The nonprofit group that runs online encyclopedia Wikipedia said Friday that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board.
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Craigslist Founder Joins Wikimedia
Wikipedia Signs Revenue-Sharing Deal with Mobile Operator Orange
The Wikimedia Foundation has signed its first major corporate partnership deal with European mobile operator Orange. Under the agreement, Orange customers in France, Span, Poland, and the UK will get co-branded access to Wikimedia Foundation content, including a specific Wikipedia channel and both mobile and Web-based widgets to pull Wikipedia content to their mobile devices or Web pages. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Orange will be sharing some revenue with the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation currently gets most of its operating capital from user donations.
Wikipedia Making It Easier For Editors
It seems as if almost everyone has used Wikipedia as a reference tool, and many of us might have found content on there we wanted to change. Submitting an edit to an entry might become easier soon, thanks to an $890,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the online encyclopedia, from the Stanton Foundation.
In a statement, Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said:
"Wikipedia attracts writers who have a moderate-to-high level of technical understanding, but it excludes lots of smart, knowledgeable people who are less tech-centric. One of our key priorities is to attract those people and persuade them to help write and edit the encyclopedia."
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