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Huge German Donation Marks Wikipedia's Evolution

Posted by kdawson on from the more-pictures-than-you dept.

Raul654 writes "In December, we discussed the German Federal Archive's agreement, at the urging of Wikimedia Deutschland, to donate 100,000 pictures to Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. At the time that was the largest picture donation ever to Wikipedia, and thought to be largest in the history of the free culture movement. Now Wikimedia Deutschland has reached a similar agreement with the Saxon State and University Library, which will donate 250,000 pictures to Wikipedia under CCA-ShareAlike. On a not-unrelated note: Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue its Encarta encyclopedia."

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  1. Encarta? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone know it was still around?

    1. Re:Encarta? by Bob54321 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Did anyone know it was still around?

      Well, yes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta

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  2. Re:Gee... by bhtooefr · · Score: 4, Funny

    The beauty of their license is, you can scrape their DB, make a new wiki-based encyclopedia, and try to compete on flexibility of rules.

  3. Re:"Huge German Donation" by copponex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Das sagt deine Freundin auch immer!!!!!

  4. Re:Gee... by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny
    I find the discussion pages to be much more informative than the article itself in many cases.

    The peter north discussion, for example, contains dozens of people repeating the same basic arguments over and over:

    • He has a big dick!
    • It's statistically impossible for him to have a large dick!
    • I have lots of (gay) sex and his dick is average.
    • I have a large dick, too!
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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.