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Wikipedia campaign raises over $6.2m
News Wikimedia has raised over $6.2m (£4.3m) for its Wikipedia project, the foundation has announced. Since a fundraising drive was launched in July by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, over 125,000 people have made donations to the online community...
[January 5, 2009, 15:57]
Wikipedia knocked off the Web
News Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia was unavailable for some of Wednesday due to technical difficulties with its servers. The free encyclopaedia, which can be edited by anyone and built on Wiki software, suffered a power failure, a Wikipedia spokesman...
[April 19, 2006, 17:30]
Wikipedia vows to improve quality
Talkback The best wikipedia can hope to be is a report of the status quo. It is not a place for original thought. Most likely - in order to keep 'the idiots' (Abusive terms are a useful substitute for thought) out, this thing will have to evolve into a...
[August 7, 2006, 17:56]
Wikipedia vows to improve quality
News Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has set the Wikimedia Foundation's sights on improving the quality of the online encyclopedia and expanding "free culture" to new projects and countries. The Wikimedia Foundation, where Wales is a board member, is a...
[August 7, 2006, 9:20]
Wikipedia used to spread malware
News A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. It's not clear how long the vandalised page was live for, but the editors of Wikipedia.de moved fast to delete the links once they were discovered.
[November 6, 2006, 11:42]
Wikipedia Widget
Downloads A Dashboard widget for browsing Wikipedia. Wikipedia pulls up entire wikipedia articles, complete with pictures, for viewing from the Dashboard. Wikipedia is compatible with any language wikipedia, just enter the 2 letter code on the back.
[September 29, 2009, 3:45]
Wikipedia
Downloads Search for and view wikipedia articles from the dashboard. Features: Compatible with any language wikipedia, just enter the 2 (sometimes 3 or more) letter code on the back. Click the 'wikipedia' button to the left of the search field to...
[June 12, 2007, 8:00]
Wikipedia to sign-off edits to articles on living people
News Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organisation that runs the user...
[August 25, 2009, 9:35]
Wikipedia censorship 'easy to evade'
News The blocking mechanism used to censor Wikipedia has been described as "fragile" and "easy to evade" by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton. Access to Wikipedia was restricted between 5 and 9 December after child-abuse watchdog the...
[December 11, 2008, 16:39]
Wikipedia needs help to keep growing
News The team running Wikipedia has urged the open source development community to lend their support to help the encyclopaedia project grow and to combat Web bots that are damaging its content. In the opening talk at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels...
[March 1, 2005, 14:40]
Wikipedia planning a DVD version
News The Wikipedia Foundation hopes to sell an English version of Wikipedia on CD-ROM and DVD before the end of the year. A boxed CD and DVD set of the German language version of Wikipedia has been available since last year.
[April 7, 2005, 17:05]
Wikipedia: fitting the open source framework
Talkback Nobody was more surprised that the New York Times' fact checkers were using Wikipedia than the regular Wikipedia contributors, as the Times is one of the sources regularly referenced in articles. I don't know how many ways Wikipedia can state that...
[December 13, 2005, 16:48]
Wikipedia and Yahoo announce alliance
News Yahoo plans to add functionality to Yahoo Search that will give people shortcuts to content from Wikipedia, the community-based encyclopaedia. The links to Wikipedia content will be displayed above search results, said Yahoo and the Wikimedia...
[April 8, 2005, 10:05]
Wikipedia and Experts-Exchange
Blog Experts-Exchange is one of the few sites with their own Wikipedia article. To make the article complete I added a link to this blog, but it was removed. Thinking I made an error I added the link again and it was removed again.
[March 22, 2009, 15:03]
Wikipedia accused of 'US-centric bias'
News An Australian academic has accused Wikipedia of "US-centric bias" over the way the online encyclopaedia's administrators edit user-generated entries. In an entry published for e-journal The National Forum, Tim Anderson, a senior lecturer in...
[February 12, 2008, 7:46]
Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'
News Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet. This will give students access to constantly updated course materials, just as Wikipedia has...
[January 22, 2008, 16:39]
Wikipedia blocked in China -- again
Blog Numbers of Chinese Internet-users are reporting that they can no longer connect to either the Chinese or English versions of the collaborative encyclopaedia Wikipedia. It is not yet possible to tell whether Wikipedia is unavailable because of a...
[November 17, 2006, 16:38]
Wikipedia gets custom interface
News The popularity of Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia to which anyone can contribute, is spawning a host of complementary tools and offshoots. One of them is called Gollum, a free Web application that creator Harald Hanek describes as a Wikipedia...
[November 30, 2005, 8:35]
Wikipedia under fire
News For Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, last week was a tough one. To critics of Wikipedia — which, in a spin on the open source model, lets anyone create and edit entries — the news was further proof that the service has no accountability and no place...
[December 5, 2005, 17:05]
Wikipedia review
Reviews And while Wikipedia's FAQs and tutorials are useful, be prepared to wait any length of time for a posted or emailed reply from fellow Wikipedians if you've posted questions to the help desk. As a completely free online reference source, the non...
[October 28, 2005, 15:40]
