Slashdot Items Tagged "wikipedia"

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Friday March 01, 2024 @06:46PM Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads
Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:31PM AI-Generated Articles Prompt Wikipedia To Downgrade CNET's Reliability Rating
Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:49PM ChatGPT Tops Wikipedia's Most-Viewed Articles of 2023 List
Friday April 28, 2023 @08:32AM Wikipedia Will Not Perform Online Safety Bill Age Checks
Monday April 03, 2023 @12:00AM Will Wikipedia Be Written by AI? Jimmy Wales is Thinking About It
Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:27PM Russian Fines Wikipedia Over Military 'Misinformation'
Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:42AM Supreme Court Snubs Wikipedia Bid To Challenge NSA Surveillance
Monday February 06, 2023 @03:38PM Wikipedia Unblocked in Pakistan After Prime Minister's Intervention
Friday February 03, 2023 @02:30PM Wikipedia Blocked in Pakistan Over 'Sacrilegious' Content
Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:38PM Pakistan Degrades Wikipedia, Warns of Complete Block Over 'Sacrilegious' Content
Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:03PM Wikipedia Has Spent Years on a Barely Noticeable Redesign
Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:07PM Wikipedia Criticises 'Harsh' New Online Safety Bill Plans
Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:54PM Saudi Arabia Jails Two Wikipedia Staff In 'Bid To Control Content'
Monday September 05, 2022 @01:16PM India Summons Wikipedia Officials Over Edits To Cricketer's Page
Sunday August 21, 2022 @07:06PM Meta AI and Wikimedia Foundation Build an ML-Powered, Citation-Checking Bot
Friday July 29, 2022 @04:00PM Study Finds Wikipedia Influences Judicial Behavior
Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:37PM A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History On Wikipedia
Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:58PM Wikimedia Enterprise Announces Google and Internet Archive as Its First Customers
Sunday May 01, 2022 @04:04PM It's Official: Wikipedia Stops Accepting Donations in Cryptocurrency
Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:15PM Wikipedia Community Votes To Stop Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations
Monday March 21, 2022 @06:39PM Russians Are Racing To Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned
Saturday March 12, 2022 @11:41PM Belarus Arrests Prominent Wikipedia Editor, Sentences Him to 15 Days of Arrest
Friday March 04, 2022 @05:01PM Wikimedia Says It 'Will Not Back Down' After Russia Threatens Wikipedia Block
Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:18PM Wikimedia Foundation Urged to Stop Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations
Monday January 17, 2022 @05:39PM Wikipedia May Be Next To Drop Support For Crypto
Wednesday January 12, 2022 @02:10PM Wikipedia Faces Pressure To Stop Accepting Crypto Donations on Environmental Grounds
Saturday December 18, 2021 @02:50PM Beatings, Doxxings, Harassment: the War Over Chinese Wikipedia
Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:10PM Wikipedia Editors Very Mad About Jimmy Wales' NFT of a Wikipedia Edit
Friday December 03, 2021 @12:08PM Jimmy Wales is Selling His First Wikipedia Edit as an NFT
Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:04PM Wikipedia Criticized After Years of Using the Wrong Man's Picture to Depict a Serial Killer
Sunday October 31, 2021 @11:12AM Richard Dawkins, Jimmy Wales - Unlike Facebook, No One Gets Special Treatment on Wikipedia
Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:17PM Wikipedia Bans Seven Chinese Users Amid Concerns of 'Infiltration, Physical Harm'
Monday August 16, 2021 @05:18PM Thousands of Wikipedia Pages Vandalized With Giant Swastikas
Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:06PM New Hutter Prize Winner Achieves Milestone for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge
Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:59PM Wikimedia Bans Admin of Wikipedia Croatia For Pushing Radical Agenda
Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:33PM Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech To Pay Up
Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:12PM Wikipedia Unveils 'Code Of Conduct' To Stem Misinformation
Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:56PM The English Language Wikipedia Just Had Its Billionth Edit
Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:15PM Wikimedia Is Moving To GitLab
Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:33PM WHO To Grant Wikipedia Free Use of Its Published Material To Combat Covid Misinformation
Friday September 25, 2020 @03:35PM China Blocks Wikimedia Foundation's Accreditation To World Intellectual Property Organization
Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:22PM Wikipedia Is Getting Its First Major Redesign In a Decade
Friday September 18, 2020 @01:28PM Wikipedia Edits Have Massive Impact on Tourism, Say Economists
Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:27PM Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English
Friday June 26, 2020 @01:25PM The Value of Tor and Anonymous Contributions To Wikipedia
Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:43PM Wikipedia Plans New Rule To Combat 'Toxic Behavior'
Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:14AM Predictive Text Patent Troll Tries To Shake Down Wikipedia
Sunday March 08, 2020 @11:46PM 'How Wikipedia's Volunteers Became the Web's Best Weapon Against Misinformation'
Monday February 24, 2020 @03:58PM Mapping Wikipedia
Friday January 24, 2020 @03:51AM Wikipedia Now Has More Than 6 Million Articles in English
Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:25PM Internet Pioneers Fight For Control of .Org Registry By Forming a Nonprofit Alternative
Friday December 27, 2019 @06:04AM Wikimedia Says It is Deeply Concerned About India's Proposed Intermediary Liability Rules
Thursday December 26, 2019 @10:36AM Turkey's Wikipedia Ban Violates Rights, Top Court Rules
Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:31PM Russia To Upgrade Homegrown Encyclopedia After Putin Pans Wikipedia
Friday November 29, 2019 @10:57PM Jimmy Wales' New Social Network Skyrockets To 345,000 Members, Will Hire Journalists
Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:03PM Wikipedia's Co-Founder Takes On Facebook With Ad-Free Social Network
Monday November 04, 2019 @11:12AM The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable
Monday October 07, 2019 @09:59AM China and Taiwan Clash Over Wikipedia Edits
Saturday September 07, 2019 @10:25AM Parts of Wikipedia Went Offline After 'Malicious' DDoS Attack
Friday May 31, 2019 @02:15PM The North Face Used Wikipedia To Climb To the Top of Google Search Results
Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:35PM Wikipedia To Fight Turkey Ban in European Human Rights Court
Friday May 17, 2019 @10:10AM Wikipedia Is 'Doing Very Well Financially', Says Co-Founder Jimmy Wales
Monday May 13, 2019 @02:03PM The Great Firewall of China Blocks Off Wikipedia
Monday April 29, 2019 @06:20PM A Bitter Turf War is Raging on the Brexit Wikipedia Page
Friday April 05, 2019 @06:10PM Former Senate Staffer Admits To Doxxing Five Senators On Wikipedia
Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:33PM Wikimedia Foundation Joins the World Wide Web Consortium
Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:31PM Four Wikipedias To 'Black Out' Over EU Copyright Directive
Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:08PM Meet the Man Behind a Third of What's On Wikipedia
Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:01PM Google Commits $3.1 Million and Free Cloud APIs To Wikimedia
Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:09PM Happy 18th Birthday, Wikipedia
Friday December 21, 2018 @10:40AM Facebook Donates $1 Million To Support Wikipedia
Thursday November 08, 2018 @02:09PM A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs
Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:28PM Does Amazon Owe Wikipedia For Taking Advantage of The Free Labor of Their Volunteers?
Wednesday October 03, 2018 @10:40AM Former Students Say Steve Wozniak's $13,200 Coding Bootcamp Is 'Broken' and Sometimes Links To Wikipedia
Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:31AM Internet Archive Says It Has Restored 9 Million Broken Wikipedia Links By Directing Them To Archived Versions in Wayback Machine
Sunday September 30, 2018 @01:37PM Wikimedia Endowment Gets New $1 Million Backing From Amazon
Saturday September 08, 2018 @01:36AM Wikipedia Seeks Photos of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in Brazil Museum Fire
Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:18PM AI Can Now Help Write Wikipedia Pages For Overlooked Scientists
Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:43AM Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia
Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:11AM YouTube Is Fighting Conspiracy Theories With 'Authoritative' Context and Outside Links
Tuesday July 03, 2018 @11:17AM Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU's Ruinous Copyright Proposals
Friday June 29, 2018 @11:54AM How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia
Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:33PM Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party
Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:30AM Last Stop For Wikipedia's Feuding Editors -- Online High Court
Monday May 07, 2018 @07:23AM Decade Old Academic Paper on Global Climate Zones Named the Most Cited Source on Wikipedia
Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:31PM Teenage Subway Aficionados Help With the Upkeep of Every One of New York City's 472 Subway Stations -- At Least on Wikipedia
Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:04PM Did Stephen Hawking Owe a Nobel Physicist a Subscription To a Softcore Porn Magazine?
Sunday March 18, 2018 @03:04AM Why Do People Go To Wikipedia? A Survey Suggests It's Their Desire To Go Down that Random Rabbit Hole
Wednesday March 14, 2018 @03:57PM Wikipedia Had No Idea YouTube Was Going To Use It To Fact-Check Conspiracy Theories
Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:33PM YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies
Monday March 12, 2018 @03:22AM What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia?
Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:43PM Google Trains AI To Write Wikipedia Articles
Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:14PM The Wikipedia Zero Program Will End This Year
Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:39AM Wikipedia Has Become a Science Reference Source Even Though Scientists Don't Cite it
Friday November 24, 2017 @01:32PM There's Now a Dark Web Version of Wikipedia
Wednesday November 08, 2017 @07:20AM Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
Tuesday October 31, 2017 @12:01PM Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune is Already Biased
Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:11PM 'Maybe Wikipedia Readers Shouldn't Need Science Degrees To Digest Articles About Basic Topics'
Wednesday July 05, 2017 @02:11PM The XHamster Wikipedia Page Is Suddenly Immensely Popular, and No One Knows Why
Wednesday June 07, 2017 @10:31AM Wikimedia Executives Receive Six-figure Golden Handshakes
Monday May 29, 2017 @11:47AM Wikipedia's Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship
Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:15PM Wikimedia Is Clear To Sue the NSA Over Its Use of Warrantless Surveillance Tools
Monday May 01, 2017 @04:33PM China is Recruiting 20,000 People To Write Its Own Wikipedia
Tuesday April 25, 2017 @11:06AM Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Launching an Online Publication To Fight Fake News
Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:46AM Wikipedia's 'Ban' of 'The Daily Mail' Didn't Really Happen
Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:06PM Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages
Sunday February 12, 2017 @10:15PM 34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia
Sunday February 12, 2017 @08:10AM Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users
Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:05PM Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source
Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:44PM Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit
Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:49AM Wikimedia Foundation Nabs $3 Million Grant To Improve Accessibility of Free Commons' Content
Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:18PM Wikipedia Announces Their Most Viewed Articles Of 2016
Monday December 26, 2016 @02:51PM The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned
Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:56PM Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016
Friday December 16, 2016 @12:31PM Wikipedia Exceeds Fundraising Target, But Continues Asking For More Money
Monday November 07, 2016 @10:39AM Wikipedia's Not as Biased as You Might Think, Say Harvard Researchers
Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:27AM Wikipedia Community and Internet Archive Partner To Fix One Million Broken Links on Wikipedia
Saturday September 10, 2016 @02:11PM Vandalism Detection Contest Sponsored For Wikidata
Sunday August 28, 2016 @01:53PM Microsoft Lost a City Because They Used Wikipedia Data
Friday August 19, 2016 @05:35AM Wikiverse Turns Wikipedia Into a Marvelous Galaxy of Knowledge
Thursday July 14, 2016 @04:11PM 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation'
Monday May 30, 2016 @01:08PM Net Neutrality Is Complicated: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
Wednesday May 18, 2016 @10:42AM Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide
Saturday May 14, 2016 @03:28PM Wikipedia Announces Their 10 Longest Featured Articles
Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:52AM Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study
Wednesday March 23, 2016 @10:54AM Angola's Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing Loopholes in Zero Rating
Saturday February 13, 2016 @06:47PM Reluctant Wikipedia Lifts Lid On $2.5M Internet Search Engine Project
Friday February 12, 2016 @07:50PM US Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia To Remove the Diary of Anne Frank
Friday January 29, 2016 @05:44PM Arnnon Geshuri, Newest Wikimedia Trustee, Forced To Resign
Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:54AM How Many Hoaxes Are On Wikipedia? No One Knows
Friday March 13, 2015 @11:07PM Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters
Tuesday March 10, 2015 @08:25AM Wikimedia Foundation Files Suit Against NSA and DOJ
Monday February 09, 2015 @01:53AM The Bizarre and Complex Story of a Failed Wikipedia Software Extension
Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:02PM One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake
Tuesday December 02, 2014 @11:28AM A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand?
Friday November 28, 2014 @02:51AM Wikipedia's "Complicated" Relationship With Net Neutrality
Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:17PM Meet the 36 people who run Wikipedia
Saturday October 11, 2014 @04:08PM How Spurious Wikipedia Edits Can Attach a Name To a Scandal, 35 Years On
Thursday September 18, 2014 @03:25PM Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult?
Thursday August 28, 2014 @06:00PM Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia
Tuesday August 12, 2014 @10:54AM Wikipedia Gets Critical Reception from UK Press at Wikimania 2014
Wednesday August 06, 2014 @12:01PM Wikipedia Reports 50 Links From Google 'Forgotten', Issues Transparency Report
Monday July 28, 2014 @09:03PM Dear Museums: Uploading Your Content To Wikimedia Commons Just Got Easier
Friday July 18, 2014 @06:23PM $10 Million Lawsuit Against Wikipedia Editors "Stragetically" Withdrawn
Sunday June 29, 2014 @06:16PM US National Archives Will Upload All Its Holdings To Wikipedia
Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:49AM Wikipedia Medical Articles Found To Have High Error Rate
Tuesday April 08, 2014 @10:16AM German Wikipedia Has Problems With Paid Editing — and Threats of Violence
Tuesday March 25, 2014 @09:14AM Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way
Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:12PM Russian Civil Law Changed By Wikimedia
Tuesday March 11, 2014 @09:28AM Major Wikipedia Donors Caught Editing Their Own Articles
Tuesday February 18, 2014 @10:08AM FLOSS Codecs Emerge Victorious In Wikimedia Vote
Tuesday February 11, 2014 @11:40AM IBM Employees Caught Editing Wikipedia
Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:15AM Finnish Police Board Wants Justification For Wikipedia's Fundraising Campaign
Friday January 17, 2014 @08:19AM Wikimedia Community Debates H.264 Support On Wikipedia Sites.
Tuesday November 26, 2013 @10:11AM Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images
Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:48PM Wikimedia Sends Cease and Desist Letter To Firm Providing Paid Editing Services
Saturday November 09, 2013 @12:31AM Wikimedia Launches Beta Program To Test Upcoming Features
Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:43PM Wikipedia's Participation Problem
Thursday June 27, 2013 @11:48AM Interview: Ask Jimmy Wales What You Will
Sunday May 05, 2013 @12:44PM Campaign Raises Funds To Send Wikipedia Readers To Kids Without Internet
Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:38AM Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5
Monday April 08, 2013 @01:32AM Why French Govt's Attempt to Censor Wikipedia Matters
Saturday April 06, 2013 @09:09AM French Intelligence Agency Forces Removal of Wikipedia Entry
Monday February 25, 2013 @12:21PM WebCitation calls for cash on FundRazr
Saturday January 19, 2013 @04:48PM Wikimedia To Move Its Servers To Ashburn, Virginia
Saturday December 29, 2012 @03:52AM Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money
Saturday November 17, 2012 @03:23PM How Can Wikipedia's Visual Editor Top Other Word Processors?
Friday October 26, 2012 @12:21AM Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion
Tuesday October 16, 2012 @09:33AM Wikipedia Zero Wants to Make Wikipedia Free
Thursday September 06, 2012 @09:50AM Jimmy Wales Threatens To Obstruct UK Government Snooping
Saturday August 11, 2012 @01:19PM Let The Campaign Edit Wars Begin
Wednesday August 08, 2012 @10:02AM Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick
Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:44PM Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick
Thursday August 02, 2012 @09:39AM Wikipedia-sponsored 'pilot study' lauds Wikipedia accuracy
Saturday July 14, 2012 @07:35AM Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly?
Monday July 09, 2012 @09:49PM Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans
Monday July 09, 2012 @08:00PM Russian Wikipedia shutters in protest of Internet Blacklist plans
Tuesday June 26, 2012 @12:21PM Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration
Monday June 25, 2012 @05:52AM Jimmy Wales Calls UK Government To Halt O'Dwyer Extradition
Monday June 25, 2012 @03:58AM Wales Launches Dwyer Petition
Thursday May 31, 2012 @11:26AM What should we do about Wikipedia's porn problem?
Tuesday May 29, 2012 @11:24AM Statisticians Investigate Political Bias on Wikipedia
Friday May 18, 2012 @02:44AM GMU Prof Teaches How To Falsify Wikipedia — and Get Caught
Wednesday May 16, 2012 @10:29PM History Professor Teaches How to Falsify Wikipedia
Wednesday May 16, 2012 @01:01PM Kevin Bacon Meets Wikipedia With New Pathfinding Program
Wednesday May 16, 2012 @08:04AM Kevin Bacon Meets Wikipedia With New Pathfinding Program
Wednesday May 02, 2012 @01:57PM Jimmy Wales Backs UK Government Bid To Free Academic Data
Sunday April 08, 2012 @10:32AM Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap
Friday March 16, 2012 @04:10AM Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did
Thursday March 08, 2012 @03:49PM Wikipedia parent ditching GoDaddy for MarkMonitor
Wednesday February 15, 2012 @11:17AM The 'Undue Weight' of truth on Wikipedia
Monday February 13, 2012 @06:44PM Wikipedia dumps GoDaddy for MarkMonitor
Friday February 10, 2012 @09:46PM Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy
Friday February 10, 2012 @07:06AM Wikipedia hasn't forgiven GoDaddy
Wednesday February 01, 2012 @10:29AM Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language
Sunday January 22, 2012 @08:32AM Official Wikipedia Android App Using PhoneGap
Wednesday January 18, 2012 @02:36AM How to Access Wikipedia During the Blackout
Wednesday January 18, 2012 @02:14AM Tech Giants give us a taste of a censored web.
Wednesday January 18, 2012 @01:31AM Wikipedia Blackout Begins
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @09:45AM Wikipedia Still Set For Full Blackout Wednesday