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Wikipedia does deal with Orange-> 0

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David Gerard

on Wednesday April 22 2009, @07:55PM

David Gerard writes "Wikipedia has done a deal with Orange, France Telecom's mobile brand in several European countries (France, UK, Poland and Spain). Orange gets Wikipedia content and gets to use the Wikipedia puzzle globe, the Wikimedia Foundation gets publicity and money. There's FAQ and a video (in French)."
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Wikipedia's 2008 donation campaign kicks off-> 1

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David Gerard

on Thursday November 06 2008, @04:01PM

David Gerard writes "It's that time of year again: Wikipedia needs your money. The Wikimedia sites don't have ads — it all runs on donations. This year, the Wikimedia Foundation is hitting the theme that Wikipedia, the most popular Wikimedia site, is useful to you every day so deserves your support. The goal this time is six million dollars, which is approximately nothing to run a top 10 site (#8 on Alexa, #4 on ComScore). They're at almost $2 million so far. There's blog buttons and radio/podcast PSAs too. The site had its greatest traffic ever on election night, falling over for a short time under the strain."
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Comment: Website (Score 1) 102

by Mike Peel on Friday October 24 2008, @04:59PM (#25503107) Attached to: Stellar Seismologists Record "Music" From Stars

erm... the Jodcast is the _podcast_ from Jodrell Bank, not the website. Try http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/ for the actual website for Jodrell Bank.

But the Jodcast is well worth a listen to anyway.