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Information Today
May 13, 2010 |
Wikimedia Foundation Launches Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia, announced a new project designed to improve the quality of public policy-related articles on Wikipedia.   |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2012
Christina Chaey |
4 Ways The New Wikidata Will Improve Wikipedia The Wikimedia Foundation completes its first phase of development for Wikidata in August. The database will help streamline Wikipedia content by focusing on facts and figures, cutting out subjectivity, and increasing transparency. |
Information Today
December 17, 2007 |
Wikis Go Printable The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 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. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Karen Valby |
Whatever Happened to Jimmy Wales? The Wikipedia founder spends his days on the road, spreading the gospel of the openly editable encyclopedia -- sometimes charging top dollar. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Think Wikipedia Is Sexist? They Want To Pay You To Help Change That A United Nations University study from 2010 found that only 13% of Wikipedia's editors are female, while other surveys have yielded an even lower number. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
It's On: Wikimedia Sues The NSA The Wikimedia Foundation, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, is suing the U.S. National Security Agency in a bid to challenge mass surveillance of Internet communications, Reuters reports. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2012
Anders Bylund |
10 Things I Think About the Wikipedia Blackout Wikipedia fights fire with fire. |
Fast Company
March 15, 2007 |
The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google Wikipedia depends on the search results from Google to succeed. But, how? |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2008
Tim Beyers |
A Rebel Begs for a Bailout Wikipedia's founder begs for donations to keep the encyclopedic Web site advertisement-free. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Wikipedia Calls Security The online encyclopedia steps takes greater precautions following a recent controversy. Judging by some Internet trends, that step can't come too soon. |
AFP eWire
July 2, 2007 |
Case Foundation Seeks Public Input on Grant Ideas The Washington, D.C.-based Case Foundation is calling for the public to submit ideas on how to improve communities and will be awarding grants up to $35,000 for the best proposals. |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2005
Cade Metz |
Your Request Is Granted We go inside the soup-to-nuts Web site for running charitable foundations online. |
AFP eWire
April 12, 2004 |
U.S. Foundation Giving Declines Slightly in 2003 Grantmaking foundations in the United States gave slightly less in 2003 campared to the previous year. |
AFP eWire
April 9, 2007 |
Foundation Giving Rises to $40 Million Foundation giving in the United States grew to $40.7 billion in 2006, an 11.7% increase from the previous year, according to a new study. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Mar/Apr 2006
Rayna Aylward |
Readying the Response A corporate grantmaker describes her organization's effort to be better prepared to marshal resources when the next disaster strikes. |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
AFP eWire
April 20, 2010 |
2009 Saw Record Decline in Foundation Giving The recent economic crisis caused the more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations in the United States to cut their 2009 giving by an estimated 8.4 percent -- by far the largest decline ever tracked by the Foundation Center. |
AFP eWire
April 24, 2006 |
Slow, Steady Foundation Growth Seen in 2005, Expected in 2006 A new report shows steady, but unremarkable growth for the foundation sector in 2005 and forecasts much of the same for 2006. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
The Search Is On at Wikipedia The search giants have a new -- and important -- rival looming on the competitive landscape. For anybody invested in companies that seek to profit off Internet search, Wikiasari will be a tremendously important development to watch. |
Inc.
December 2006
Daniel Akst |
Foundations R Us You can give it away as smartly as you made it. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Nov/Dec 2005
Simone & Venkat |
Planning for Consistency Corporate grantmakers can achieve stability through creating endowments, quasi-endowments and reserves. Here's how. |
Information Today
December 18, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Censorship and Wikipedia--An Instructive Tale What if, one fine morning, you went to your favorite Wikipedia page only to see a "404 page not found" error message? |
InternetNews
January 7, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Wikia Search Launches With Google in Its Sights Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes Wikia's new community-powered search engine will shuffle the leader board. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Why Wikipedia Will Win Save for the core search engine that launched the business, Google has a checkered history when it comes to displacing incumbents in the industries it enters. Will it be the same for Knol, Google's answer to Wikipedia? |
InternetNews
December 7, 2005
Erin Joyce |
Wikipedia And The Truth Troops The community-driven, Internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia, needs to do more than check anonymous editors at the site's door. |
Chemistry World
November 26, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Gates Foundation champions open access The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Washington, US, has adopted a new policy that requires free, unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research that the foundation funds |
AFP eWire
May 19, 2008 |
Advice to Grant Seekers: Never Believe Your Own PR Grant seekers should remember to bring their data and a level head -- not a sales pitch -- when they approach a foundation for grant money. |
Financial Advisor
November 2007
Karen DeMasters |
Fanning The Flames The Foundation for Financial Planning has been a bucket brigade that gets planners in touch with those in need -- not just of money, but advice. |
Information Today
October 30, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Citizendium: A Kinder, Truer Wikipedia? Over the last year, Wikipedia online encyclopedia has faced an international furor over its reliability and accuracy. |
Searcher
March 2006
Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable? |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Karen Valby |
Wikipedia's Librarian to the World Wikipedia director Sue Gardner has transformed the site's broken business into a growing hub with global ambitions. Can a fast-talking iconoclast out-think silicon valley's gurus? |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Rival Whacks at Wikipedia Can Citizendium take Wikipedia down a few notches just when the Wiki universe looks to expand? |
AFP eWire
July 31, 2006 |
California Community Foundations Merge, Form Fifth Largest in the United States Community Foundation Silicon Valley and the Peninsula Community Foundation are expected to merge at the beginning of 2007, creating the fifth-largest community foundation in the United States. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2011 |
Jimmy Wales's Wikipedia Balancing Act The Wikipedia founder speaks on empowering his army of volunteers while still maintaining control of the site -- and not selling out. |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Mapping Places in Wikipedia Wikipedia is a high quality online source of information, but does not do a good job displaying images or maps. Placeopedia attempts to fill that gap by mapping Wikipedia location entries on Google maps. |
PC Magazine
May 2, 2007
Alison Lapp |
Wikipedia's Opponent Wikipedia vet Larry Sanger launches Citizendium, an online encyclopedia with tougher oversight. |
Reason
June 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Wikipedia and Beyond Wikipedia was born as an experiment in aggregating information. But the reason it works isn't that the world was clamoring for a new kind of encyclopedia. It took off because of the robust, self-policing community it created. Despite its critics, it is transforming our everyday lives. |
Information Today
July 16, 2015 |
EBSCO Health Gives Wikipedia Access to Its Clinical Reference Solution Up to 300 Wikipedia editors who meet the qualifications set out by this partnership will get free accounts for DynaMed Plus. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
John C. Dvorak |
Why Wikipedia Just Gets Better You don't think I'm here as a Wikipedia booster without some deeper commentary, do you? There has to be something wrong with it, since the idea is utopian, and utopian ideas are bound to fail in the long term. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Peer Review The collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has millions of entries in hundreds of languages. |
Search Engine Watch
March 18, 2011
Rob Chant |
How Small Businesses Can Get a Link from Wikipedia If you want a link from Wikipedia, it will be a hard process. Here's a four-step strategy that will potentially get you that link. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Mar/Apr 2006 |
Communications Par Excellence Here are the Council on Foundations' Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications program, which recognizes and encourages effective communications by foundations and corporate giving programs: Skoll Foundation... etc. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2008
Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Mar/Apr 2005 |
Celebrating Strategic Communications Here are the winners of the Council on Foundations' Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications. The awards recognize and encourage effective communications by foundations and corporate giving programs. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 23, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) Harvard Business School professors conduct a case study on how online cultures are made and maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2008
William Badke |
What to Do With Wikipedia Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger and more commanding every day. |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
Just the Facts, Please While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of the most comprehensive online search resources for quick, free and reliable ready reference information. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 10, 2014
Peter Houston |
Fixing Wikipedia Will Pharma join a growing effort to make the world's leading online health information resource more relevant to providers and safer for patients? |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Searches and shopping set the stage for a fun walk down Wall Street this past week: Searching for money that was left on the table... Happy holidays, dot gone... |
Information Today
January 5, 2016 |
Wikipedia Celebrates Its 15th Birthday With Librarian-Centric Campaign The Wikipedia Library team invites librarians to help Wikipedia celebrate its 15th birthday on Jan. 15, 2016, by adding one reference to any Wikipedia article. |
