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Wikimania 2008 was a blast. Here are just a few more bits of information that didn’t have a place in other posts. Image via Wikipedia Cool projects PediaPress is a project that allows you to turn Wikipedia pages into actual books. They have an open-source MediaWiki extension, so you can run this on your own […]
Image via Wikipedia What is Wikimedia Commons:  Central resource for Wikimedia Wiki – anyone can edit, be bold, etc. Media – it’s not text, it’s especially images Multilingual – all the languages inside the single wiki Free Content – all the files are availalbe under Free Licenses Community – lots of people who consider […]
Image by fataetoile /Cinzia via Flickr What is political participation: Â Collaborate for a common constructive objective Practice and defend freedom of speech Freely meet and engage with people and causes Discuss in order to obtain census Engage in non-economic initiatives Consume with responsibility Watch the watchers [and much more..] Â Voting from time to […]
Image by Capture Queen â„¢ via Flickr Wikipedia, 10million articles and lots of articles. Isn’t that enough, so why would we need other wiki’s?  Wikipedia is not a lot of heap of things – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT  So what do you do with these things?  Wikimedia has educational goal. There is another company Wikia, […]
Image via Wikipedia Wikinews is:  Easy A type of document you see every day Goal of NPOV and professionalism Balance through diversity The option to do news briefs  Writing your first articles First start with a synthesis article. You gather multiple independent sources and read them, then use this to write the story […]
Image by carf via Flickr Is content creation a problem at all? Countries in the emerging EMEA region have incredible growth and it’s just going to keep expanding.  Global content creation: Ton to 25% of the web is new each time we index. 60 billion emails are sent per day. Every day around 120.000 […]
— conferences, ideas
Image by skyfaller via Flickr Traditional approaches to solving global problems: Â Treaties and conventions (Kyoto) Intergovernmental conferences (World Summit on the Information Society) Global multilateral institutions (World bank) Â At the moment, traditional approaches to solving complex world problems, are incapable. Â We new solutions, new approaches and new forum to solve global challenges. […]