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image thumb1 5 Wikipedia Donation Fails You Can’t Miss

We must promote the availability of knowledge for free. Far and wide and to as many people out there as possible. And when it comes to information, Wikipedia is the best source for all this (though I believe quite a lot of information was written by people who had no one to listen to their whining). What we do love about Wikipedia is when they have poor Jimmy Wales right on top of every article appealing for donations for Wikipedia, just to keep the knowledge hub running.

We are sharing some of the most WTF Donate For Wikipedia Moments and would love to have our readers share the same with us. Have you ever performed a search on Wikipedia for an odd word or personality and found Jimmy Wales picture right above that odd name or word? Feel free to share links! In the meantime enjoy ours!

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image thumb66 Update: YouTube And Wikipedia Unblocked In Pakistan: A Relief To Heightening Frustrations

I know many people in Pakistan were frustrated by the government banning access to YouTube and Wikipedia but there is good news for them all. People can access both the websites for now and I can bet everyone will be rejoicing this, I am to say the least. While this is good news for sure, Facebook still remains blocked, something that has made the liberals feels frustrated and left out.

I have no idea whether the accessibility is temporary or the ban has been lifted for good. But if you happen to be one of those detesting the bans in Pakistan, please do record and upload your video comments on the Online Video sharing site, chances are quite high that your view points might get a few hundred views of the 2 billion that YouTube gets each day.

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image thumb47 Craig Newmark joins Wikimedia Foundations Advisory Board

Craig Newmark is making his move as the Craiglist founder joins Wikimedia Foundation‘s advisory board. The board as we all know was created back in 2007, where members would at the yearly conference to decide and discuss various issues and share  their expertise. With the inclusion of Newmark, I guess the Foundation is looking forward to have a customer service expert or something on similar lines for the guy.

image thumb85 Wikipedia scores three million articles (in English)

Wikipedia emerged as a encyclopedia for the people by the people (doesn’t it sound a bit too democratic?) and it has lived up to its name with an exponential growth and a hub of information. The encyclopedia reached a milestone as it added the three millionth article. The growth has sort of stunted in the recent past but it still fulfills the demand of almost anyone who is looking for something. Plus there is an immense room for it to flourish, given that it is available in numerous languages. Let’s see how the encyclopedia grows in the future, which I bet  is pretty bright for it.