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In English Not only do we have to locate a protected area. The detective work begins when we try hard to find a specific plant species that is supposed to be at full bloom… In mid-2011, members of Czech WikiProject Protected Areas (a group of Wikipedians interested in environmentalism) were thinking: there are a lot of protected areas scattered all around the Czech Republic, and yet, few of them had been photographically documented for Wikimedia Commons, the image database for the Wikimedia projects. As a result of this, we sought a grant in July 2011 to support the Wikimedian photographers.
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Português Voluntários do movimento Wikimedia e Wikimedia Foundation organizam primeiro mutirão no Brasil para e com as mulheres Depois de conhecer a estrutura mínima necessária para criar um verbete em poucos passos, as (e os) participantes do encontro aprimoraram verbetes relativos ao feminismo, em comemoração ao Dia Internacional da Mulher
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In English Catalan Wikipedia is especially active with GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) projects, but beginning in summer 2012, we started developing “ Viquimodernisme “, an unprecedented wikiproject in Catalonia . For the first time, a research group on contemporary design and art history — Universitat de Barcelona’s GRACMON — and around 100 art history students at the same university have made a combined effort to improve Catalan Wikipedia’s content related to their area of expertise, Catalan modernism. “El drac”, Park Güell’s (Barcelona) iconic mosaic salamander
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Yesterday we flipped a switch : editors can now use Lua , an innovative programming language, to generate sections of wiki pages on all our sites. We’d like to talk about what this means for the open source community at large, for Wikimedians, and for our future. Why we did this In the old wikitext templating system, this is part of Template:Citation/core. Any Wikipedia article citing a source will cause our CPUs to run through this instructionset.Reviews
One of our favorite iDevice accessory brands, Power Support , has introduced several new high quality collections of iPhone 4 cases. You are probably familiar with Power Support because they are the screen protector of choice carried on Apple.com and in Apple retail stores but they also make several other noteworthy iDevice accessories. Today, we are going to be reviewing one iPhone 4 case from the “ Designer ” collection and one from the “ Private Reserve ” collection. Both cases are considered “Air jackets,” and are physically the same.
<img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-18336" title="MacFlux Deal on StackSocial" src="http://9to5toys.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/macfluxbox.png?w=107&h=130" alt="" width="107" height="130" /> StackSocial has MacFlux on sale for 65% off . Normally the software costs $100 and starting today it’s $35.
Software
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-265816" alt="canon-eos-sl1-400px" src="http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/canon-eos-sl1-400px.jpg?w=704" /> Canon, the Japanese company behind all-things imaging and optical, unveiled a bevy of new cameras on Thursday. Canon notably manufactures compact digital cameras, as well as film SLR and digital SLR cameras, and now it has bulked its impressive lineup with the new EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera, EOS Rebel T5i Digital SLR, and PowerShot SX280 HS Digital Camera. The Rebel SL1 is the most noteworthy addition.
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<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-44533" title="Learn to Design Bundle" alt="" src="http://9to5toys.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/learndtodesign9to5.jpg?w=704" /> Have you ever had the desire to design ANYTHING digitally ? Here’s your chance!
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<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-59398" alt="Screen Shot 2013-03-26 at 5.36.26 PM" src="http://9to5toys.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-shot-2013-03-26-at-5-36-26-pm.png?w=704" /> Act fast, eBay has just launched several hot Apple deals , including: iPhone 5 (Factory unlocked) 16GB $625 (Reg. $650) iPad mini 16GB WiFi $319 (Reg. $329) UPDATE : You can grab an iPad mini (black) for $300 iPad 4th Gen. w/ Retina display 16GB WiFi $469 (Reg. $500)
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<img class="aligncenter wp-image-56632" alt="Screen Shot 2013-03-04 at 7.40.32 AM" src="http://9to5toys.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-shot-2013-03-04-at-7-40-32-am.png?w=524&h=311" width="524" height="311" /> eBay is offering the iconic Harman Kardon 2.1 Channel Sound Sticks 3AM 3 piece Speakers and Subwoofer System for only $99 with free shipping .
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<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-266459" alt="flask1" src="http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/flask1.jpg?w=655&h=655" width="655" height="655" /> Most technologies have changed beyond all recognition in the last 10 to 20 years. Compare a smartphone from 10 years ago with the latest iPhone, and the difference is night and day. Laptops, TVs, cameras … pretty much any technology you can name has transformed almost beyond recognition. But there’s one technology whose pace of development seems truly glacial: batteries.Apps
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-266012" alt="large_upload" src="http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/large_upload.jpg?w=704" /> Twitterrific 5 , the newest version of the Iconfactory’s wildly popular Twitter client, got a big update today. For the first time since its original release, Twitterrific finally supports native push notifications for new mentions, direct messages, followers, favorited tweets, and retweets. <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-266348" alt="IMG_3489" src="http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/img_3489.png?<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-261465" alt="Screen Shot 2013-02-08 at 6.41.39 PM" src="http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-6-41-39-pm.png?w=704&h=348" width="704" height="348" /> AOL has informed its corporate employees that it has temporarily disabled the ability to manage meetings via mobile devices due to a bug with Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch iOS 6.1 operating system. We received an internal email from a source detailing the announcement from AOL CIO Michael Freker. Below is a statement from Freker to 9to5Mac that details the situation:
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<img alt="" src="http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/img_20130326_115652-e1364336959833.jpg?w=704" /> We were on hand in New York City today to watch the unveiling of the iPhone on T-Mobile and its new LTE/plans that purport to save T-Mobile customers a lot of money over its U.S. competitors.<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-266638" alt="T-Mobile-iPhone-5" src="http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/t-mobile-iphone-5.png?w=704&h=482" width="704" height="482" /> While Apple confirmed that purchasing a new AWS-enabled variant of the iPhone 5 was necessary to get on T-Mobile’s network, a new jaibreak hack claims to enable LTE at 1700mhz by loading a custom carrier firmware on an existing, unlocked AT&T iPhone 5 (A1428). Leimobile.com posted the full instructions: Now that you have an unlocked AT&T model A1428 or an officially unlocked model A1428 you can proceed to follow the instructions below to load a custom carrier file onto your iPhone and enable LTE.