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SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation Launch Wikipedia Selection for Schools
SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation have launched the Wikipedia Selection for schools. The Selection DVD has the content of a 15 volume encyclopedia - with 24,000 pictures, 14 million words and articles on 4,625 topics. It includes the best of Wikipedia, and many thousands of pages of extra material specifically selected to be of interest to children aged 8-17 who follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world. Read More
Time is running out! Wikimania 2007 early registration is open until May 15
Early registration and call for participation for Wikimania 2007, the third International Wikimedia Conference, is open until May 15. The conference will be held in Taipei from August 3-5. Please visit wikimania2007.wikimedia.org for further information. (7 May 2007)
English Wikiquote reaches 10,000th article milestone
The English language edition of Wikiquote, a community-built multilingual compendium of quotations reaches 10,000th articles.
The article is for quotes by or about Langdon Smith, which was started by the Wikiquote contributor known with the username Kalki. Wikiquote as a whole contains over 60,000 articles in over 35 languages. Read more...(7 May 2007)