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Wikimedia and KDE Cooperation Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the wikitacular dept.

eean writes "As reported by KDE Dot News, today Jimmy Wales, chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced the beginning of a cooperation between Wikimedia and the KDE project at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. As the first applications, like the media player amaroK, start to integrate Wikipedia content the idea is to create a webservice API to access the information from Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia or Wiktionary."

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  1. I swear to God... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they better not name it Kikipedia, or Wikide.

    1. Re:I swear to God... by buraianto · · Score: 3, Funny

      They'll name it Kwikipedia. And when you need to look something up on the internet, it will be known as "getting a kwiki".

  2. Wikepedia in the news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    http://www.gnaa.us/pr.phtml?troll=gnaa-wikipedia

  3. Playing Tag? by Gertlex · · Score: 4, Funny

    The plan WAS to get all these linux penguins playing tag, but they never quite got started. The rules consulted on Wikipedia.org were changed from moment to moment.

  4. Great! by TheStick · · Score: 3, Funny
    Let's just hope they won't add integrated Wikipedia to KTeaTime

    "Earl Grey tea is a black tea blend, which gets a distinctive flavour and aroma from bergamot oil..."

    1. Re:Great! by m50d · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why not? I've got about six boxes of tea in my cupboard from various sources with little idea what each is like without trying them. It'd be nice to have my tray applet suggest what might be suitable.

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    2. Re:Great! by GweeDo · · Score: 3, Funny

      You are new to Wikipedia aren't you? The entry should look something more like this:
      "Earl Grey tea is a black tea ..."
      Hope this helps you fit in more.

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  5. Re:Will this affect our Leaders at Google? by m50d · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure KDE's competitors at Gnome will rush to collaborate with Google in response, given how their name starts

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  6. Re:Will this affect our Leaders at Google? by halltk1983 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would it be Gnoogle or Goome? I'm partial to Gnoogle myself... it sounds cuddly.

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  7. Re:Good Idea by Yankel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rumour has it that Linus is going to dump Git and use Wikipedia to host the kernel code.

    Who needs a moderator?

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  8. Shoulda done it with GNOME by foreverdisillusioned · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't believe no one has pointed out the blindingly obvious GNOME counterpart--Gikipedia. "Geeky-pedia."

    The marketing practically writes itself.

  9. Re:Speaking of amarok by cmbofh · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're mean. You're destroying people's prejudice that KDE can only add features and bloat.

    Good decision, BTW.