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Today, our friends at the Open Video Alliance launched an important advocacy project (see their announcement), called “Let’s Get Video on Wikipedia“. The ...
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Wikipedia Today in 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell made his first bi-directional phone call, saying: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" http://bit.ly/WP_Telephone

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The modern telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically", after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. ...
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Another quick update from the Wikimedia Usability team — the Foundation team working on user interface and editing system improvements for Wikipedia and the Foundation’s projects. If...
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Wikipedia Norwegian Wikipedia just reached 250,000 articles! Congrats! Thanks, User:Ordensherre for the contribution: http://bit.ly/JacquesFaure

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Jacques Marie A. G. Faure (født 2. mars 1904 i Bordeaux, død 9. april 1988 i Paris) var en fransk general i hæren og idrettsmann. Faure kjempet i De frie franske styrker under andre verdenskrig. Han utmerket seg i slaget om Narvik og ble for dette tildelt Krigskorset, Norges fremste utmerkelse. ...
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Our very positive revenue perspective (we have already exceeded our fundraising targets for the fiscal year, and received a very generous $2M grant from Google) allows us to do something we’ve hoped to be able to do: make our investment in user experience (see original press release) permanent. ...
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This week we watched our projects hit two big milestones. Russian Wikipedia has just slipped past the 500,000 article mark. It continues to remain in the top ten largest Wikipedia...
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Wikipedia Today, in 1986 Corazon Aquino was inaugurated 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold the office http://bit.ly/c_aquino

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Wikipedia Today in 1822: The first Swaminarayan temple, Swaminarayan Mandir in present-day Ahmedabad, India, was inaugurated http://bit.ly/9nP8n1

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Earlier today we announced a generous $2 million (USD) grant to the Wikimedia Foundation from the Google Inc. Charity Fund at the Tides Foundation...
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Wikipedia It's Official: Wikimedia Foundation announces $2 million grant from Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation http://bit.ly/d3weRn Thanks, Google!

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An update from the Wikipedia Usability Initiative – the team working to streamline and simplify the editing experience on Wikipedia. You asked and we listened. ...
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Wikipedia Jimmy Wales "I am excited to announce that Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation in support of Wikipedia! Formal announcement tomorrow... "

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Wikipedia Are you a developer? Interested/experienced in fundraising? We're hiring: http://bit.ly/WikimediaJobs

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We are looking for creative, motivated people who like to work in a highly-collaborative environment. If you want to be part of a growing and successful non-profit organization that’s making a difference everywhere around the world, then this is the place for you.
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Wikipedia On this day in 1763 – Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris and ended the Seven Years' War: http://bit.ly/TreatyParis

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The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. It ended the ...
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Wikipedia Today in 1948 the country of Sri Lanka won its independence. (Dominion of Ceylon) http://bit.ly/srilanka_day

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Sri Lanka (from the Sanskrit श्री लंका “Venerable Island”), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (pronounced /ˌɕriːˈlaŋkaː/, Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා, Tamil: இலங்கை; known as Ceylon (/sɪˈlɒn/) ...
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