Wikipedia founder appeals for donations
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has appealed to users to donate to the free online encyclopedia to ‘protect’ the site and the space in which it operates.
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has appealed to users to donate to the free online encyclopedia to ‘protect’ the site and the space in which it operates.
The English-language Wikipedia should have a system in place by December to vet anonymous edits for certain high-profile entries, according to the online encyclopedia's founder.
Sorry, ladies, but when it comes to questionable online information, it looks like men have the upper hand.
The innovative online encyclopedia Wikipedia is growing up, and with its growth comes a massive change to how it operates. Back in its early days, Wikipedia could be edited by anyone. Then it nixed the concept of anonymous edits and required authentication. Now contributors can write what they want, but if editing certain articles, the changes must be verified by an experienced volunteer before publication.
Wikipedia has launched an app for Apple's iPhone that converts the online encyclopedia's articles into a format that's easy to read on the smartphone.
An official Wikipedia application for the iPhone first saw the light of day today, giving users quick and easy access to oodles of information and hours of directionless fun.
The National Portrait Gallery has set off a legal fight against Wikipedia.
The federal government's Internet filters will be outpaced by the emergence of offensive Web pages and won't stop offensive material appearing in e-mail inboxes, according to the Internet Society of Australia.
A Chinese rival of Wikipedia that also lets users join groups and chat as they might on Facebook has drawn on those social elements to pull ahead of its competition.
The Wikimedia Foundation will change the terms under which it licenses the content in Wikipedia, the organization said Thursday.
The Wikimedia Foundation has signed a deal with French operator Orange to bring online encyclopedia Wikipedia to mobile phone users in France, the U.K., Spain and Poland.
A day after Encyclopaedia Britannica renewed its vow to make an online push, it became clear how steep of a climb it faces.
The English-language Wikipedia will test a new policy of checking user contributions to certain high-profile entries before publishing them.
The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software.
Wikipedia is gearing up for an explosion in digital content with new servers and storage designed to handle larger photo and video uploads.