WikiThing. Sidewiki. Library Success A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success A Best Practices Wiki. Library 2.0 wiki. The free encyclopedia. So you want to build a wiki - Farkas. Wikimedia Australia. News 18 November 2013: Elections open for the Wikimedia Australia 2013 Annual General Meeting. 20 July 2013: Watch this Wikimedia Foundation Metrics meeting youtube video (about 1 hour) which is a series of presentations on the state of Wikipedia and new initiatives introduced to address areas of concern, such as editor attrition -- very informative! Agenda and some slidepacks available here 17 July 2013: The World Intellectual Property Organisation has established a treaty which seeks to ensure that copyright is not a barrier to translating books etc into formats suitable for visually impaired people and to allow these to be shared across national boundaries (to avoid having to repeat the translation in each country).
It is expected that this will increase the range of material available for visually impaired people worldwide. Read more! Join us! Wikimedia Australia is always seeking new members. You can read more about becoming a member, and signing up, on this page. NZ. Twitter - Library Success A Best Practices Wiki. Twitter is a free online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".
It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Today Twitter is becoming a commonly used marketing tool for companies and organizational tool for social movements such as the Arab Spring .