Wikimania is about to start, but here, the ever-topical Onion folk are poking fun at Wikipedia.
What is there to say when “America’s finest news source” casts aspersions on the world’s newest encyclopedia with the headline Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence?
Extra: watch out for Meredith Farkas‘ panel presentation on wikis and enabling library knowledgebases. [...]
Posted August 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: funny, The Onion, wikimania, wikipedia. 2 Comments.
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is working on his keynote for the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt. Ross Mayfield at Many2Many posted a preview and gives some background. What should we expect? Wales’ speech touches on ten things necessary for Free Culture:
Free the Encyclopedia!
Free the Dictionary!
Free the Curriculum!
Free the [...]
Posted August 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: free, free culture, jimmy wales, wikimania, wikimedia, wikimedia foundation, wikipedia. 2 Comments.
