It looks like everyone's favorite source for info about sci-fi characters, historical trivia, and other random stuff will be safe for a while longer. The Wikimedia Foundation, which is the organization behind Wikipedia, has received a $500,000 grant.
It appears that all Wikimedia content will become available for free under the Creative Commons License soon. This has been approved by a 75% majority of community voters, though the decision has not yet been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees. The licensing update/result page says:
Some controversy stirred up earlier this week after the Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped in on behalf of the creators of Wikipediaart.org, a site dedicated to a Wikipedia-related art project. The EFF was responding to demands by a lawyer for the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent company of Wikipedia, that the artists turn over control of the domain.
UDPATE, 5/1/09: Wales got back with us with his comments about the matter. They are as follows:
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, is partnering with European mobile provider Orange. The partnership will see Orange devices carrying co-branded content for customers in France, the UK, Spain, and Poland.
Have you heard of Wikianswers? No, not Wiki Answers, Wikianswers. Yes it's a little confusing, but I'm not just babbling incoherently. Wikianswers is a recently (re)launched site from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
By all accounts, Radiohead’s name-your-own-price album was downloaded millions of times. No one’s sure how much people paid, however. And although the Wikimedia Foundation has apparently received over 14,000 donations, the dollar value of those gifts remains unknown.
At this point, Mountain View, California more or less is Google. Everyone knows Microsoft’s based in Redmond, and Yahoo’s associated with Sunnyvale. Now, shaking things up, Wikimedia will move from St. Petersburg, Florida to San Francisco.
Leuksman.com published some revealing statistics on Wikimedia traffic.
According to Wikimedia, Google has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects.
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