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Volunteer photographers are fixing Wikipedia's terrible celebrity headshots

Engadget

Go to a profile of any celebrity on Wikipedia and it's quite possible that you'll be met with a terrible photo of them. Any media uploaded to Wikipedia has to be made freely available for anyone to use. But Jeremy said, 'Wait, youre from Wikipedia? A group of volunteer photographers has set out to fix that, as 404 Media reports.

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This volunteer crew is on a mission to fix Wikipedia’s worst celebrity photos

Fast Company Tech

Visit a celebritys Wikipedia page and theres a good chance youll be greeted by a blurry, outdated, or unflattering photo. Wikipedia requires all images to be freely available for public use. to capture high-quality, freely licensed images specifically for Wikipedia. Wait, youre from Wikipedia? The reason?

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Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT

The Verge

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (or NFT) based on his first edit of the free encyclopedia. Auction house Christie’s will hold a sale of the token from December 3rd to 15th, auctioning it alongside the Strawberry iMac Wales was using around Wikipedia’s launch. Jimmy Wales / Christie’s.

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some images are in the public domain and some of licensed through creative commons which can be used as long as you give proper attribution. Flickr Creative Commons – Flickr is a photo site but it offers creative commons licensing and you can use it combined with keyword searches to find an image.

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Goldman Sachs releases new font you’re not allowed to criticize Goldman Sachs with

The Verge

As their license states , you’re free to use Goldman Sans for just about anything you like so long as you don’t use it to criticize Goldman Sachs. And although Goldman Sans is nominally a free font, Goldman Sachs retains complete control over the license, allowing it terminate usage for any reason it likes. Is that disparagement?

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009.

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Viva Tel Aviv: Meet the 6 amazing startups launching at Techono.me today

The Next Web

Examples: revamped versions of Wikipedia and Craigslist. Words that are ‘one-layered’ in actual books can be automatically linked to other sources for information (translation, Wikipedia, audio, search etc.). Interestingly, Learni was made for Android tablets (for starters, at least).

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