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Wiki Awards
Time to celebrate again! The MERLOT Africa Network (MAN) will pay tribute to WikiEducator at eLearning Africa as an inaugural recipient of the awards for Exemplary Open Education Resource (OER) practices. Our community will be [[media:MANeLA_Wikieducator_2008.pdf|acknowledged]] for the "pioneering role of the WikiEducator project as a model of content authoring and professional development that supports the OER movement".

Wiki Nominations
WikiEducator has made the nomination list for the "Best Educational Wiki 2008" on the Edublog awards listing

Best Educational Wiki 2008 by Edublog

WikiNews
GNU project releases new version of license to allow Wikimedia projects to switch to Creative Commons license, November 5, 2008 GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 Released