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Wikimedia Foundation raises $25 million to date in its 2012 fundraiser from over 1.2 million people

The Next Web : Wikimedia Foundation, the parent non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and other similar sites, has raised $25 million from its 2012 fundraising campaign. Since November 27, the foundation has been seeking donations from readers and supporters and to date, it has received contributions from more than 1.2 million donors.

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thenextweb.com
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WT:Social Will Be An Alternative To Facebook, Twitter: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales anticipates that ‘WT:Social’ networking and the program will be set off as another substitute to Facebook and Twitter to share the news.

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techacrobat.com
masterfox1613d ago

hell yeah another service to compromise even more your personal information, seriously from IT Engineer please use your brain a bit before sending your information to another unknown company.

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20,000 Chinese writers will create their own Wikipedia competitor

"Our goal is not to catch up, but overtake."

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arstechnica.com
thorstein2543d ago

Make sure it only contains primary documents and it will be perfect. No need for the 20-30% of misinformation Wikipedia includes.

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Turkey blocks Wikipedia over an alleged 'smear campaign'

Turkey just escalated its bid to silence online dissent.

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engadget.com