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Wikipedia’s ‘Goan war’ entry unmasked as elaborate hoax
It went undetected for five years on Wikipedia, but now a seemingly meticulous entry about a 17th century conflict between colonial Portugal and India’s Maratha empire has been outed as a hoax. “The Bicholim Conflict” of 1640-41, described in detail in the online piece assessed as a “good article”, has…
Wikipedia losing English-language editors: study
Wikipedia, one of the world’s biggest websites, is losing many of its English-language editors, crippling its ability to keep pace with its mission as a source of knowledge online, a study says. The study led by Aaron Halfaker of the University of Minnesota found that the number of “collaborators” or…
Wikipedia sees future — and threat — in cell phones
Cell phones could be Wikipedia’s path to global domination, but may also pose a risk to the crowdsourcing culture the online encyclopedia relies on, chief executive Sue Gardner says. On one hand, says Gardner, who is also executive director of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, cell phones are by far the…
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales blasts UK Internet snooping
Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder, has sharply criticised the government’s so-called “snooper’s charter”, which will track the internet, text and email use of all British citizens, as “technologically incompetent”. Wales said that Wikipedia would move to encrypt all its connections with Britain if UK internet companies, such as Vodafone and…
Wikipedia blackout caused by accidental cable slice in Florida
Wikipedia was inaccessible globally for a couple of hours on Monday after someone accidentally cut through fibre cables connecting its servers in Florida. The online encyclopedia was down for about two hours on Monday afternoon after the mishap near its worldwide data centre in Tampa, Florida. The site was brought…
Wikipedia hits defining moment in social Web era
Wikipedia, the public knowledge website, is more than a decade old and remains among the top 10 Internet sites in the world, but some say it is becoming old and dowdy. Others want to keep it that way. At the “Wikimania” event held in Washington over the past week, several…
Russian Wikipedia shuts down in protest of Internet censorship bill
The Russian-language Wikipedia website shut down for a day Tuesday and symbolically blacked out its logo in protest at a bill that would allow the state to block access to blacklisted websites. “Imagine a world without free knowledge,” it said in a statement on its otherwise white main page, saying…
Wikipedia founder slams SOPA/PIPA: ‘Not the right bill’
Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia, said on CNN last night that he commends efforts to stop online piracy, but cautioned that the measures in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) simply go too far. “I’m a big believer that we…
Wikipedia to blackout in protest of anti-piracy bills
The world’s largest encyclopedia will go dark on Wednesday in a dramatic protest against two anti-piracy bills being considered by the U.S. Congress, Wikipedia announced on Monday. Concerned that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, might deal severe damage to…
Annual Wikipedia fundraising hits new high
SAN FRANCISCO — An annual Wikipedia fundraising campaign ended Tuesday with donors around the world pumping a record $20 million into the foundation that runs the free online knowledge repository. Non-profit Wikimedia Foundation launched the campaign in November, getting an early boost in the form of a $500,000 grant from…
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