Wikipedia's New App-Like Mobile Website Goes Live for All

Wikipedia's New App-Like Mobile Website Goes Live for All

The updated site had been in testing in beta up to now

Wikipedia Now Available for Free to 230 Million People on Their Phones

Wikipedia Now Available for Free to 230 Million People on Their Phones

The site has signed another partnership with a carrier to offer free access

Microsoft Mistakenly Asks Google to Ban Wikipedia, CNN and the US Government

Microsoft Mistakenly Asks Google to Ban Wikipedia, CNN and the US Government

The Redmond-based software firm sent new copyright infringement claims

Wikipedia Gets a Modern Sigup Page, to Boost Registrations

Wikipedia Gets a Modern Sigup Page, to Boost Registrations

Wikipedia's new registration page is designed to make it easier to sign up

Wikimedia Suspends UK Branch Funding During Conflict of Interest Investigation

Wikimedia Suspends UK Branch Funding During Conflict of Interest Investigation

The UK charter has been involved in a series of scandals lately

  • Web Blog
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • September 20th, 2012
Wikipedia to Start Releasing Full but Anonymous Search Data

Wikipedia to Start Releasing Full but Anonymous Search Data

Wikipedia is releasing the data to improve its own search engine and help researchers

Possible Conflict of Interest Involving a Wikipedia Director and Gibraltarpedia

Possible Conflict of Interest Involving a Wikipedia Director and Gibraltarpedia

Wikipedia's opaque inner workings are hard to understand from the outside

You Can Now Export Wikipedia Pages and Topics into EPUB Ebooks

You Can Now Export Wikipedia Pages and Topics into EPUB Ebooks

It's easy to put together a book on any topic and have it exported in the open format

Jimmy Wales Will Encrypt Wikipedia in the UK If Government Snooping Bill Passes

Jimmy Wales Will Encrypt Wikipedia in the UK If Government Snooping Bill Passes

The UK wants ISPs and phone companies to keep track of their customers

The 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments Is Underway and the Android App for It Is Here

The 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments Is Underway and the Android App for It Is Here

The app enables users to upload their photos of the monuments nominated

Calibre Plugin of the Week: Wiki Reader

Calibre Plugin of the Week: Wiki Reader

With this plugin users will be able to create ebooks from Wikipedia articles

Wikipedia Is Running on Just One Data Center After Outage

Wikipedia Is Running on Just One Data Center After Outage

Wikimedia is waiting for a full explanation from the ISP on what happened

Wikipedia Outage Linked to Two Cut Cables

Wikipedia Outage Linked to Two Cut Cables

Fiber optic cable leading out of its main data center were cut

Wikipedia Is Down, Under Heavy Load

Wikipedia Is Down, Under Heavy Load

The popular site is not accessible right now and neither are any Wikimedia sites

Wikipedia-Paid Study Finds Wikipedia More Accurate Than Traditional Encyclopedias

Wikipedia-Paid Study Finds Wikipedia More Accurate Than Traditional Encyclopedias

Though the sample size was very small and unrepresentative for the site as a whole

Gibraltar Wants to Become the First Wikipedia City

Gibraltar Wants to Become the First Wikipedia City

Following Monmouth, the first Wikipedia town thanks to the Monmouthpedia project

You'll Soon Be Able to "Comment" on Wikipedia Articles

You'll Soon Be Able to "Comment" on Wikipedia Articles

The new Article Feedback tool encourages users to leave messages on what could be improved

 
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