Facebook may be infamous for helping to usher in the era of “fake news”, but it’s also tried to find a place for itself in the follow-up: the never-ending battle to combat it. In the
Google is going to start paying for its use of Wikipedia information to help power its knowledge panels in Google Search. The search giant, along with the digital library the Internet Archive, are the
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New Vector, a European startup founded in 2017 by the creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix to drive adoption and grow an ecosystem around an alternative messaging p
Wikipedia was forced offline in several countries Friday after a cyber attack hit the global encyclopedia. Users across Europe and parts of the Middle East experienced outages shortly before 7pm, BST,
Celebrated former ProPublica investigative journalists Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson are launching their newest venture, the investigative nonprofit news organization called The Markup, with help from
The Wikimedia Foundation has sounded a stark warning against a copyright reform proposal in Europe that’s due to be voted on by the European Parliament next week. (With the mild irony that it
YouTube has a plan to combat the abundant conspiracy theories that feature in credulous videos on its platform; not a very good plan, but a plan just the same. It’s using information drawn from
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has donated half a million dollars towards Wikipedia's "Community health initiative," aimed at reducing harassment and vandalism on the site and improve the tools mode
The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit behind the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced it's suing the U.S. National Security Agency and Department of Justice over the "large-scale s
The Wikimedia Foundation is rolling out a new version of its Wikipedia mobile application beginning this afternoon, which offers an improved reading experience, better search and an image-centric desi
Wikipedia, the decentralized community-powered encyclopedia, is now accepting donations in bitcoin, the decentralized community-powered cryptocurrency. The Wikimedia Foundation partnered with Coinbase
Is Jimmy Wales testing out Bitcoin donations for Wikipedia? He is certainly considering it, according to a thread on Reddit. It first started with a tweet — Wikipedia co-founder set up a persona
Despite accommodating the world's second largest English-speaking population behind the United States, India's dozens of indigenous languages are driving the adoption of Wikipedia on the subcontinent
Wikimedia Foundation <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/27/wikimedia-foundation-raises-25-million-in-record-time-during-2012-fundraiser/">announced today</a> that it raised $25
<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wikimedia-foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, the non-profit organization that operates <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> and
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<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/product/wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> just <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/15
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It's the last day of the year, according to the Gregorian calendar at least, which prompted me to do some research
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/wikipedia1.png" /><a href="http://wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> is easily one of the most visited sites in the world, and it doesn't look like
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