Tag: Wikimedia

Wikipedia Donations Can Now Be Made in Bitcoin
If you've been putting off donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, waiting to do so in a cryptocurrency, today's the day. The Wikimedia Foundation, which is responsible for the i...
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Will Policy Changes Make Wikipedia More Trustworthy?
The Wikimedia Foundation announced changes to its terms of service to address the problem of black hat paid editing of content such as Wikipedia articles. With half a billion peopl...
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Wikipedia Shuts Down Hundreds Of Accounts For Paid Edits
Sue Gardner, the outgoing executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced today that over 250 Wikipedia accounts have been blocked or banned as editors investigate accusa...
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Wikimedia Plans To Beef Up Security Across Projects With HTTPS
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on making its projects more secure to protect users' privacy. As one can imagine, there are plenty of technological obstacles that the found...
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Wikipedia Finally Gets Mobile Editing
The Wikimedia Foundation announced today that it has finally added the ability to edit Wikipedia from mobile devices. Historically, you've only been able to do so from the desktop....
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Wikipedia and Other Wikimedia Sites See 500M+ Uniques a Month
Wikimedia sites, which include Wikipedia, Wikionary, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote, and nearly a dozen more,...
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Asteroid Named “Wikipedia” Officially Documented
Considering just how many asteroids there are in the asteroid belt, it can be difficult to come up with acceptable names f...
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Wikipedia Moves To Ashburn, Virginia
The Wikimedia Foundation announced today that it is transitioning its main technical operations from a data center in Tampa to one in Ashburn, Virginia, in move it says will improv...
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There Are Now Over 15 Million Media Files In Wikimedia Commons
The WIkimedia Foundation announced that on December 4, Wikimedia Commons, the organization's free media repository, hit a 15 million media file milestone. There are now over 15 mil...
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Wikimedia & Orange To Provide Free Wikipedia Access In Africa, Middle East
Jimmy Wales isn't messing around when it comes to stressing the point that, yes, everybody should have free and available access to information. In a press release this afternoo...
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Wikimedia Foundation Breaks Record With Fundraising Campaign
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, has wrapped up its annual fund raising campaign, breaking a record with $20 million raised from over a million donors in “nearly eve...
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Wikimedia Expands On Wikipedia’s Thoughts Concerning SOPA
While the position of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales concerning SOPA is now well known, his "Put SOPA on Blast" essay essentially spoke for himself, although, one would be inclin...
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