• InfoToday.com’s piece on What to Do With Wikipedia is good.
• Economist.com also has an excellent peice - The battle for Wikipedia’s soul ~~ MarkDilley
• I created a new “Domain Box” to replace the one that was cobbled together for the platform update last week. If you want to see how it looks on a variety of use cases, here’s some pages:
  • AboutUs.org — Full domain info, with map, registrar and badges
  • MartinDenker.dk — Barren domain info, no map, registrar or badges
  • AugustaMed.com — Domain info includes registrar but no map
  • OregonLive.com — Domain info includes map but no registrar info
• The new Domain Box has already started to appear on Domain pages, but it will take awhile to update the cached versions of pages (right now, clicking “Random Page” show the new box on about 10-20% pages, this will increase to probably 90% over the weekend). If you’re seeing a page with the old domain box, simply click “edit” and then save the page (with or without any changes). This will update the cached version of the page. — TakKendrick | talk 17:02, 28 March 2008 (PDT)
• Congrats to the Wikimedia Foundation - Institutional support of $3 million to Wikimedia Foundation over three years will support organizational growth and technical innovation.
• This Saturday, the 29th, is Startupalooza.org in Portland, OR. AboutUs is participating. See the Silicon Florist post about it: Startupalooza: Join fellow startups to compare notes
• Beautiful Girls Video
• Congrats to the SEOcontest2008 UK Winners
• The Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia’s parent non-profit, is testing the capacity for a single user login across all of their projects. It’s currently available to sysops only, but should be open for all soon. This enables people to use a single login in potentially hundreds of wikis (there are eight larger Wikimedia project, but each has many language versions). Steven | talk to me 11:59, 26 March 2008 (PDT)
• We get an interested link from Turbott.net My Delicious Bookmarks…. ~~ 75.148.54.233
• The German website DoubleSlash.de has this great explanation of OpenID, using our website as an example - translation. ~~ 75.148.54.233
• Check out this open dialogue with domain registrar Name.com (AboutUs sponsor): DomainRegistrarTransfer. Very cool! TedErnst (talk)
• Pencoyd.com refers to th Jon Udell interview with Ward Cunningham — TedErnst (talk)
• This excellent video, Did You Know 2.0 - encourages me that the AboutUs wiki is a place that businesses and organizations can begin to enter a world that is coming quickly. ~~ MarkDilley
• Nice design at Wikia for edit (see UWEB) and version history, also nice placement of tabs to the left and right. [1] ~~ MarkDilley
• ChiefTech points out two interviews at his weblog ~~ MarkDilley
• From PanamaNewsBriefs.com: To Catch A Thief, quotes Udachu.com — TedErnst (talk)
• From Report-Gisol.com: “AboutUs.org/Gisol.com” - Was it you?, with a screenshot and link to Gisol.com. TedErnst (talk)
• Happy Friday everyone! To kick off this morning found an interesting page on WebWire.com =]. link –Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ]

• Congratulations to Michael Berkley and our friends at SplashCast for raising a $4MM Series A! - Ray | talk
• Among the things that the new (still under construction) “Domain Box” layout does was made the various badges show up a little weird, especially ones based on my initial template design. I fixed all the ones I knew about and added them to Category:AboutUsBadges.
  • This should fix the vast majority of badge issues in “Domain Boxes”. Especially where more than one badge (like VentureNW, PortlandTech or SeattleTech) were present.
  • Common issues that still happen are on pages with multiple badges where people added <br/> or <br /> tags to try to bludgeon a fix under the old “Domain Box”. To resolve these issues, just take out the <br/> tags.
  • The way badges now show really is forcing some more standard sizes for these so they play nice on pages with multiple badges. To accommodate this, I created better instructions on badges, which is also on the Category:AboutUsBadges.

As there are likely to be more changes to the way badges happen in the future as we noodle with the “Domain Box”, please be sure to add the Category:AboutUsBadges category to your badge template (the code I propose on the category page includes this) so that in the event things change we can double check all the various badges. If you have any questions or problems with setting up your own badges, just let me know. — TakKendrick | talk 15:57, 20 March 2008 (PDT)

• Newsletter is set to send at 8am PST (see it here)

• Stewart Mader at his blog on wiki patterns calls Ward Cunningham (CTO of AboutUs) “undoubtedly the hero of the wiki world” in his post Ward Cunningham interviewed by Jon Udell — TedErnst (talk)
• From the wonderful GeekCulture.com comes this cartoon on editing your own entry in Wikipedia - not an issue at AboutUs ~~ MarkDilley
• Brianna Laugher notices that we are working with screencasts, look forward to what that possible collaboration brings. ~~ MarkDilley

• The P2PVINE.com gets it!! The Ultimate In File Sharing Website List’s ~~ MarkDilley
• NickBouton.com mentions: From Wikipedia to AboutUs.org, there are a variety of wikis out there where you can get yourself listed. - although Wikipedia has several vetting philosophies: you must be notable, i.e. referenced from various sources and you shouldn’t add info about your self or organization. ~~ MarkDilley

• Wow, good post and he’s local, thanks for finding this Mark. –Simon | talk 13:50, 18 March 2008 (PDT)

• We’ve been logging companies in the real estate industry, in Category:RealEstatePortal; today we added number 200.  :: Kasey
• On the web;
  • SiliconFlorist.com reposts the Techvibes.com listing: Portland Start-up Index for March 2008: AboutUs retains top spot,
  • Simb.net mentions Portland Web Innovators March Meeting
  • A question about the information at PowerTeamNetwork.com why do they have us at 20,133 Alexa ranking?] and
  • We are mentioned in the Greek weblog: GreekLIS.org Ποια και πόσα Wikis τελικά υπάρχουν? ~~ MarkDilley
• Featured wikipage DiaperCakewalk.com was Influenced by a client of theirs to which the site owner LaneyJane responded handsomely. Need tips on handing client feedback? See What if you have been Influenced. ~~ Saad
• Had a little fun building this out- Category:By Decade. I am kinda intrigued about StructuredCategories as a way to give people a way to travel through the site, got interested at Wikipedia, what category traveling tools would work here? Does the By decade work? ~~ MarkDilley

• An essay on using templates ~~ MarkDilley
• On the web last month: WebDesignSEO.com - how can you use a Wiki as part of your marketing effort? ~~ MarkDilley
• Via AXcessNews.com - Can’t find it on the Web? Try AboutUs.org ~~ MarkDilley
• Via TechCrunch - Freebase alpha launches ~~ MarkDilley
• Welcome Teresa Dabbelt, Rockie Mitchell, NewsomeTeamRealEstate.com and Mike Kelly Jr. the newest members of the Real Estate Portal. — Kasey
• ConversationsNetwork.org Interviews with Innovators: Creating Wiki Cultures Ward Cunningham ~~ MarkDilley
• Category: Vancouver Tech is Done Done! Mehrunnisa

• MyWOT.comis an interesting site, kind of doing what we do in a certain way…? ~~ MarkDilley
• ChrisWaterGuy of Appropedia.org loves our use of WikiBoxes and incorporates one into his own wiki. –Sa’ad ^{talk|email|chat} 06:31, 13 March 2008 (PDT)
• Finally - we’re going for a new badge for the RealEstate portal. Check outRealEstateBadge if you want to vote! –VartanSimonian
  • Awesome work! Obed Suhail
• JanetLeeJohnson.com and not live blogging: SEMpdx Not Live Blogging ~~ MarkDilley

• Great post on Blogschmog.net -TweetSpeak and a mention at Xnations.com About YOU Xnations! ~~ MarkDilley
• Via FeedFlare.ca from last month: Building relevant back links using Wiki pages. ~~MarkDilley
• Version 2.02 of the Preview and Save screencast is up. Hope you like it. TedErnst (talk)

• Finding AboutUs through Genexbs.com,Zeeshan Hasan of ZeeshanHasan Design Studio today wrote i got listed on aboutUs.org.
• via PortlandTribune.com is this piece:Startup mines for riches in collaboration software ~~ MarkDilley
• An excellent Genexbs.com post About AboutUs.org ~~ MarkDilley
• New screencast today: How to use RecentChanges – TedErnst (talk)

• The Open Source Church .org lists AboutUsin their Web 2.0 Apps ~~ MarkDilley
• New screencast is up: How to use History –TedErnst (talk)
• support for multiple addresses to be shown on both the domain page, as well as the address intersect tool has been provided! Please check out the following pages: greatixample.com, greatixample2.com, and OnePlaceToShowThemAll. Arif Iqbal and Umar Sheikh

• BattelleMedia.com has this post: A Brief Interview with Michael Wesch (The Creator of That Wonderful Video…) ~~ MarkDilley
• Lots of Real Estate industry edits this week. See: here Kasey
• Another new screencast today: How to Search — TedErnst (talk)
• I’m sure many of you have noticed the ad for new AboutUs Sponsor Name.com recently. Please check out their wiki page and their website, and feel free to make some edits! Steven | talk to me
  • They also have a wiki. ~~ MarkDilley
• New screencast today: Preview and Save. TedErnst (talk)

• In a Google search for DailyBuzz - SourceWatch.org is number three and they have a couple of ConnectedWiki within their wiki - TobaccoWiki. Interesting. ~~ MarkDilley
• A weblog post - Google to Earth: Site is the word du jour. ~~ MarkDilley
• Jon Udell, who did the famous Heavy Metal Umlaüt, writes a post regarding: Ward Cunningham’s Visible Workings ~~ MarkDilley
• Sweet, 11BravoTech.com mentions AboutUs - Ray | talk

From the DailyBuzz:

- 7 ways to research a company or brand online - AboutUs.org is one of 8 in #5. TedErnst (talk)

- With all the screencasting we’ve been doing lately and plan on doing in the near future, Kaltura sure seems like a great option. Here’s a BoingBoing post from January about the Kaltura / Wikimedia collaboration. - TedErnst (talk)

The Lakota Indians just withdrew from all treaties with the United States (via FoxNews.com). It’s not showing up on Google News front page. Important news, but something that doesn’t directly impact many people. I wonder about Gnews and blogs driving news reporting…it seems to leave big holes just like old media, often in similar places. -Peteforsyth 12:17, 21 December 2007 (PST)

• Not sure if this is accurate, but I found this map showing the territory possibly in question. - Ray | talk