Tag: Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia Banks $140,000 in Bitcoin Donations in First Week
The Wikimedia Foundation lives on donations – that's how you can read the Wikipedia entry on World of Warcraft and not be bombarded with ads for Mountain Dew Code Red. And garnerin...
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Wikipedia Shows Content Google ‘Forgets’
It was recently reported that Google is removing links to Wikipedia article...
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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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Wikipedia Wins One Battle Against Black Hat Paid Editing
The Wikimedia Foundation announced that it successfully obtained orders preventing four sites, which advertise paid Wikipedia article editing, from using the Wikipedia trademark. T...
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Wikipedia Gets A Revamp On Tablets
The Wikimedia Foundation unveiled a new look for Wikipedia and its other properties for tablets. There are similarities to the mobile web version you've already been seeing on your...
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Lila Tretikov Replaces Sue Gardner As Executive Director Of Wikimedia Foundation
It's been over thirteen months since Sue Gardner announced that she'd...
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Respected Wikimedia Employee Busted And Fired For Paid Wikipedia Edits
Back in the fall, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that it was shutting d...
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Here’s How Multimedia On Wikipedia Could Work In A Couple Years
The WIkimedia Foundation is thinking about some changes it can make to the way multimedia works on Wikipedia, and has shared its vision for some possibilities for the next couple o...
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Wikimedia Foundation Sends Cease & Desist To Wiki-PR
Last month, Sue Gardner, the outgoing executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation,...
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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 Adds ‘Nearby’ Feature To Surface Location-Relevant Content
The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the addition of a new Nearby feature designed to help users discover articles about subjects relevant to their location. It's available for...
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Wikimedia Launches Wikimedia Commons App For Android, iOS
The Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of a new app for Android and iOS, which allows you to quickly upload photos to to Wikimedia Commons, its free image repository. Th...
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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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Download All Of Wikipedia Onto Your Android Device
Wikipedia suggests that you download the entirety of the website on your Android device using an app called Kiwix. The Wikimedia foundation posted to its blog today, recommendi...
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