An interview with Jimbo Wales

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Just five years ago, when Jimbo Wales founded Wikipedia, the project’s goal of 100,000 articles [1] seemed ambitious. Yet today, the project, now …

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Still no action in standoff in Ontario town

Monday, April 17, 2006 Seven weeks after citizens of the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve repossessed land near Caledonia, Ontario, on February 28, the Ontario Provincial Police, who have authority from a court to arrest the protesters for contempt of court, have yet to act. On April 11, …

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At least 85 dead in shooting at Norwegian youth camp

 Correction — August 22, 2015 The official death toll was subsequently lowered. See Norwegian police lower death toll in massacre.  Saturday, July 23, 2011 File:Anders Behring Breivik (Facebook portrait in suit).jpg A gunman, identified by Norwegian media as Anders Behring Breivik, has shot and killed at least 85 people at a …

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Long Island-sized iceberg to ram Antarctic coast

Friday, January 14, 2005 The Drygalski Ice Tongue on Antarctica’s coastline may be bitten off this week by a huge iceberg which is on a collision course with the floating glacier tongue. Antarctic scientists, at the nearby McMurdo Research Station, are watching the movement of iceberg B15A, a remnant of …

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