wikipedia

We have a WIkipedia page. As usual when it comes to the world's favorite encyclopedia, the content is the result of tons of iterations from willing volunteers. But our article "may require clean-up" to "meet the required "quality standards". If we have wikipedians inside our community, could you please help us make our page better? I muss confess I do not know enough of the Wikipedia guidelines to make effective corrections.

Here is the link!

Florence Devouard, who was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board till July 2008, gives a quick update of the situation at Wikipedia. She shows the recent evolution and initiative of the collaborative on-line encyclopedia.

Florence Devouard, who was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board till July 2008, gives a quick update of the situation at Wikipedia. She shows the recent evolution and initiative of the collaborative on-line encyclopedia.

Two years ago, Florence Devouard, the former chair of the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit entity that owns the very popular open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia) and now member of the Advisory Board of Wikimedia Foundation. She gave an insightful presentation about the Wikipedia that she ended with the important issue of the platform's sustainability. The computing costs at that time had gone up substantially and it led them to referring to the pressing need for the foundation (as a nonprofit organization) to find funds.

Florence will be back at Lift09 and give a brief talk on the current (and much improved) situation of Wikipedia.

Florence Devouard is the chairwoman of Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia. She speaks on "Wikipedia: a social innovation?" at the LIFT07 conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 8, 2007.