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Last year, Wikipedia added nearby functionality to its desktop and mobile sites to let users find interesting content about subjects relevant to their location. The functionality has now come to the Android and iOS apps.
The feature shows you a list of articles for your location, and gives you the distance from where youre at. Theres also a compass that points you in the right direction, which is pretty cool.
This could be a pretty interesting thing to have on hand while youre traveling, if youre not using Andrew Masons Detour app.
You can tap an entry to read the article or long-press and open it in map view.
With this feature, were bringing Wikipedia into the world around you and enabling you to explore and learn more about your surroundings, the Wikimedia Foundation says in a blog post. Perhaps youve always wondered about that monument that you pass during your commute home, been curious about an architecturally interesting building, or simply wanted a to-do list while traveling. Now, the new Wikipedia app can surface those for you, and maybe itll even inspire you to add your own.
The foundation also announced some ideas it wants to work on. These include filtering nearby items by category, searching for other articles that are near the article youre reading, and letting you drop a pin on a map to see articles tagged near that location.
It looks like learning is going to continue to become more mobile.
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Wikipedia Mobile Apps Get Nearby Feature
Top officials of Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group that operates online encyclopedia Wikipedia, are in the country to promote its programs and partnership with mobile phone operator Smart Communications.
Carolynne Schloeder, head of global mobile partnerships at Wikimedia
Wikipedia usage among Smart, Talk N Text, and Sun Cellular subscribers has more than doubled since the launch of a program providing free and unlimited access to Wikipedia in March of this year.
Smart started offering Wikipedia access for free using its PowerApp mobile Internet platform. Subscribers only had to download the PowerApp mobile application and send a text code to avail themselves of the service.
Last September, Smart and Wikimedia launched the Wikipedia Zero offer in the Philippines to give Smart, Talk N Text, and Sun Cellulars 68.9 million customers unlimited access to m.wikipedia.org, zero.wikipedia.org, Wikipedia apps (available on iOS and Android devices), and other Wikimedia sites on their mobile device, free of data charges. The program will initially run until February 3, 2015.
Filipinos are keen to learn about the world. By making Wikipedia easily accessible through mobile devices, we are putting a huge virtual library of information in the hands of people wherever they go. This is great for students, professionals, and whoever needs to get information quickly, said Smart public affairs head Ramon R. Isberto.
Wikipedia Zero and our other programs with Wikimedia fit perfectly into Smarts overall drive to promote digital inclusion, particularly through the use of mobile technology for learning, he added.
Wikipedia Zero is a global Wikimedia initiative to provide access to knowledge to people around the world who cannot afford mobile data charges.
Aside from collaborating with Wikimedia to make Wikipedia Zero available to its subscribers, Smart has been working with Wikimedia Philippines for the Tap & Learn: Tablets for Education project.
Under this program, Filipino Wikipedia editors help train educators from public elementary and secondary schools across the country on how to use Wikipedia to enhance the learning experience of their students, as well as for their own professional development.
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Thats right theres now something else you can spend your magic beans on! I guess trading your cow for them doesnt seem so stupid after all, now that you can support such a worthy project.
According to the Coinbase Blog the company is helping the online encyclopaedia handle payments with all payments converted to US Dollars as soon as the transfer is made. Apparently in the first week, Wikipedia received over $140,000 in donations which is exactly the big sums Wikipedia needs to be raising if it wants to keep many of the important pages, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Oil online and accessible.
Expect to see Jimmy Waless face appealing for Bitcoin at the top of your browsers soon.
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The discussion turns to how the Wikimedia Foundation and Smart are working together on a variety of projects to enhance learning and promote heritage sites
TALKING ABOUT WIKIMEDIA. Carolynne Schloeder of the Wikimedia Foundation speaks with the media and Smart representatives. Photo by Victor Barreiro Jr./ Rappler
MANILA, Philippines In an event sponsored by Smart Telecommunications and the Wikimedia Foundation on Thursday, October 23, the two groups discussed how their combined efforts were helping to bring information to more people in the Philippines.
Smart launched a Wikipedia Zero offer in the Philippines last September, giving the 68.9 million users of Smart, Talk 'N Text, and Sun Cellular unlimited access to Wikipedia via m.wikipedia.org, zero.wikipedia.org and the Wikipedia app, as well as the Wikimedia sites via their mobile devices.
The program, which will initially run until February 3, 2015, is expected to gain traction among students, as well as professionals and those looking for up-to-date information at a glance.
In addition to the Wikipedia Zero initiative, Smart and Wikimedia Philippines have also been working together on the "Tap and Learn: Tablets for Education" and WikiExpedition projects.
Under the Tablets for Education project, Filipino Wikipedia editors will train educators from public elementary and secondary school across the country about using Wikipedia to enhance the learning experience of students. The training will also be useful for the educators' professional development.
The WikiExpedition activity, on the other hand, aims to map the cultural heritage of the country. WikiExpedition aims to promote heritage sites, museums, and other places of interest in the country by making information on those locations more readily-accessible.
The first WikiExpedition activity took place last September in Santa Ana, Manila. The activity saw 23 Wikimedia Philippines representatives and volunteers taking photos and mapping some 40 heritage sites in the area, with the Photos and articles uploaded to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. GPS coordinates were also plotted onto a Philippine Heritage Map.
Ramon Isberto, Smart's Public Affairs head, noted that "Wikipedia Zero and our other programs with Wikimedia fit perfectly into Smart's overall drive to promote digital inclusion, particularly through the use of mobile technology for learning." Rappler.com
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