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Meta launches Sphere, an AI knowledge tool based on open web content, used initially to verify citations on Wikipedia
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…
Google and the Internet Archive are the first customers to gain commercial access to Wikipedia content
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…
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New Vector scores $8.5M to plug more users into its open, decentralized messaging Matrix
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…
Wikipedia blames malicious DDoS attack after site goes down across Europe, Middle East
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,…
The Markup, a tech-focused investigative news site, raises $20 million from Craigslist founder
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 some big donors including Craigslist…
Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’
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…
Wikipedia wasn’t aware of YouTube’s conspiracy video plan
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…
Craig Newmark puts $500K towards reducing harassment on Wikipedia
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 moderators use…
Wikimedia Sues NSA Over Mass Surveillance
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 search and seizure…
Hoping To Engage More Readers, Wikipedia Rolls Out A Redesigned Mobile App
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 design, the…
Wikipedia, the decentralized community-powered encyclopedia, is now accepting donations in bitcoin, the decentralized community-powered cryptocurrency. The Wikimedia Foundation partnered with Coinbase to process the donations. Also new today, Coinbase will…
Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales Accidentally Starts A Bitcoin Donation Campaign For Wikipedia
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…
India’s Indigenous Languages Drive Wikipedia’s Growth
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 Raises $25M In Donations Over 9 Days
Wikimedia Foundation announced today that it raised $25 million from more than 1.2 million donors during its 2012 fundraiser, which ran on English-language Wikipedia in five countries (the U.S., Canada,…
Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million From 1 Million+ Donors
Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other sites, this morning announced that they’ve raised $20 million from more than a million donors, shattering a record once again.…
The State Of Wikipedia (Video + Infographic)
Wikipedia just celebrated its tenth birthday. As a self-proclaimed fan of the site, I wanted to share with you this video, made for the occasion as Wikipedia enters its second…
Wikipedia Still $1M Short Of Fundraising Goal For 2010 (And Why I Donated)
It’s the last day of the year, according to the Gregorian calendar at least, which prompted me to do some research on how well Wikipedia’s fundraising efforts for 2010 were…
Wikipedia Gets A Revamp, Better Search And Navigation – And An Updated Logo
Wikipedia is easily one of the most visited sites in the world, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change anytime soon. This morning, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a…
Facebook Is Now the Fourth Largest Site In The World
The global rise of Facebook is nothing less than astounding. In the month of June alone it gained 24 million unique visitors worldwide, compared to the month before, for a…
The French Come Calling For Wikipedia (Orange Strikes Mobile Deal)
France Telecom’s Orange, one of the biggest mobile phone operators in Europe, has partnered with Wikimedia to provide Wikipedia content through co-branded channels on Orange’s mobile phones and web sites.…
WikiPock Will Put An Entire Copy Of Wikipedia In Your Pocket For $10
Would you pay $10 for an entire offline copy of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia of information that you can get on the Web for free? WikiPock, a Paris-based startup, has…
Print Your Favorite Wikipedia Articles As Books, Courtesy Of PediaPress
Did you know that you can assemble your own wiki pages from Wikipedia and print them out in book form? You can, for a while now, thanks to a partnership…
Mozilla Gives $100,000 Grant Towards An Open Video Format For The Web
The Mozilla Foundation is putting its weight behind an effort to create an open video format on the Web. It is doing this by giving $100,000 in grant money, to…
10 Millionth Article Written on Wikipedia
The ten millionth article has been written on Wikipedia – a Hungarian biography of of 16th century painter Nicholas Hilliard (English version here). Those ten million articles have been written…
$3 Million Donation For The Sum Of All Human Knowledge
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which operates Wikipedia, announced a $3 million donation from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today. The donation will be paid ratably over three years.…