Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to the new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten human rights and safety of its volunteer editors. The Wikimedia Foundation – the non-profit which supports the online encyclopedia – wanted a…
The Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit, has introduced a new product called Wikimedia Enterprise. The Wikimedia Enterprise product “provides paid developer tools and services that make it easier for companies and organizations to consume and re-use Wikimedia data.” It will be…
The Internet Archive announced that is has transformed 130,000 references to books in Wikipedia into live links for 50,000 digitized Internet Archive books in several Wikipedia language editions (including English, Greek, and Arabic). The result of this ongoing work could…
The Register reports on how the wikipedia entries on short selling, and possibly other financial sections where being controlled by a person with a very biased view on these subjects. The article alleges that one the effects control of this…
A very well researched and written story on The Register on a Wikipedia admin with a conflict of interest. While this admin edits a lot of the entries on cults, he is a previous (or maybe even current) member of…
There has been a lot written about the Wikipedia lately and most of it pretty negative. So today when I saw Dave Winer link to an essay on the subject I expected another flame fest. But what has been posted…
Marc here is some advise put your Bio on your own website, after all it’s your biography. The Wikipedia Zealots will in no way allow your entries to stand, no mater how good your intentions are, the data will get…