Friday, December 12, 2008

Wikimedia Dilute Fund 9 Billion, Improve Wikipedia

To protect the interests of the Wikipedia contributors may feel that fear with the process of editing the articles they write, the Wikimedia Foundation, and then run the Internet encyclopedia with the funds to provide $ 890,000, or approximately Rp.9, 7 billion to make the process of editing articles more user-friendly. Anyone can contribute on Wikipedia, but with in-click the "Edit" can be confusing even contributors with the code that is mixed with their English-speaking.

There is a button at the top of the page that will eliminate the need for the code when the user will write their own coding. However, the Wikimedia Foundation has realized that some years there is the editing process is less familiar to users who want to make a valuable contribution in Wikipedia. "Wikipedia, invites contributors who have high technical ability of understanding, contributors are not too smart, and people who know little about the technology to become a writer or editor." Said Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation executive director.
Wikimedia will make all the code into open source. Wikimedia Foundation funds to provide $ 890,000 from Stanton Foundation for the project, the editing process and plan to make the team, which consists of five people to identify what actually makes the sudden contributors do not want to fill in the content, Wikipedia. In addition, Wikimedia will also see the technical elements of the site that causes the contributors lazy to see.

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