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Wikimedia Foundation launches new travel guide

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The foundation behind crowd-sourced knowledge compendium Wikipedia on Tuesday launched a free online travel guide built collaboratively by volunteers from around the globe. Wikimedia Foundation rolled out Wikivoyage.org as its popular online encyclopedia celebrated its 12th birthday and said that the travel guide was debuting with 50,000 articles in more…

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Wikipedia sees future — and threat — in cell phones

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Cell phones could be Wikipedia’s path to global domination, but may also pose a risk to the crowdsourcing culture the online encyclopedia relies on, chief executive Sue Gardner says. On one hand, says Gardner, who is also executive director of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, cell phones are by far the…

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Annual Wikipedia fundraising hits new high

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SAN FRANCISCO — An annual Wikipedia fundraising campaign ended Tuesday with donors around the world pumping a record $20 million into the foundation that runs the free online knowledge repository. Non-profit Wikimedia Foundation launched the campaign in November, getting an early boost in the form of a $500,000 grant from…

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