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430: 117: 107: 33: 127: 87: 137: 97: 90: 110: 536: 505: 130: 100: 140: 256:, the deal will include co-branded content, including the "development of mobile & TV applications using knowledge from Wikimedia’s projects", and access to Knowledge on mobile phones. 73: 484: 67: 489: 474: 459: 283: 494: 351: 120: 221:, a drive to increase Commons photographs of British museum content, officially began on 31 January. The month-long competition and series of events began at the 479: 454: 417: 408: 261: 206: 203:, Cooper will be the only female CTO of a top-10 website. Cooper, who starts on 4 February, fills the gap left by the departure of long-time CTO Brion Vibber ( 469: 447: 552: 310:
for professional usability and user experience studies of the file upload process on Wikimedia projects. The deadline for proposals is 10 February.
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This is the second deal with a large multinational phone company that Wikimedia has formed, following last year's deal with Orange Telecom (
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by Sue Gardner. Cooper has a long history of involvement with open-source projects, leading open source projects at
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the multimedia usability team. Additionally, an update on the multimedia usability project was posted to the
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is 8 February. Bidding cities then have until 29 March to provide their bid information (venue, team, etc.)
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An office hours to discuss the project will be held on IRC on 4 February, from 16:00 to 17:00 UTC; see the
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in London and will continue across the United Kingdom throughout February according to the official
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is scheduled for 13–14 February in Washington, D.C.; the conference will have a focus on global
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has been hired as the Wikimedia Foundation's new Chief Technical Officer (CTO), according to an
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New CTO, Britain Loves Knowledge, Telefónica partnership, Multimedia and more
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script to the toolserver. It plots related articles with coordinates onto
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developed by the various strategy project task forces have been posted. (
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Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, posted her
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The announcement was covered by tech news outlets, including
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Two Knowledge-related academic conferences are coming up:
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to include German, Spanish, French and Czech Wikipedias.
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on birth and death trends in Knowledge biographies,
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