Phoebe Ayers, 2009 in Review, The Wikipedia Signpost, January 11, 2010.
2009 was Wikipedia's ninth year, and the sixth year for the Wikimedia Foundation. ... 2009 saw major growth of the Wikimedia Foundation, global outreach and partnership activities, and more major grants and fundraising than ever before. At the same time, questions were raised over the health of the Wikipedia community, and debates over quality, content and sustainability continued.
One of the largest and furthest-reaching debates this year was over the future of licensing on the projects. ... The switch [to Creative Commons] was approved ...
2009 saw a new focus on partnerships with cultural organizations, or "GLAM" organizations (short for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Following on the heels of the German Bundesarchiv donation in late 2008, there were several large donations of images in 2009 from external organizations, including the Deutsche Fotothek, Antweb, and the Mary Rose Trust. ...
Relationships with archives took on a negative tone in July, when the National Portrait Gallery in the UK threatened a lawsuit towards an individual Wikipedian over images from the NPG that had been placed on Commons. ...
Outside organizations continued to use Wikimedia content for new applications as well ...
Two major grant-funded projects to improve the usability of MediaWiki began in 2009 ...
The Wikimedia Foundation grew this year, taking on new projects and hiring a number of new employees ...
The Foundation received several major grants in 2009 ...
At the end of 2009, the annual fundraiser was held. ... [T]he fundraiser resulted in over $8,000,000 in donations ...
Florence Devouard, former Board chair, was honored for her work on the Board with a Knighthood from the French government. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/13/2010 02:08:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
