Orange and Wikimedia Foundation have just announced an agreement to provide the carrier’s customers with mobile access to Wikipedia at no data usage costs.
This is the first partnership between the two entities, but others may be announced in the future. Under agreement, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundati... |
25 January 2012
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the team currently maintaining and improving Wikipedia, has recently released their five-year strategic plan which, among other things, aims at attracting 1 billion users to its websites.Continuing their declared intention to keep all aspects of Wikimedia as transparent as possible, Ting Ch... |
27 February 2011
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On November 13th, Wikipedia launched its yearly fund-raising campaign by placing a dedicated banner on top of all pages. On the last day of the year, it appears that their target of $16 million has not been reached, being less than $1 million short.In order to gather the aforementioned amount, Jimmy Wales, the found... |
1 January 2011
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Wikipedia is such an integral part of the web that most people don't even give it a second thought anymore. And much like everything else online, the site is completely free and available to anyone. Unlike most other sites, Wikipedia doesn't have advertising, there isn't a Wikipedia Pro, and has no oth... |
17 February 2010
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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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