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Nicholas Michael Bashour <nicholasbashour@gmail.com>Date: 2012/7/18
Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Scientific American article on knowledge philanthropy
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Another article, although this one is from one of the attendees and the presenter of the talk "US National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Health," as opposed to press.
“Knowledge philanthropist.” This is how Jack Herrick characterizes people who contribute to Wikipedia. The title is apt.
Herrick was speaking at last week’s equally aptly named international Wikimania. That’s the enthusiastic and passionate annual tribal gathering of people around Wikipedia, let loose this year on Washington DC.
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Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour
President
Wikimedia District of Columbia
Washington, DC, USA