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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 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 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 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
Downloads Wikipedia is a widget that will allow you to search and view the Wikipedia articles on your desktop. Currently supported languages are English, Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[December 11, 2007, 11:00]
Wikipedia: Fitting The Open Source Framework
News The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is often referred to as an open source project because it is written, edited and policed by a global group of volunteers. However, the open source label doesn't really fit Wikipedia.
[December 13, 2005, 13:55]
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 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.
[June 15, 2005, 7:49]
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 Lookup Extension
Downloads Lookups up the selected word in the Wikipedia encyclopedia in the language specified in your user preferences. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[January 22, 2008, 11:51]
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 Toolbar For IE
Downloads The new Wikipedia Toolbar allows you to search and access Wikipedia content from anywhere on the Web. Wikipedia toolbar is easy to install and guaranteed spy-ware free. It also includes our unique Privacy Protector with pop-up blocker, cookie...
[May 29, 2006, 18:16]
Wikipedia Screensaver
Downloads The Wikipedia screensaver loads random pages from Wikipedia every 30 seconds or so. Features include: Configurable time delay between each page load; Can automatically kill IE and Firefox browsers on activation; Can be configured to kill any other...
[April 13, 2007, 7:16]
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 Search
Downloads Search Wikipedia from your desktop. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[September 10, 2007, 12:50]
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 Search Bar
Downloads Created to simplify the search in Wikipedia and in Google, this tools is a perfect add on for every Wikipedia's fan. Search in Wikipedia from anywhere, at any time. Devolutions Search Bar is a small toolbar integrated in Internet Explorer.
[May 30, 2006, 4:31]
Wikipedia Racks Up One Million Articles
News The team behind Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, is celebrating after the English version of Wikipedia racked up its one millionth article. Wikipedia was created in January 2001 and almost immediately proved extremely...
[March 2, 2006, 10:25]
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]
