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writes that, according to Heilman, "as many as 38 of the 48 most experienced and trusted volunteers at Wikitravel have said they will move to the Wikimedia project". The migration of the remaining Wikitravel volunteers to the foundation would come six years after German-speaking Wikitravel editors
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sued Slater, saying Naruto owned the copyright (and they should administer it for him because that's how they think this works). Knowledge said, (correctly, according to judges), that you can't claim a copyright on behalf of an animal photographer, and uploaded the image to our servers, and Slater
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at which attendees shared what they knew of Bassel and discussed his work and the circumstances of his death. Many media outlets reported on Bassel's death. Knowledge participants wishing to demonstrate condolences may edit the Knowledge articles about Bassel and his work, read
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Disenchantment within the volunteer Wikitravel community appears to concern an intensification of advertising on the site, IB's technical management, and the company's treatment of the volunteers who have built the CC-licensed content over many years. In today's
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Bassel had been arrested on 15 March 2012 and held in detention until September 2015 when his communication was cut and the Syrian prison system ceased communication about him. The Wikimedia community and others participated in a campaign asking
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look absolutely unseemly when placed next to their 2007 counterparts. I think we need a return to those days. Less is more. I can't believe that a casual reader would ever read the whole of
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site, followed soon after by their fellow Italian-speaking editors. The non-profit association that runs Wikivoyage voted three months ago to join the proposed travel-related WMF project.
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With respect to the lawsuit against DocJames and Wrh2, since it was a civil action, they would have been found "not liable"; "acquitted" is for criminal cases.
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states that any internet discussion that goes on too long will eventually have a Nazi comparison. Well, things have gotten so ugly in America that
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However, perhaps most interesting was that in 2007, some basic features of Knowledge were still being worked out, hence
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After months of community-led discussion on Meta, last Thursday the WMF's Deputy General Counsel, Kelly Kay,
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Two issues came out in September 2017, as the continually delayed production finally caught up, moving
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concluded in early September 2017. David Slater put out photographic equipment for monkeys to use, and
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or gain anything more than they would from reading the straight-to-the-point 2007 version. —
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Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be
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announced Wikimedia's victory in the lawsuit, and the acquittal of the two Wikipedians.
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walked out of the project soon after Internet Brands acquired it, forking into a new
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from publishing around the 6th of every month to nearer the 26th, but other than a
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that the board "is moving forward with the creation of this new project", and had
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In dramatic events that came to light last week, two English Knowledge volunteers—
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Putting this here for layout reasons: September 2007 had what may be my favourite
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You can help Knowledge by formatting it if you know how. Please also consider
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for news on next steps, or take action as they deem respectful in his memory.
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explained how Knowledge can't just change things because someone asks us to.
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issues, so please don't make me have to be more careful for future issues..
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Yep, we're back again for a structured look into Knowledge's history...
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and says there were about three dozen people who worked on it in total.
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Honestly, I rather agree. We got a bit of text-bloat going on there.
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on August 15, several other media outlets picked up on the vandalism.
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Before standardisation (I used the last version from 2006 for each)
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as we go back ten years, but each issue is much shorter. In 2012,
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continued, with more embarassing conflicts of interest found.
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the extrajudicial death of Palestinian Syrian Wikipedian
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took this selfie. Slater claimed copyright on the image,
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slight obsession
chickens
conclusion of the monkey selfie lawsuits
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September started with appallingly bad news:
Bassel Khartabil
Bluerasberry
#WhereIsBassel
Wikimania 2017 in Montreal
Editathon for Bassel
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