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How To: Annotate Images from Wikipedia
Written by Steven Walling / August 29, 2009 1:00 PM / 2 Comments

You may not know it, but most of the images in Wikipedia are actually hosted on its sister project, Wikimedia Commons. If you find a favorite image on the encyclopedia

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Wikipedia's Parent Org Gets $2 Million Grant From eBay Founder
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 25, 2009 12:56 PM / 3 Comments

The Omidyar Network, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's philanthropic and investment organization, announced today that it will give the Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia, a $2 million grant over the

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Wikipedians to Vote on Site-Wide Creative Commons
Written by Phil Glockner / April 13, 2009 3:38 PM / 8 Comments

The Creative Commons Blog today announced that the Wikipedia community is holding a vote to move to using Creative Commons for its primary content license. The license being discussed is

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Wikipedia Comes to the iPhone with Wikipanion
Written by Corvida / August 25, 2008 7:39 PM / 15 Comments

A new school year is about to start and students nationwide will be clamoring for ways to keep up with their school work. With many schools starting to offer free

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Confused About Wikipedia's Flagged Revisions? What's Really Happening
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 26, 2009 11:13 AM / 7 Comments

Over the last few days, we have read a lot about how Wikipedia's new 'flagged revision' policy will radically change how entries about living persons will be maintained. Even mainstream

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Knols Project: Google Experimenting With User Generated Encyclopedic Pages
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 13, 2007 7:05 PM / 38 Comments

The official Google blog has a post tonight about a new project that's in closed, private beta. The program is called Knols, or "units of knowledge." Knols participants will write

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AltSearchEngines at the Search Marketing Expo: Social Media
Written by Josh Catone / October 17, 2007 3:47 PM / 3 Comments

For the past two days, AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight has been attending the Search Marketing Expo: Social Media conference in New York City. He's been live blogging every session from

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Wikipedia Training for US Health Department
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 14, 2009 7:12 PM / 4 Comments

On July 16, the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland will tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_training_for_us_health_department.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; welcome a handful of Wikimedia Foundation's staff and volunteers.

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Wikirage: The Wikipedia Zeitgeist
Written by Josh Catone / August 31, 2007 9:12 AM / 6 Comments

At the beginning of this month, Andrew Pipes wrote about Yahoo! Buzz and Google Trends, two search engine zeitgeist tools that attempt to show what topics are popular based on

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Wikipedia's Most Visited Pages: Beatles, Jacko, YouTube
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 30, 2009 7:43 PM / 4 Comments

Prior to 2001, gilded hard cover encyclopedias were cracked to fact check everything from raptor names to State capitals. Today the world's most popular English encyclopedia is more often used

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