On Tuesday January 15 premiered Wikivoyage Wikipedia, one of the biggest travel guides worldwide.

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guidebook when it is in nine languages ​​and has more than 50,000 items, of which 1,099 were in Spanish.

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project began following a boost proposed by many of the administrators and the Wikitravel community, an online travel guide that was created in 2006 in Germany and in mid-2012 began to generate dissatisfaction by Frequent users of the site and its contents restated workers permanently.

Wikitravel

was in several languages: English, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, Swedish and others.

But it was in mid 2012 that most of the English Wikitravel community and site administrators group began a new non-commercial project. As next act this group of people presented their idea to the Wikimedia Foundation in order to capture their interest in this new work.

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people are interested in this project and approved in October 2012, then installed the site on the servers of the company in December of that year to finish being officially released on Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013.

On this project the Wikimedia Foundation director Sue Gardner, said: “There is a huge demand for traveler information, but very few sources are exhaustive and non-commercial”, adding: “That’s what we want to change “.

Successful Wikivoyage

or Wikiviajes in Spanish, simply and solely depends on the willingness of travelers. These are responsible for making your account active and work with the community, ala Wikipedia. Beyond that, the site director announced there will be 200 payments publishers to offer the best possible service to users of this site.

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As you can imagine the lack of activity in MuyLinux, we mini-vacations of Holy Week, that I jump to at least bring you the usual and PING every Saturday . Plus, it comes much more loaded than usual (so nobody complains ;) .

PING # 14: GNOME, Red Hat, OpenStack, ownCloud, Kubuntu, VLC, Linux, Android, CryEngine, Ubuntu, GIMP, Wikipedia, SMPlayer, Mageia, Wallpapers ...

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  • GNOME LiveCD 3.4 in : I recently came GNOME 3.4, and GNOME.org already prepared disk images for those who want to take a look at the new version of the desktop.
  • Red Hat gives a ‘billion’ of thanks and donates $ 100,000 : After optimal financial results, Red Hat and behaves the same company CEO Jim Whitehurst said in OpenSource. com this important gift to be shared among Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center and UNICEF Innovation Labs
  • OpenStack Hidden History : If anyone was in doubt last week what OpenStack and why it matters, in Wired takes a look pretty intense but very interesting.
  • ownCloud, Inc. launches offer for SMEs : This brilliant software for cloud computing is already offering for small and medium enterprises. All MuyComputerPRO details.
  • Kubuntu could accept external sponsors : As we all know, Canonical will stop financially sponsoring Kubuntu release from coming, so turn sought chestnuts, which they say. More information at Phoronix.
  • VLC wants to read protected Blu-Ray : To do (is not supposed to Blu-Ray was a standard?) as saying in Le Monde, VideoLAN project representatives have attended the French authorities, the same as those applying Hadopi. See what they say.
  • “We’re number one where it matters” : These are the words of Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation president, picked up by The Register, in an article that reviews all the successes of Linux (the desktop is not talk a lot).
  • Instagram

  • Android now available : Well, not if someone will be interested, or if anyone still not heard (unlikely), but just in case you have the information in MuyComputer .
  • CryEngine 3 for Linux : Referring again to Phoronix, there seems to be a Linux port of this powerful graphics engine that uses OpenGL, although in practice not be of much .
  • Mark Shuttleworth defends

  • contributions Ubuntu : The usual, only this time it Shuttleworth has come to defend their project contributions to the free software community, as told in ZDNet.
  • GIMP 2.8 RC1

  • : As you read it (in GIMP Users). It seems that this time, really has little to developers of this free software application icon to launch the new version. Currently only available source code.
  • Wikipedia
  • OpenStreetMap is passed in its ‘apps’ mobile : And it was about time, right? You can expand the information in MuyComputer.
  • SMPlayer 0.8.0
  • : After nearly two years without news, the developer of SMPlayer has returned to rock it to your project, and in recent months have fallen off three new versions. In the last but also of the above give a good account in Gespadas, including downloads.
  • Mageia 2 release postponed : the distribution developers need more time to fix some major errors, therefore, as told in The H Open, will be a third beta, and the end date is delayed.
  • Wallpapers

  • official Ubuntu 4.12 and Fedora 16 : If you want to make you with them, you just have to go through OMG! Ubuntu! Blog and KDE respectively, the links await you there.
  • PING this week? No, is a video that surely you have seen almost all already, but otherwise you should not miss anyone . I published a couple of days our fellow MuyComputerPRO and for some strange reason, we missed us. How do you build Linux

    Now, red bunting, this PING is over . Fare ye well, back on Tuesday ;)

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     Screenshot of Wikipedia 083 059 2012 January 17 perform a 24-hour blackout against SOUP

    Rumors emerged for days and finally confirmed: Wikipedia perform a” blackout “ at all sites English as a demonstration against SOPA and PIPA, the controversial projects that aim to censor the web. The protest will take place on Wednesday 18 January and a total duration of 24 hours.

    The notification was confirmed by Jimmy Wales via Twitter. “Attention students! Do their homework in advance. On Wednesday Wikipedia protest against a bad law “, published the founder of The Free Encyclopedia. During the blockade, the site will display a message requesting a call to action by the Internet.

    should be clear that the outage will be officially implemented sites only Wikipedia English . The German version displays a banner with information about SOUP, while the other language editions will be free to make their own decisions. Chances are that all sites are part of the protest, although not a total blockade.

    The English edition of Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website in the world behind Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and Baidu. In addition to moving traffic estimated 25 million visits a day , if all users of The Free Encyclopedia answer the call to action, in charge of defining the future of soup and will be hard pressed PIPA.

    the duration of the outage Wikipedia will provide the necessary communication channels for Internet phone call and write letters to Congress. The desire for Wales is that users “melt the phone system in Washington ‘. Do you get

    Track | Wikimedia Foundation | Mashable | Venture Beat.

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    few weeks ago appeared on Wikipedia traditional grant request messages , which are the mainstay of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization responsible for the encyclopedia online.

    completes wikimedia Wikipedia fundraising campaign

    That campaign has now ended as officials announce the Foundation, which also details some results of the campaign. For example, has been raised 20 million dollars more than one million individuals in virtually every country in the world.

    In the last three years the number of donors has been multiplied by 10 , and the amount collected with these grants has increased by 4.

    annual plan for the academic year 2011-2012 Wikipedia, Wikimedia have estimated operating expenses of $ 28.3 million , most of which are obtained through the campaign grants, although there are some organizations that support their efforts.

    These new financial resources will be used to maintain and improve the hardware , in addition to mobile services and advocacy for the community of Wikimedia volunteers .