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The founder of Wikipedia has announced a new partnership with Hewlett-Packard's MagCloud printing service.
The organization behind Wikipedia is getting a $2 million commitment from a philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that has drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.
When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.
Researchers are suggesting that doctors could be spending more time writing and editing Wikipedia pages on medical topics, despite questions that have been raised about the collaborative online encyclopedia's credibility.
When checking facts with Wikipedia it helps to know who edited the entry last.
Day one for the oft-described “first tech-savvy” president of the United States tested the mettle of the World Wide Web. Simultaneous streaming video over the Internet was reportedly at its highest ever, thanks to those of us who chose the comfort of the office over a front-row seat to history and the risk of hypothermia at Washington D.C.’s National Mall.
The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its $6 million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008.
A judge declined Thursday to order Arkansas officials to reveal which state computers were used to edit Wikipedia entries about Gov. Mike Beebe, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and another former elected official.
British Internet users have been blocked from accessing an article on popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia over child pornography concerns, the country's Internet watchdog and Wikipedia said Saturday.
Concerned that many would-be contributors to Wikipedia are being scared away, the foundation that runs the Internet encyclopedia is getting an $890,000 grant to try to make the editing process more user-friendly.
The German-language portal to the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was back online Monday after a left-wing lawmaker dropped a legal complaint.
The German-language version of the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia is back online after a left-wing lawmaker dropped a legal complaint.
The nonprofit group that runs Wikipedia launched its annual appeal to donors Wednesday, seeking $6 million to cover the costs of the volunteer-created Internet encyclopedia. That figure would be a threefold increase from what the campaign raised last year.
In a move combining user-created online encyclopedias with the printed page, Germany's Bertelsmann AG will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of user-created entries on Wikipedia.
The nonprofit group behind Wikipedia, the mammoth Internet encyclopedia built by volunteers, is getting its largest donation ever — $3 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Virtually anyone can edit an entry on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. But its founder is finding it's not so easy to cover his tracks after a messy breakup with a TV personality and a dustup over his expenses began playing out on the Web.
The foundation that runs — and accepts donations for — the online encyclopedia Wikipedia neglected to do a basic background check before hiring a chief operating officer who had been convicted of theft, drunken driving and fleeing a car accident.
Some academics cringe when students turn to Wikipedia as a reference for term papers.
Two Associated Press journalists sued Arkansas officials Friday for allegedly violating the state's Freedom of Information Act by withholding information about which government computers were used to edit entries on Wikipedia.
A Japanese bureaucrat has been reprimanded for shirking his duties to make hundreds of Wikipedia contributions about toy robots, officials said Friday.
In the NBC series "The Office," the boss Michael Scott turned to Wikipedia for tips on fending off an employee's request for a pay raise. Viewers quickly flocked to the online encyclopedia and added their take to its entry on negotiations.
The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim doesn't seem particularly controversial — Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder.
Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.
Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers.
Conservapedia's project to eliminate 'liberal bias' in Bible is only one of this site's gems of ridiculousness...lost in conservative translation. The Conservapedia project to eliminate 'liberal bias' in the Bible is one of the shinier gems of ridiculousness from that website
Rethink using Wiki for citatations of "facts"... The 15 Biggest Wikipedia Blunders"11. John Seigenthaler helped assassinate John and Robert Kennedy.
Wikipedia Color-Codes for CredibilityIn a bid to become a more trustworthy source, Wikipedia will use color codes to indicate the reliability of an article's author. Called "WikiTrust," the optional feature will assign a color code to newly-edited text, based on the author's reputation.
Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy TextStarting this fall, you'll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called "WikiTrust" will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.
Science journal finds Wikipedia pretty accurateWikipedia, the encyclopedia that relies on volunteers to pen nearly 4 million articles, is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica, the journal Nature wrote in an online article published Wednesday.
There is no doubt that Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia written by participants from around the world, has changed the way we search for information on-line.
I just can't imagine people, young or old, reading articles in the Wikipedia, making it as their references, whether at work or in school, but merely getting misleading data or inaccurate information.
Wikipedia grows up, changes editorial policy | The News is NowPublic.com
Wikipedia to launch page controlsThe online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is on the cusp of launching a major revamp to how people contribute to some pages.
Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the livingWikipedia 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 nonprofit that runs the user-written online encyclopedia.
Wikipedia Will Limit Changes on Articles About Living People Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably improve, the content.
English Wikipedia hits three million articlesIt has taken more than eight years and the work of vast numbers of people around the world, but the English version of Wikipedia has finally amassed more than three million articles.
Has Wikipedia editing gone the way of government?Oh, Wikipedia. Have you really become just another political organization? BY CHRIS MATYSZCZYK
Testing times for Wikipedia after doctor posts secrets of the Rorschach inkblotsThe online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become embroiled in a bitter row with psychologists after a Canadian doctor posted answers to controversial tests on the site.
Wikipedia and the Church of ScientologyIts an opinion piece, dated 29 May, 2009, but interesting: "In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates."
Wikipedia's controversial video player coming soonWikipedia users will be getting new tools for uploading, editing, and viewing video very soon. According to a Beet.TV interview with Erik Moller, who is the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, we'll see all of these things shortly.
Police told to use Wikipedia for court preparationThe Crown Prosecution Service is telling police officers to use Wikipedia to prepare for court cases. Mike Finn, an expert witness on martial arts and weapons, told the Police Review he was involved in a case in the Midlands and asked to prepare a report on a weapon.
Tell Governor Sarah Palin that wearing fur is cruelThis photo was from Sarah Palin's official wikipedia page which has been revamped in the last few days (of course) and (of course) the photo has been removed.
Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with himHow many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it's just one -- if that one is Michael Jackson.
Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be FreeChris Anderson has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd.
Iconic Video from Tehran Protests Demands New Skills of JournalistsThe 40-second video from Tehran is gripping and brutal. It shows a young woman apparently dying in the street, blood suddenly pouring from her mouth and nose as those around her struggle frantically to save her.
Wikipedia turned into book Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by volunteers, has been turned into book which is 5,000 pages long and 1ft 7ins thick.
Wars of Words on Wikipedia's Outskirts IT is an interesting twist about Wikipedia that the most controversial, most heavily trafficked articles — on abortion, politics, virgin birth — are often the most accurate and vandalism-free. Not that people aren't trying to cause mayhem.
naked short selling is behind covered-up through manipulation of Wikipedia | Deep Capture: exposing the crime of naked short sellingAt "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit" it is as forbidden to add information such as that contained in the preceding articles as it would be to sell Adam Smith's works on the streets of Pyongyang.
Wikipedia bans Scientologists in propaganda rowPrecedent set by Wikipedia in banning IPs associated with Scientology from making changes to information on the website. This is the first time Wikipedia has targeted an organization for a ban.
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