Wikia Search Alpha Release Now Ready For The Open Source Community
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Monday, January 7th, 2008 | 676 ViewsJimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia has recently released a new open source project. The new project is supposed to be a search engine that an open source community builds, similar to Wikipedia. The open source tool used for the platform is Nutch and the index of web pages that revolve around Wikia currently was put together by Grub, [...]
Anonymous Friend Gives Wikipedia $286,800.00 Donation
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, December 28th, 2006 | 141 ViewsYesterday around 10:18PM, an anonymous friend donated $286,800 to Wikimedia Fundraising C.O.R.E., the arm of fund collection for Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales’ Wikipedia. As of right now Wikimedia Fundraising C.O.R.E. has raised over $709,000. Since Wikipedia is a non-profit open-source website, all donations are appreciated. According to Alexa, Wikipedia is the #12 ranked website, so [...]
Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales to Develop Search Engine, Wikiasari
4 COMMENTS | Amit Chowdhry | Saturday, December 23rd, 2006 | 127 Views[Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, image source Wikipedia]
[Edit: Please note that my source has a bit of incorrect information. Judging by the comment by Mr. Wales in this blog post, it appears that Amazon is not a part of this project.]
Wikiasari, a combination of the Hawaii words, ‘wiki’ and ‘asari’ which mean ‘quick ‘and ‘rummaging search’ [...]
