SOPA/Blackoutpage. Thank you. The Wikipedia blackout is over — and you have spoken. More than 162 million people saw our message asking if you could imagine a world without free knowledge. You said no. You shut down Congress’s switchboards. You melted their servers. For us, this is not about money. Our mission is to empower and engage people to document the sum of all human knowledge, and to make it available to all humanity, in perpetuity. SOPA and PIPA are not dead: they are waiting in the shadows. We’re turning the lights back on. Qwiki: Coming Soon. LocalWiki - bring collaborative local media to every community by Philip Neustrom. So much of the unique knowledge and experiences we acquire through years of living in a community gets spread only by word of mouth, or worse—just stays “locked up” in our heads. But this is great stuff, valuable expert knowledge that can benefit everyone!
After all, when it comes to the communities where we live, we are all experts. The LocalWiki project is an ambitious effort to create community-owned, living information repositories that will provide much-needed context behind the people, places, and events that shape our communities. And we have already proven it can work and provide tremendous benefits to a community. In 2004 we started the Davis Wiki, an experimental project to collect and share interesting information about the town of Davis, California, that soon became the world's largest and most vibrant community wiki. With your help, we want to help as many communities as possible realize the full potential of such an amazing information resource. Our plan: Who we are: OpenStreetMap. Welcome to PublicEarth - PublicEarth. The free encyclopedia.
50 more of Wikipedia’s most interesting articles « Copybot - Flo. The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia post on this blog has had heaps of interest. So I thought it was about time I posted another one. This time, the list’s a lot less war-focused. I particularly like number 42, though the Wikipedia article doesn’t make it very clear that the graffiti appeared a multitude of times in different places and the writer has never been identified.
Thanks again to Ray Cadaster for all his hard work putting the lists together. Like this: Like Loading... Related The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia Deep in the bowels of the internet, I came across an exhaustive list of interesting Wikipedia articles by Ray Cadaster. In "Interesting" Bauballs: battle of the balls For as long as anyone can remember, Christmas has happened every year. In "Advertising" Oxford Circus in fancy dress for The Great Gatsby Tube and train station 'wraps' have enormous potential for creative applications, and it's great to see one actually come to life.