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Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons

By Jolie O'Dell / July 1, 2009 5:58 PM / View Comments

The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia's repository for free, sharable multimedia files. The grant will fund a study of barriers

Wikipedia Has Raised in a Week What Took a Month in 2009

By Mike Melanson / November 19, 2010 10:53 AM / View Comments

The Wikimedia Foundation announced earlier this week that it would need to raise $16 million to keep Wikipedia ad free, double the amount that it raised last year. That sounds

Wikipedia Unveils Probably the Coolest QR Thingy Ever Made

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / September 28, 2011 11:14 AM / View Comments

Wikipedia today introduced a program called QRPedia, a QR code creation service that lets users snap a picture of a QR code and be automatically directed to a linked mobile

Semantic Web Gang: Wikipedia for Data

By Richard MacManus / May 4, 2008 4:04 PM

This month's Semantic Web Gang podcast, syndicated on ReadWriteTalk and featuring RWW's Alex Iskold, is up now. The main topic is Bret Taylor’s idea of a Wikipedia for Data, which

Something's Keeping Wikipedia from Becoming a Platform

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 14, 2011 10:32 AM / View Comments

Creativity, they say, always builds on the past. So too do many wonderful things on the internet. What could be better to build the future on top of than our

Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content

By Jolie O'Dell / May 20, 2009 11:34 PM / View Comments

Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation

Waterbear is Like Scratch, but for JavaScript

By Klint Finley / May 3, 2011 3:45 PM / View Comments

Waterbear is a Scratch-like visual programming language for JavaScript. It was created by Dethe Elza, who gave a presentation on the project today at JSConf in Portland, OR. Waterbear

ReadWriteWeb Expands Silicon Forest Empire - Rick Turoczy Joins Us

By Richard MacManus / October 7, 2008 12:50 AM

Our newest writer started tonight, Rick Turoczy - who many of you will know from his tech blog Silicon Florist. Rick is yet another RWW writer who hails from Portland,

WikiFM - Great Idea, Poor Execution

By Sarah Perez / April 14, 2008 11:58 AM

Recently, a new Wikipedia mashup came on the scene - WikiFM, this one a mashup of Wikipedia and popular music streaming service Last.fm. The mashup lets you listen to Last.fm

Wikipedia Goes Dark, News Orgs Say "I Got This"

By Jon Mitchell / January 18, 2012 10:30 AM / View Comments

Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist, Mozilla, and many other vital websites have gone dark today to protest SOPA and PIPA, the twin online piracy bills Congress is working on. The blackout is

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