photographs of people and posting them on Flickr with the "freesouls" tag. Having been struggling with printing myself at the time and considering the business models of CC books, I...

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Wikimania 2008

alhen.wordpress.com
30-Jul-2008
        

Wikimania 2008, originally uploaded by lucbyhet. I was in Egypt for my first Wikimania. I was here to feel how one of the biggest global collaborative project works, from a governance and technological standpoint. I'm not a...

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Wikimania Sessions - Devwiki

bibsonomy.org
28-Jul-2008
        

This is the place for people who couldn't make it to the Wikimania event to catch up and watch the sessions they missed. The session descriptions have been copied from Wikimania 2008 site. Feel free to add your own footage from...

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Paper presentation at Wikimania 2008, Alexandria Egypt

alhen.wordpress.com
25-Jul-2008
        

On July 19th I presented a paper in Alexandria, Egypt, on the global conferens Wikimania 2008. The title of this presentation was "Should librarians cross the Wikipedian border to reach young users?" It reflects on the fact...

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Web users shunning Arabic Wikipedia

itp.net
24-Jul-2008 1 related
        

By Vineetha Menon on Thursday, July 24, 2008 Arabic Internet users are shunning the Arabic-language version of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, according to speakers at the Wikipedia conference. The annual Wikipedia conference,...

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Arabic Wikimania

bbc.co.uk
23-Jul-2008 2 related
        

Wikipedia has become as popular as a hard back encyclopaedia Egypt's second largest city Alexandria, has just played host to the annual meeting of the Wikimedia foundation, the non-profit organisation that is responsible for...

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Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages

chineselinuxuniversity.net
21-Jul-2008
        

Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. The idea, which is called “flagged revisions,” has only been possible in the last few months because of a new extension to the software...

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In Egypt, Wikipedia is more than hobby

iht.com
21-Jul-2008 5 related
        

Not one exception? "Facebook for me is just a way to keep in touch with friends," said Yehia Hassaan, 18, a medical student. Some said they had feared that Facebook would be shut down, but Kareem Mohamed, 20, a student of...

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Ethan Zuckerman: Egypt: Lots of bloggers, fewer wikipedians

harvard.edu
20-Jul-2008
        

My friend Kevin Donovan has an interesting post today, wondering about the size of the Arabic-language wikipedia. As he observes, it’s smaller than the Esperanto wikipedia despite the fact that it’s likely the fifth most spoken...

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