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Wikipedia has managed to raise the $16 million in donations it set out to less than two months ago. The site's most ambitious goal to date was reached in record time and Wikipedia and its sister sites should be well funded for 2011. As an added benefit, we can finally enjoy a Wikipedia without Jimmy Wales' ... |
3 January 2011
05:39 GMT |
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On November 13th, Wikipedia launched its yearly fund-raising campaign by placing a dedicated banner on top of all pages. On the last day of the year, it appears that their target of $16 million has not been reached, being less than $1 million short.In order to gather the aforementioned amount, Jimmy Wales, the found... |
1 January 2011
01:32 GMT |
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Wikipedia has made it official, this year's fundraiser is underway. And if you thought last year's goal of $7.5 million, a $1.5 million increase of the previous year's one, was ambitious, Wikipedia is aiming for the fences in 2010, trying to raise $16 million for the site's 10-year anniversary. "T... |
15 November 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Wikipedia has kicked off 2010's donation campaign and this year the Wikimedia foundation is sticking to what works best, a personal message from the site and foundation's founder Jimmy Wales. The foundation hasn't made any announcement yet, but the banner has been live, in places around the world, at l... |
13 November 2010
05:46 GMT |
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Wikia, the for profit wiki project created by the co-founder of Wikipedia, is getting a big revamp today with the launch of the so-called Wikia 2.0. The new site comes with a fresh new look, at least for the common pages, and a number of new features that should make it more appealing to a larger audience.One of the ... |
10 November 2010
11:59 GMT |
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A new free and open source tool from Microsoft Research is designed to leverage crowdsourcing in order to build multilingual content on Wikipedia. WikiBhasha Beta is currently available for download from the Redmond company, and can be used in order to expand the number of languages in which Wikipedia content is ava... |
18 October 2010
09:49 GMT |
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Wikipedia has been pushing video content for the past few months encouraging contributors to add video data to entries. It recently rolled out a HTLM5 video editor for use on the site. Apparently, Wikipedia's actions proved successful, so much so that the site is now worrying about the all the bandwidth video co... |
27 September 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Support for video files on Wikipedia has been "coming" for quite some time now, but, just like most Wikipedia projects, progress has been rather slow. While the platform now fully supports video content, adoption has been slow. There are plans to raise awareness of the feature and the new HMTL5 web-based video sequen... |
24 September 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Wikipedia is now running a limited test enabling readers and users to rate articles in some key aspects. This, Wikipedia believes will drive engagement and provide valuable and accurate feedback to developers. The basic principle behind Wikipedia is that anyone can edit or add content. The idea, when the site first... |
24 September 2010
02:56 GMT |
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Wikipedia is currently experiencing problems and can be unavailable at times. The site has tracked down the issue to a filled-up hard drive and is currently looking at ways to resolve this. “At 10:57 UTC, the master database server for s3 (the cluster that holds most of our wikis) had a full disk and stopped wr... |
7 August 2010
07:40 GMT |
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Wikipedia is no stranger to all manner of lawsuits. Being one of the largest websites in the world and relying exclusively on contributors for content has its risks. But getting a notice from a British museum is one thing, getting one from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is quite another. Surprisingly tho... |
3 August 2010
06:06 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the largest sites on the web, yet its latest plans are more ambitions than ever. It wants to double its audience in the next few years, but for that it has to expand on the content already available. One way it can do this is by having more content in less used languages. And it’s getting so... |
15 July 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sophos warn that the 2010 FIFA World Cup page on Wikipedia has been defaced today to include a big link directing users to pharmacy spam. It seems that Wikipedia is struggling to prevent spammers from editing the page, which so far has been modified several times.The numbers are still coming... |
14 July 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, yet, unlike pretty much every other website its size, it has no direct revenue. Operated by Wikimedia, a non-profit organization, all of the site’s funding comes from donations. Operating a top 10 site is not cheap, though, and Wikimedia has struggled ... |
10 July 2010
05:59 GMT |
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People wanting to visit Wikipedia, or any other site associated with the Wikimedia foundation which runs the online encyclopedia, several hours ago were greeted by an error message. All the sites, including the top ten web destination Wikipedia, were down due to what were later revealed to be power failures at its da... |
5 July 2010
05:42 GMT |
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One of Wikipedia’s biggest advantages, the ability for anyone to edit any page, is also one of its biggest drawbacks. The site is constantly facing vandalism or users with personal agendas. Trying to keep the content on the site objective is a daunting task and some of the more controversial pages and topics ar... |
15 June 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Wikipedia is getting ready to roll out a major redesign that has been in the works for over a year now. There are plenty of changes, among the most noticeable are the brand-new theme, a much-needed refresh over the current aging design, a revamped logo and plenty of usability changes. The redesign has been in testin... |
13 May 2010
09:16 GMT |
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For all the scare-mongering about books and reading, first, the TV should have killed them, now it’s the Internet, people seem to be doing a lot more reading than ever before. Still, all the content online has spoiled us and we’ve come to expect being able to access any information at any time. Luckily, t... |
7 May 2010
06:24 GMT |
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Facebook is getting ready for its annual developer conference, f8, scheduled for later this week, and it has already started rolling out new features and announcements. First up, Facebook is officially announcing Community Pages, after being launched quietly a couple of weeks ago. At the same time, Facebook is revamp... |
20 April 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Wikipedia is getting ready to launch a redesign that has been in the works for several months now. The new theme, dubbed Vector, is much more pleasing to the eye than the current design, but is also more ergonomic and focuses on several things that should make the site easier to use. The new theme will be rolled out ... |
26 March 2010
05:10 GMT |
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It was a bad day for huge websites today, as both Wikipedia and YouTube experienced problems that made them unavailable for plenty of users for more than an hour. The issues at Wikipedia have been linked to an overheating problem at one of the European data centers, while Google has yet to clarify the YouTube issue. ... |
25 March 2010
11:41 GMT |
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Videos on Wikipedia have been an option for some time now but so far adoption has been pretty slow and the vast majority of Wikipedia entries don't have any video files associated. This is the reason why the Open Video Alliance and other parties are launching a campaign, called "Let’s Get Video on Wikipedi... |
18 March 2010
11:34 GMT |
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We can safely say now that the world of today is a lot different than it was a century ago. This is especially true when it comes to information sources, and also the amount of data available to all people. In the past, publications such as the New York Times and the Encyclopedia Britannica were setting the norm when... |
18 February 2010
03:23 GMT |
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Wikipedia is such an integral part of the web that most people don't even give it a second thought anymore. And much like everything else online, the site is completely free and available to anyone. Unlike most other sites, Wikipedia doesn't have advertising, there isn't a Wikipedia Pro, and has no oth... |
17 February 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the world and one of the most heavily trafficked. Yet, it doesn't have much of a revenue stream, in the traditional sense, and sticking to its core principles with all the content being available for everyone for free and with no advertising. Instead, it's maki... |
4 January 2010
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Wikipedia is in the midst of its sixth annual fund raiser to keep the site going. Run by the Wikimedia foundation, a non-profit organization, and with no revenue source of any kind, Wikipedia relies solely on donations to finance its operations and pay its 35 employees. The 2009 fund raiser has been running for more... |
18 December 2009
05:28 GMT |
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There are a lot of metrics for website traffic, unique visitors, user numbers, and the likes. Measuring a website's “influence” is a harder proposition though, it's not exactly something you can count. Some people beg to differ though and ://URLFAN aims to do just this, measure a website's... |
25 November 2009
05:47 GMT |
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News about Wikipedia's impending demise have come and gone, but the world's largest encyclopedia seems to be enduring. This won't last for long, according to a researcher from Spain who points at the dwindling number of volunteer editors as a clear sign that the site is headed to the dust bin. The stud... |
23 November 2009
11:58 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and, for good reason, the encyclopedia has become the best single place online to find any kind of information from science facts to TV show trivia. But the site, unlike many online services, is not commercial, meaning that the growing costs of infrastructur... |
11 November 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Google Custom Search is now three years old and to mark the occasion the search giant has introduced a couple of new features and a brand-new Custom Search Wikipedia Skin that enables users to extend the functionality of the built-in Wikipedia search. The skin comes with quite a few enhancements but it's unfortu... |
27 October 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s for-profit initiative that allows users to create their own wikis on any subject matter they fancy, has been seeing strong growth in the last six months and is now profitable. In the past year, user numbers have more than doubled, going from 2.8 million unique visitors in ... |
9 September 2009
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A study conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation and the United Nations University program, MERIT, has shown that, from 175,000 users with valid survey responses, 53,884 have acknowledged contributing to Wikipedia, 87% of them being male responders. Also from the total users that only read Wikipedia articles, 31% of the... |
8 September 2009
05:35 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Wikipedia managed to amass more than three million articles; this week is Wikimedia Commons' turn to take the glory. A scan of a 1838 Danish newspaper called Kjobenhavnsposten was uploaded by user Saddhiyama to the Commons image repository, thus marking the fifth million file uploaded by a user.... |
3 September 2009
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Wikipedia has become one of the biggest websites and one of the most relied-upon sources of information. Many critics, though, point at the site's problems with inaccuracies, vandalism, biased content and the likes and say that it's far from a reliable source of information. While this isn't representa... |
31 August 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Larry Sanger, one of the wiz kids that founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales in 2001, has recognized in a Citizendium mailing list that he's thinking about resigning as Editor-in-Chief from his current position to work more on his newest project, entitled WatchKnow.After working and founding web-encyclopedias... |
26 August 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Wikipedia has grown to become by far the biggest encyclopedia in the world, with over three million articles, one of the top ten sites online and the first place where many people look for information. Its huge growth in popularity is in no small part due to its egalitarian nature and the fact that everyone could edi... |
25 August 2009
07:02 GMT |
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The Wikimedia Foundation has finally released a Wikipedia standalone app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Distributed for free via the iTunes App Store, Wikipedia Mobile is described as focusing on simplicity and speed. While Wikipedia Mobile is, indeed, simple and easy to use, the app doesn’t award the latter ac... |
19 August 2009
06:24 GMT |
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While some are quick to predict Wikipedia's collapse, as the number of new articles added has been going down in recent years, the site actually celebrated the creation of its 3 millionth English article several hours ago. The article is an entry on a Norwegian actress and film director named Beate Eriksen, and ... |
17 August 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Wikipedia, one of the biggest web sites in the world, is getting ready for a new, fresher look and has launched the proposed redesign in beta. As expected from one of the most recognizable sites online, the changes aren't groundbreaking but they do make for a cleaner and more modern look. The new design is avail... |
10 August 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Wikipedia has become one of the biggest sites in the world and many users rely on it almost everyday either for school and even research, but also other less educational purposes. It's hard to imagine how the web looked like before Wikipedia, but a new study revealed some troubling statistics showing that the si... |
5 August 2009
11:47 GMT |
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The legal dispute between the British National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of London and a Wikipedia contributor, American Derrick Coetzee, has taken a new turn as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an international non-profit organization that fights for freedom of speech with a focus on “digital rights,&rdq... |
4 August 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Wikipedia, one of the largest and most visited sites in the world, is currently unavailable for most users, with the site displaying an error message. As you'd expect, Twitter is alright, with many predicting doom and gloom, but very little actual information, the real-time web at its finest. In fact, the downti... |
31 July 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Over the years, as more and more homes started getting access to computers and the Internet, a shift was recorded in the classical sources people turned to in order to get their medical information. Rather than visiting the doctor's office, many people now prefer browsing for a response to their questions online... |
29 July 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Wikipedia is a constant source of controversy coming as a natural side effect of the openness and the number of different ideas and opinions trying to coexist on the site. If it isn't scientologists, it's public institutions that are getting roused up by the organization. And now some vocal groups of psycho... |
29 July 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Those still skeptic about the reliability of the content on Wikipedia will have one less argument now that a new partnership between the US National Institutes of Health and the Wikimedia Foundation was put in place. The aim is to have the scientists at NIH contribute content and overview some of the entries from the... |
22 July 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Last week, the National Portrait Gallery in London sent a Wikipedia user a letter threatening legal action after he uploaded 3,300 photos of paintings housed at the state-owned gallery. While the legality of the claims is debatable, Wikipedia has now issued its own statement backing the user and accusing the gallery ... |
18 July 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Wikipedia has been working on video support for years now, but the rumors about an impending launch are intensifying. And now, Erik Moller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is saying that the new feature is coming very soon in the coming months, and that there are already some pages with video content ena... |
18 July 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Yesterday, July 16th, members and contributors for the Wikimedia Foundation, owners of Wikipedia, met with National Institute of Health (NIH) representatives to discuss the portrayal of health and medical information on the above mentioned online encyclopedia. The event, included in the Wikimedia Academy program for ... |
17 July 2009
08:43 GMT |
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A Wikipedia user who uploaded thousands of photos of portraits from the British National Portrait Gallery in London is now apparently threatened with legal actions by the museum. The user is accused of downloading thousands of high-resolution photos from the National Gallery's website and then making them availa... |
13 July 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Wikimedia Foundation has just received a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support its Wikimedia Commons project. The money will go into research, to find the reasons keeping some users from participating, as well as into redesigning the upload process.“The global community that is building Wikimedia C... |
3 July 2009
09:48 GMT |
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