Posted on 05/08/2010 4:28:22 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
The Wikimedia Foundation today announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain high quality print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. The development of the underlying open source software is supported by the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org) and the Commonwealth of Learning (www.col.org), and led by PediaPress.com, a start-up company based in Germany.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/category/wikimania/
We also want to thank all of our sponsors this year. Without them we couldn’t pull events like this together: Telefonica, Terra, Speedy, The Richard Lounsbery Foundation, Answers.com, Kaltura, Wikimedia Deutschland, The Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Open Society Institute, wikiHow, Wikia, and Banco Credicoop. Thank you!
Note the web url here:
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/focus/access/events/wikimania_20080717
Wikimania 2008: The International Wikimedia Conference
Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, and Wikimedia Commons) and for its editors and users to gather, meet each other, exchange ideas, and report on research and projects.
And wikimania 2006:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Bottom of the page the sponsors are thanked. OSI is one of them.
They have weaved an ugly tangled web.
That makes sense; I was wondering why Wiki labeled ‘Patriot Movement’ as a terrorist org. I tried to correct the posting but the wiki overlords wouldn’t let me.
You’re not the first one who’s had the behind the scenes talk group bump corrections in favor of those that fit the template.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452070/posts
You might also want to take a look at their advisory board. Open society is working from the inside.
Okay, all together now: “I can’t believe that old bastard is still alive.”
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