December 2011
3 posts
Wikipedia Banner Challenge
As you can tell from the banners appearing all over Wikipedia, their fundraiser is in full swing. Despite Wikipedia’s importance as a global resource, only about one-in-a-thousand Wikipedia readers donate. One way to improve that would be better banners, and that’s why we are launching the Wikipedia Banner Challenge, a website to collect and prioritize banner ideas for Wikipedia. You ...
Governor Genro tops President Obama on Citizen...
Something neat is happening in Porto Alegre, Brazil today. Governor Tarso Genro, of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, is meeting with some of his constituents. Of course, that’s pretty normal; governors meet with constituents all the time. What is neat is how those constituents were selected. They are not the ones with the most money or influence, they are the ones with the best ideas.
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great news: another grant from Google
Our project has just been awarded another Google Faculty Research Award. This grant will allow us to continue our research and keep improving allourideas.org. Thank you Google.