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354: 257: 208: 242: 369: 426: 295:, he described his work: "I try to find articles dedicated to topics covering the Internet in Sweden. I put them on an importance scale and assess for quality". He outlined the project's goals, which include improving the content quality in this significant area, and inspiring "more people to get involved in Knowledge and make contacts between experts in the field and Knowledge editors". The project is believed to be the first to employ someone to specifically edit the Swedish Knowledge, although other Wikipedias have seen such externally funded projects before (see, for example, 223: 642: 117: 107: 90: 33: 127: 87: 137: 97: 353: 110: 336: 130: 702: 100: 140: 559:, from the English Knowledge, was added as an "alternate, who will serve as a non-voting advisor to the commission this year, and then remain on for another full term", a new concept that is expected to facilitate "knowledge transfer" to the next generation of Commission members. 453:(US National Archives and Records Administration) in Washington DC. Beginning in May, Dominic will be working with the archives to chart out a course of projects and cooperative ventures that will help make the records more publicly accessible. 772:
In any case the result is still noteworthy. The popularity of most other top linked domains seems to be at least partly due to their use in templates or by bots (for example, the sixth most linked domain, AboutUs, is used in each of COIbot's
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in late 2006, Picture of the Year has become a much-loved tradition throughout Wikimedia projects. In 2010, there were 784 new featured pictures, compared with 890 in 2009, and 501 in 2008.
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at Wikimedia Commons began the first round of voting, which will last until 4 May at 11:59PM UTC. All editors with at least 200 edits before 1 January 2011 are eligible to vote.
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as they feel able to judge. The final round of voting will begin in the third week of May, once all of the votes from the previous round have been tallied and confirmed.
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of the various "Wikipedian in residence" projects that have sprung up around the world since his own residenceship at the British Museum initiated the concept last year.
495:, Indian Wikipedian Shiju Alex summarized the results of the "Malayalam Loves Wikimedia" project, which during April contributed around 2155 free images related to the 686: 676: 276: 790: 778: 691: 120: 169: 629: 620: 590: 551:. The Commission is tasked with investigating complaints about violations of the WMF's privacy policy, in particular concerning the use of the CheckUser tool. 503:, aiming "to create more awareness about copyleft-licensed images, wikimedia commons, and to attract more Malayalam speaking people to the wikimedia movement". 415:) region". The search for a location has been going on since around last August, and has at times received considerable public attention in India (see e.g. 759: 671: 659: 420: 150: 193: 804: 222: 653: 52: 41: 430: 283:
articles about the Internet in Sweden. Funded by the Internet Infrastructure Foundation, the operator of Swedish country-code top-level domain
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the names of new board members elected at the WikiConference on April 16, and summarized results of the board's first meeting.
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Picture of the Year voting begins; Internet culture covered in Sweden and consulted in Russia; brief news
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story — might've been worth mentioning that in the main namespace, Brittanica is only #133, before
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Picture of the Year is a contest that celebrates the best content that has gone through Commons'
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Voters may vote for as many images as they like, and are encouraged to vote in as many of the
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list of "Top 1000 most linked domains from external links in English Knowledge pages"
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Russian president meets with Internet community representatives, including Wikimedia
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to set up the Wikimedia Foundation's "India Programs" office "in New Delhi (or the
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NARA hosted an event celebrating Knowledge's tenth anniversary in January (
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I agree it is worth knowing, but the main namespace list was added to
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only shortly before I wrote this - should have refreshed the page.
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The Simple English Knowledge reached 70,000 articles on April 25.
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First state-funded Knowledge project concludes after three years
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The Malagasy Knowledge has reached 5,000 articles on April 28.
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The Neapolitan Knowledge reached 15,000 articles on April 29.
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and representatives of the Russian internet community
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The French Wikisource has reached 60,000 text units.
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