BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

21/06/2007

Viaden Media: Hand in Hand with Wikipedia

MINSK, Belarus, June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Along with Web 2.0 technologies' appearance, social networking web sites have become of great importance in the present context of online business development. Viaden Media (http://www.viaden.com), member of W3C (http://www.w3c.org) since 2006 and member of High Technologies Park of Belarus (http://www.park.by) since 2007, is sure it is extremely important to develop modern online society through dynamic content generation. Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) can be considered one of the brightest examples of open source web sites, and one of the largest reliable informative knowledge databases covering all the spheres of human activities. Moreover, tools and free software designed by Wikipedia can be widely applied to planning online project development. These new methods should be in each progressive company use.

"We have a profound respect for Wikipedia. They found a way to unite people from all over the world, to make them communicate with each other, to share great ideas and finally to contribute into the human knowledge treasury," says Katsia Chaikouskaya, international manager at Viaden Media. "Viaden Media specialists use free MediaWiki software as a repository of knowledge collected during company activity. It can be considered a kind of Viaden Media Library where any specialists can find answers to any question. As a result Wikipedia saves our time, and it helps us to be well posted on the most recent events and react accordingly. We are proud to be among Wikipedia's associates (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors) and we will maintain any of Wikipedia's undertakings."

Wikipedia community keeps growing up, opening more and more opportunities for society. On May 22, 2007, almost 5 million articles in 105 different languages were published on Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a number of sister projects, which include: Wiktionary (a free dictionary), Wikibooks (free textbooks), Wikiquote (a free encyclopedia of quotations), Wikisource (a repository of source texts that are in the public domain), Wikispecies (directory of species), Wikiversity (free learning materials and activities), Meta-Wiki (Wikimedia project coordination), and Wikinews (free-content news).

Victor Viaden, General Director of Viaden Media, will attend the third annual international Wikimedia conference. "The coming Wikimania 2007, the International Wikimedia Congress, held in Taipei from August 3 to 5, which is both a scientific conference and a community event, brings together members of various Wikimedia projects in order to exchange ideas, build relationships, and report on research and project efforts. It will help us a lot to obtain further insight into new tendencies of online society development," says Mr. Viaden.

Source:

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3573/