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Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 20, 2009 11:34 PM / 5 Comments

Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a

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Duck Duck Go: Silly Name, Interesting Search Engine
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 30, 2009 11:03 AM / 6 Comments

The search engine market is obviously dominated by a small number of big players, but that doesn't mean

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Jimmy Wales: Social Web Marketing - Good for Some, Not for All
Written by Lidija Davis / April 21, 2009 6:12 PM / 11 Comments

According to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, there are too many Indians and not enough Chiefs in 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

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Could Wikipedia's Future Be as a Development Platform?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 23, 2009 1:21 PM / 15 Comments

Content creation at Wikipedia is slowing down. The already small number of active regular editors is on the

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Intellipedia: Intelligence Agencies' Wiki Suffers Midlife Crisis
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 19, 2009 11:22 AM / 6 Comments

Did you know that the U.S. intelligence agencies use a wiki to share information? The Intellipedia project was

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Why Wikipedia's Policy to Blacklist Blogs is Outdated and Wrong
Written by Richard MacManus / February 13, 2009 1:06 PM / 78 Comments

This week we received an email from a reader telling us that he'd tried to add a link

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Wikipedia Co-Founder Calls for Major New Moderation Policy
Written by Lidija Davis / January 24, 2009 10:38 AM / 11 Comments

Hot on the heels of Encyclopedia Britannica's announcement that it is moving to a more open editing system,

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Britannica Wants to Be More Like Wikipedia: Lets Users Contribute
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 22, 2009 9:49 AM / 7 Comments

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica is about to open ups its articles to

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Wikipedia Celebrates 8th Birthday With New Tech for the Future
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 15, 2009 9:42 AM / 5 Comments

Few websites have made a bigger impact on the world than Wikipedia has and today the organization is

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$6.2 Million: Wikipedia Reaches Fundraising Goal for 2008
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 2, 2009 10:18 AM / 13 Comments

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the immensely popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia, just announced that it has

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Scientific Journal to Authors: Publish in Wikipedia or Perish
Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 18, 2008 4:00 PM / 14 Comments

Every day, hundreds of articles appear in academic journals and very little of this information is available to

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Wikipedia Finally Releases Official Mobile Site
Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 15, 2008 10:45 AM / 5 Comments

While the Wikipedia is one of the most popular destinations on the Internet, it surprisingly lacked an official

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UK ISPs Filtering Access to Wikipedia
Written by Lidija Davis / December 7, 2008 9:26 AM / 8 Comments

ZDNet is reporting that six British ISPs are filtering access to Wikipedia as a result of the site

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Wikipedia Gets Grant to Help First-Time Authors
Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 3, 2008 10:09 AM / 7 Comments

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the immensely popular Wikipedia, just announced a new project that is

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German Wikipedia Back Online After Controversial Shutdown
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2008 10:35 AM / 6 Comments

After it had been unavailable in Germany for more than two days, the Wikipedia's German portal is finally

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Gritty Entrepreneurs: Jigsaw, a Profitable Web 2.0 Venture
Written by Bernard Lunn / September 29, 2008 2:40 PM / 8 Comments

To kick off our new Gritty Entrepreneurs interview series, at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York we

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Printed Wikipedia Now Available - But Why?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 17, 2008 9:30 AM / 9 Comments

Earlier this year, we reported about a contentious debate among Wikipedia authors about whether writers should be paid

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MySpace Partners With RIM To Create New MySpace App For Blackberry
Written by Sarah Perez / September 11, 2008 10:55 AM / 1 Comments

Today, MySpace announced a global partnership with Research in Motion (RIM), makers of Blackberry smartphones. The two companies

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MixMatchMusic Helps Indie Artists Get Paid
Written by Sarah Perez / September 11, 2008 9:36 AM

MixMatchMusic is a new music community whose goal is to cater to the long tail of content creators.

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