More and more people are quick to seal the fate of Wikipedia and a couple of studies in the past year are being used as clear evidence that the site is headed for disaster if not in the short term future. Recently, a study by Spanish researcher Felipe Ortega, which found that 49,000 volunteer editors left the site i... |
27 November 2009
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A study conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation and the United Nations University program, MERIT, has shown that, from 175,000 users with valid survey responses, 53,884 have acknowledged contributing to Wikipedia, 87% of them being male responders. Also from the total users that only read Wikipedia articles, 31% of the... |
8 September 2009
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A few weeks ago, Wikipedia managed to amass more than three million articles; this week is Wikimedia Commons' turn to take the glory. A scan of a 1838 Danish newspaper called Kjobenhavnsposten was uploaded by user Saddhiyama to the Commons image repository, thus marking the fifth million file uploaded by a user.... |
3 September 2009
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Wikimedia Foundation has just received a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support its Wikimedia Commons project. The money will go into research, to find the reasons keeping some users from participating, as well as into redesigning the upload process.“The global community that is building Wikimedia C... |
3 July 2009
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The Wikimedia Foundation and the wireless carrier Orange have announced a deal through which the online encyclopedia Wikipedia will be offered to mobile phone users as a standalone product, but also integrated into the operator's existing content services. According to the two, Wikipedia will come initially to O... |
24 April 2009
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AskMeNow announced a preliminary agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the well-known online encyclopedia Wikipedia, to introduce a natural language desktop search and mobile search of Wikipedia. The beta site for the desktop search will be developed by AskMeNow's natural la... |
1 June 2007
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