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description: a free web-based travel guide, part of the Wikimedia Foundation projects

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Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

by Dariusz Jemielniak  · 13 May 2014  · 312pp  · 93,504 words

, has a community of volunteers to develop a travel advisory wiki-guide. However, in 2012 a significant part of the community decided to partner with Wikivoyage, a German fork of Wikitravel (created in 2004 as a result of dissatisfaction with Wikitravel’s decision to run ads), and together came under the

accessible through a data dump (allowed by Creative Commons license, although disabled shortly thereafter by Internet Brands), the new website, running under the brand of Wikivoyage, took over both the content and the crucial part of the Wikitravel community, leaving Internet Brands in a very difficult strategic position (Cohen, 2012; see

also [[Wikivoyage]]). 3. Small steps in this area are being made. For example, the American Sociological Association is calling on its members to improve and develop better

Wikipedia Wikipedia Review, 166 Wikipedia Signpost, 74, 139, 235–236n2 WikiPortals/WikiProjects, 23, 232n1 (chap. 4) Wikitravel, 187, 235n2 (chap. 8) Wikiversity, 164–167, 177 Wikivoyage, 235n2 (chap. 8) WikiWikiWeb, 10 “wisdom of crowds,” 124, 183 WMF (Wikimedia Foundation). See Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Wood, Donna J., 107–108 worker exploitation or

Collaborative Society

by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska  · 18 Feb 2020  · 187pp  · 50,083 words

LibreOffice because of their concerns regarding licensing and its potential limitations. When Wikitravel introduced ads in 2012, a large part of its community forked into Wikivoyage, a new project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Currently, however, many for-profit corporations successfully introduce peer production—not commons-based production—as a method

Mastering Structured Data on the Semantic Web: From HTML5 Microdata to Linked Open Data

by Leslie Sikos  · 10 Jul 2015

features both human-readable and machine-readable contents, at http://www.wikidata.org. Wikidata contains structured data from Wikimedia projects, such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource, as well as from the once popular directly editable Freebase dataset, resulting in approximately 13 million data items. In contrast to many other