From the Wikimedia Blog Post: The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons. The Walters’ collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings. The images and their associated information will join our collection of [...]
Cool and Online! Smithsonian/Archives of American Art Donates 285 WPA-Era Photographs to Wikimedia Commons
Filed by on October 26, 2011
From Smithsonian.com: Wikipedia, the most widely used encyclopedia on the world, consistently ranks among the web’s top sites and garners instant recognition among nearly all internet users. A related project—Wikimedia Commons, a source of free-use, public domain photos, video and other multimedia available to anyone—is less widely known, but essential for supplying multimedia content for [...]
What I Learned (and Did Not Learn) From Wikipedia the Other Day
Filed by on July 18, 2011
By Gary Price C0-Founder, Co-Editor Here’s a story, an real life example, about Wikipedia that came about during at dinner the other night. Yes, it’s one example from one article but I think if nothing else it’s a useful example. If I said that this experience was going to stop me from ever using Wikipedia [...]
Interview: "Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales takes wiki work seriously"
Filed by on May 12, 2011
From a USA Today Interview by Jefferson Graham: Wikipedia, which turned 10 this year, is almost a household name. Now Wales is trumpeting sister site Wikia, which he set up for fans of TV shows, movies and video games to wax poetically about their favorites, without the restrictions of the by-the-facts neutral encyclopedia. “It’s where [...]
