Huge German Donation Marks Wikipedia's Evolution

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 30, 2009 @01:52PM 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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Re:Gee... by moonbender · 2009-03-30 23:06 · Score: 0, Troll

Are you kidding? Those are some "particularly egregious" examples of things going wrong on Wikipedia? A debate about an entry of an episode for some sci-fi show and one about a Pokemon character? Duuurrr. If that's the worst you can come up with I think Wikipedia will do fine.

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