The collaborative online encyclopedia, which has become a reliable source amid a flood of misinformation, turns 20 today
YouTube has driven millions of viewers to climate denial videos, a US activist group said on Thursday as it called for stopping “free promotion of misinformation” at the platform. New York-based Avaaz said it scrutinised results of Google-owned YouTube searches using the terms “global warming,” “climate change,” and “climate manipulation” to see what was offered […]
Women viewers are increasing and that could help to usher in the sex revolution we are hankering after
Wikipedia contributors are few in Africa
The 14th annual Wikimania conference brought together more than 500 people to discuss the future of Wikipedia and free knowledge globally
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A group of grade 12 pupils asked all South Africa’s cellphone providers for free Wikipedia on their phones, and they got it.
Wikipedia is aiming to use mobile phones to reach a billion people by 2015, a senior executive has said, doubling the present number.
A seemingly meticulous entry about a 17th century conflict between colonial Portugal and India’s Maratha empire has been outed as a hoax.
Niren Tolsi goes deep into the web to find the underground world that lives on the Hidden Wiki.
The public knowledge website is more than a decade old and remains among the top 10 Internet sites in the world, but some say it is becoming dowdy.
The protest against Sopa and Pipa has shown that governments of all stripes need to fear the internet, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.
As US websites black out their content to fight SOPA, local analysts say the US anti-piracy Bill could seriously affect South African consumers too.
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/ 27 January 2009
Wikipedia faces a revolt among thousands of its contributors over proposals to change the way the online encyclopaedia is run.
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/ 14 December 2008
"Scorpions", says Wikipedia, "are eight-legged venomous arachnids. They have a long body with an extended tail with a sting.
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/ 5 September 2008
United States Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday fell victim to cheeky editing of his profile on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search will break Google’s domination as the world’s most widely used internet search engine.
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/ 9 November 2007
When a blogger revealed earlier this year that Microsoft wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the web encyclopedia’s founder for behaving unethically. But why is it so bad to pay someone to write something on Wikipedia?