Steve Virgin, one of the Wikimedia UK board members, recently gave a talk at a
Bristol Social Media forum about various things happening with Wikimedia
projects in Britain. The talk was positively covered in a blog from a
participant:
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2010/02/18/discussion-group-shows-geeks-are-social/#more-22714
"How can fictional stories incorporate technology? What does the future hold
for Wikipedia’s sister projects ? And is it fair to say that social media
sucks?...
...
Next up was Steve Virgin , a member of the United Kingdom chapter of the
Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind Wikipedia. After sharing some arresting
statistics about the site’s impact (347 million people — 35% of the online
population –use Wikipedia, while 40,000 English speakers make at least five
edits each per month) he talked about the work that is going on with the
organization’s nine other projects which cover, among other topics, news ,
books , quotations and the classification of species .
The biggest growth is in Wikimedia Commons , a project to collect
copyright-free media resources such as photographs and videos. The big push
this year is to encourage museums to follow the example of the Dresden
University Library which donated 250,000 images. One tactic is to promote the
potential benefits of such donations, such as releasing part of an archive as a
promotional tool to boost sales of other images. There is also work in progress
to reduce the technical hassles involved in donating images, which may include
a tie-in with Flickr ."
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