Jure Cuhalev

Wikimania 2008 was a blast. Here are just a few more bits of information that didn’t have a place in other posts.
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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 wiki. The coolest [...]

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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, that runs these specialized wiki’s.
 
Variation of popularity [...]

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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 in your own words. It’s important to attributes quotes and [...]

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Alexandria was once a place of a very ancient library – Ancient Alexandria Library. But it burned down, which was really a shame.
In our minds, libraries are often places with lots of “dusty documents” which are not connected. But thanks to ICT we can go and build new libraries that are fully connected.
Connecting [...]

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Nick Black, Common Enterprise: Building a Business on Free Data, is involved with OpenStreet made and his company Cloudmade, that is trying to figure out if it’s possible to build business on top of it.
He starts with a point – nothing is free. Most free data has a cost, there are costs associated. [...]