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A dispute over Wikipedia’s use of images from the Web site of a British art gallery is heating up as the online encyclopedia accuses the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of violating its public service objective.But the gallery claims it needs to recover the $1.6 million (£1m) cost of its digitization program, and says Wikipedia has distorted its position.The NPG is now threatening legal action ...
Although video has been on Wikipedia in a limited way for the past two years, it is poised to take-off with the recent introduction of Firefox 3.5 along with other imminent developments.
Raul654 writes "Last week, it was reported that the UK's National Portrait Gallery had threatened a lawsuit against an American Wikipedian for uploading pictures from the NPG's website to Wikipedia. The uploaded pictures are clearly in the public domain in the United States. (In the US, copies of public domain works are also in the public domain. UK law on the matter is unclear.) Since then, ...
According to interview with its video guru, the Web encyclopedia's revamped player is coming very soon. But its format is causing a stir in the open-source community.
The two organizations have begun a collaboration they hope will improve health information online
In a Beet.tv interview posted yesterday , Wikimedia deputy director Erik Moller gave a few clues as to the Foundation's train of thought when it comes to video editing and distribution. In the interview clips, included below, Moller hints at the site's upcoming suite of editing tools and sharing options. He compares video to text and image content, subtextually posing the question: If other ...
The social media terrorists among Adobe's user community do not get it. This man Aral Balkan started a campaign against SYS-CON Media by contacting foreign technology media outlets, by turning his personal blog into a social media cihad, and even by entering false descriptions into Wikipedia. This man executed a deliberate campaign against SYS-CON with his Twitter followers assisting him in his ...
Wikipedia sucks. Why do I say this? Obviously I’ve just had yet another bad experience with the self-professed Gods who “manage” the encyclopaedia. But before I bore you with the Data as a Service controversy (ooh, that sounds exciting, doesn’t it!?), let’s take a look at just why Wikipedia sucks quite so badly. A Prerequisite to being [...] read more
From one of the creators of Wikipedia comes a new resource for students and educators: A web-based directory of videos designed to be searchable, reliable, and conductive to better learning for all. According to executive director Larry Sanger 's blog , WatchKnow is "deliberately flying under the radar now, because we want to make a big first impression -- launch should be early this fall... I ...
Tomato season is almost upon us, so turn off your air conditioner, lay off the ice cream and cool off the healthy way with delicious gazpacho. From the all-knowing Wikipedia : "Gazpacho is a cold Spanish tomato-based raw vegetable soup, originating in the southern region of Andalucía. Gazpacho is widely consumed throughout Spain, neighboring Portugal (where it is known as gaspacho) and parts of ...
The National Portrait Gallery has set off a legal fight against Wikipedia.
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- The first thing I did after finishing Chris Anderson ’s “ Free: The Future of a Radical Price ” was pull out my checkbook and calculate how much I’ve been squandering in the online world.
On July 16, the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland will tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_training_for_us_health_department.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; welcome a handful of Wikimedia Foundation's staff and volunteers. Some of the nation's top health, science, and medical minds will take a one day course on the mechanics and ...
GigsVT writes "Editors on Wikipedia are engaged in an epic battle over a few piece of paper smeared with ink. The 10 inkblot images that form the classic Rorschach test have fallen into the public domain, and so including them on Wikipedia would seem to be a simple choice. However, some editors have cited the American Psychological Association's statement that exposure of the images to the ...
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a large company taking a preliminary look at developing an honest-to-goodness wiki. We have tried to launch a company-wide wiki before, but with little success. The technical domains of each part of the company are different, thus each article needs a good deal of background to be useful. Of course, due the proprietary nature of our work we cannot share our ...
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