MaisonBisson.com » wikimania http://maisonbisson.com A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 en hourly 1 The Onion Greets Wikimania http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11401/the-onion-greets-wikimania/ http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11401/the-onion-greets-wikimania/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:02:17 +0000 Casey Bisson http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11401/

The Onion greets WikiMania

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. I should have thought of this in the context of Ryan Eby’s question about librarians going to non-library conferences.

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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 Music!
  • Free the Art!
  • Free the File Formats!
  • Free the Maps!
  • Free the Product Identifiers!
  • Free the TV Listings!
  • Free the Communities!

Mayfield offers more description of each item, go read it.

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