Wikipedia
Every article on Wikipedia. The Internet encyclopedia was co-founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sangler. It is a community-based platform where users can edit and add articles. It is owned and supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation based in San Francisco, California.
The latest articles around Wikipedia
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Wikipedia's desktop site is getting a revamp for the first time in 10 years
Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites in the world. And for over a decade, its desktop site's design has remained consistent. However, that's going to change soon, as the organization is redesigning some elements of it. Wikimedia, the organization managing Wikipedia, said ...
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Wikipedia's co-founder takes on Facebook with ad-free social network
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales thinks he can create a better social network. Called WT:Social, the network has no financial association with Wikipedia, but operates on a similar business model: donations, not advertising. WT:Social went live last month and is currently nearing ...
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Internet Archive makes it easy to read books cited on Wikipedia
The Internet Archive this week announced it was partnering with Wikipedia to link the latter's book citations to the former's redoubtable library. In future, when users look up a source on page, they may be able to get a digital copy of the book from the Internet Archive. Both ...
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This site turns Wikipedia pages into 'legit' academic papers
M-Journal is a website that turns any Wikipedia entry into legitimate looking academic paper — and it even puts it behind ...
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How 'The Equal Edit' campaign is improving gender equality in Swedish history on Wikipedia
“The Equal Edit,” launched by the Wikimedia Foundation, recently partnered with Historiskan, the first journal in Sweden ...
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Wikipedia bios for women scientists are more likely to be flagged for removal
Currently, just 17 percent of the English-language biographies on Wikipedia are about women, and women scientists in particular ...
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Wikipedia titles you can sing to the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' theme song, tweeted
We all know the theme to 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is the world's greatest song. Somehow, it's been made even better. ...
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Here’s why you’re having issues with Reddit and Wikipedia in the EU
The final vote on the EU's controversial Copyright Reform will take place on March 26. If it's passed it could have disastrous ...
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This physicist has written over 500 biographies of women scientists on Wikipedia
Physicist, Jess Wade, has spent the last year trying to improve the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia by adding ...
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How to decentralize social media, according to Wikipedia’s co-founder
The problem about social media is that it is centralized. Centralization empowers massive corporations and governments to steal our privacy and restrict our speech and autonomy. What should exist are neutral, technical standards and protocols, like the standards and protocols ...
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Wikipedia co-founder blocked from his Wikipedia account [Update: False alarm!]
Update: Turns out it was a simple misunderstanding. Larry Sanger told TNW he accidentally logged in with the wrong username of and older account. Wikipedia spokesperson said the older account had been inactive for some time (about 10 years) and was blocked by volunteer administrators ...
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'Devil's Triangle' Wikipedia entry edited by anonymous Congressional staffer during Kavanaugh hearing
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh today met with the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss allegations of sexual assault and attempted rape. His accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, testified before members of the committee to tell her story, one that included allegations that Kavanaugh, ...
