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. 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 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 via Wikipedia 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 [...]

Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]