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Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 2, 2009 7:08 PM / 7 Comments

What is that mountain you're driving past? Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its

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Wikimedia CTO Departs for Open-Source Microblogging Startup
Written by Jolie O'Dell / September 28, 2009 6:35 PM / 2 Comments

Brion Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia and lead developer for Wikipedia and MediaWiki, announced today that he's leaving the

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Warcraft and Twilight Fans Make Wikia Profitable
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 8, 2009 9:00 PM / 5 Comments

According to this year's Comscore stats, consumer publishing platform Wikia has surpassed DIY tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/warcraft_and_twilight_fans_make_wikia_profitable.php'; tweetmeme_source =

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Wikipedia Plans to Use Color Codes to Highlight Untrustworthy Text
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 31, 2009 8:49 AM / 4 Comments

Not sure how trustworthy those Wikipedia articles really are? A few months from now, the addition of WikiTrust

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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

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How To: Annotate Images from Wikipedia
Written by Steven Walling / August 29, 2009 1:00 PM / 3 Comments

You may not know it, but most of the images in Wikipedia are actually hosted on its sister

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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

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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

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Wikipedia Lauches Official iPhone App
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 18, 2009 11:41 AM / 9 Comments

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the popular Wikipedia, just released its first official iPhone application for

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Google Books Offers Creative Commons Licensing
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 13, 2009 5:31 PM / 5 Comments

Earlier this morning Google Books announced a program where rights owners would be given the tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_books_offers_creative_commons_licensing.php';

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Wikipedia's Inkblots: Normality in Tech and Medicine
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 29, 2009 6:56 PM / 3 Comments

Wikipedia is aflutter with angry psychologists demanding that the community take down reproductions of 10 original Rorschach inkblot

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Microsoft Page Hunt Game to Improve Search?
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 28, 2009 9:57 AM / 1 Comments

Microsoft just launched Page Hunt, a game that presents web pages to players and asks that they guess

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Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 21, 2009 9:47 AM / 3 Comments

Wikipedia and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales has just joined the advisory board of CK-12 Foundation - a nonprofit

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Open Source and Social Media: Community, Collaboration, Freedom
Written by Ravit Lichtenberg from Ustrategy.com / July 20, 2009 6:00 AM / 12 Comments

To most people, the term "open source" immediately conjures an image of two geeks sitting in a dark

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Video Goes Open Source on Wikipedia: New Format, New Player, New Editing/Sharing Tools
Written by Jolie O'Dell / July 18, 2009 1:15 PM / 37 Comments

In a Beet.tv interview posted yesterday, Wikimedia deputy director Erik Moller gave a few clues as to the

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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';

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Beta No More: Wikipedia Mobile Officially Launches with Important Changes for Editors
Written by Jolie O'Dell / July 5, 2009 1:17 PM / 10 Comments

Although Wikipedia's mobile site has been in various stages of development for quite some time, Wikimedia's Lead Mobile

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Faviki's Social Bookmarking Tool Makes Semantic Tagging Even Easier
Written by Sarah Perez / July 2, 2009 6:04 AM / 11 Comments

When we first looked at Faviki, a social bookmarking application which made its debut last year, we were

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Wikipedia Getting Video within Months
Written by Sarah Perez / June 19, 2009 5:39 AM / 4 Comments

Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopedia used worldwide, will be adding video to their online repository in a matter

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Google News May Add Wikipedia as a Source
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 9, 2009 2:05 PM / 11 Comments

Some users are being shown links to Wikipedia articles about current events clustered in the lists of sources

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