Wikipedia Founder: We Don't Want 'Dusty' Encyclopedias 'On The Shelf'
LAGOS, Nigeria — The man who helped create the online reference Wikipedia said Tuesday that the end of Encyclopaedia Britannica's print run show...
LAGOS, Nigeria — The man who helped create the online reference Wikipedia said Tuesday that the end of Encyclopaedia Britannica's print run show...
Katie Engelhart | Posted 03.25.2012
Decisions made by Wikipedia editors are not law. But when it comes to determining what is 'normal' online -- and how much taboo we're willing to stomach on our Internet -- a Wikipedia referendum can count for just as much.
Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 03.18.2012
Here's what women need to know about the proposed bills and blackout -- and why we stand to be disproportionately affected.
The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 02.10.2012
Wikipedia has issued an official statement confirming a planned blackout on January 18. Scroll down for update. Wikipedia has apparently joined th...
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.12.2011
Enjoy it while you can: Wikipedia could temporarily go off the air. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has asked users to weigh in on a potential Wikip...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 11.26.2011
In an age when airport terminals tweet and even dry cleaners ask to be “liked” on Facebook, social media has a surprise holdout: Wikipedia. The...
AP | DANIEL ESTRIN | Posted 10.04.2011
HAIFA, Israel — Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is written entirely by volunteers and allows anyone to edit its entries, is losing contr...
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.27.2011
Love thy Wiki: The crowdsourced web encyclopedia is about to make it easier for you to show your appreciation. Wikipedia relies on volunteer editor...
techcrunch.com | Posted 05.25.2011
On the Charlie Rose Show last night, towards the end of his interview, Wales says, "If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it ...
Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite the early fears of many critics, Wikipedia has proven to be a place to find information quickly and easily. What does this mean for us and how we attain knowledge?
TECH.BLORGE | Posted 05.25.2011
The app store model is a more immediate threat to internet freedom than breaches of net neutrality. That's the opinion of Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales....
The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
2011 is looking up for Wikipedia, the collaborative free-content internet encyclopedia. On January 1, co-founder Jimmy Wales announced in a blog pos...
Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the weekend, Wikipedia kicked off its 2010 fundraising drive with a personal appeal from founder Jimmy Wales. Actually, with two appeals. Taking...
Rudy Adler | Posted 05.25.2011
This year, 1.5 million Facebook users will pass away but their Facebook profiles will live on. This is a growing problem and people are naturally asking: can major social media sites handle their dead?
Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
Vote iQ political social networking platform listens to voters By Mike Smith Huffington Post Blogger Mike Smith Public Affairs, Washington, DC The P...
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Jimmy Wales' failing to take a position on net neutrality -- despite the impact this debate will have on his websites and his business -- is both telling and troubling.
HeathCliff Rothman | Posted 05.25.2011
The What's Your Issue Film Competition is asking young social innovators to make a three-minute video explaining their idea for a project that would address a current national problem.
Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.25.2011
"In the 21st century, can facts matter?" Good question from Mitch Kapor, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, at a UC Berkeley forum last weekend. "How do we make facts matter?
Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011
The word count is on, the clock is ticking, and I'm writing about writing about 500 words. But not about 500 words. Exactly 500. So here goes.
Telegraph | Emma Barnett, Technology and Digital Media Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011
The study, conducted by Felipe Ortega at Libresoft, a research group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, analysed the editing history of mor...
Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011
Swadeshi means self-sufficiency. It was a key part of Gandhi's strategy to free India from British rule. Today, there's a new kind of swadeshi with online social activism.
Jimmy Wales | Posted 05.25.2011
If you follow the news about Wikipedia, even casually, you're probably aware that something is changing. What you probably don't realize is that what you've been led to believe is almost certainly completely wrong.
Juliette Powell | Posted 05.25.2011
Tech innovators connect and conspire for a weekend to recharge their batteries and share ideas between gadgethons and power tool drag racing events.
New York Post | Cindy Adams | Posted 05.25.2011
Wikipedia's chairman and founder Jimmy Wales told me how authoritative is his operation, which is basically sourced by a ragtag assortment of contribu...
Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 11.17.2011
Trisha Walsh Smith, the soon-to-be-ex-wife of Philip Smith, president of the Schubert Group (as in, the Schubert Theater), is tired of suffering throu...
AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 05.27.2012