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Marking a milestone in the world of web-based services, WIKIPEDIA this year celebrated its 15th anniversary. Fifteen years ago, on 15th January, 2001 Wikipedia came into existence, and now it made its charisma as the internet’s “Free Encyclopedia”. ...

Entrance to the Met. Photo by Arad, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, known by many as the Met, announced that it is placing more than 375,000 images of public-domain works in the museum’s collection under a Creative...

I've remarked in passing that the tagging of certain things in OpenStreetMap can be highly variable. This post started because I just wanted to show a few examples from shops which were putatively related to gender of mappers. However, I've also got...

New project process/bg added to category New page {{draft}} <div style="border:1px solid #aaa; padding:0 6px 4px 8px; margin:10px; font-style:italic;"> Previous pages to merge into this one: * [[New project policy]] * [[Proposal protocol...

This is part of series of blog posts highlighting focus points for the Open Science Working Group in 2015. These draw on activities started in the community during 2014 and suggestions from the Working Group Advisory Board. By opensourceway on Flickr...