Wikepedia chief and co-founder, Jimmy Wales accepted a position with the British government as an unpaid advisor for open policy creation and other technology-based initiatives. Us...
Wikimedia Foundation boss Jimmy Wales can add one more not-for-profit post to his CV. He'll now be advising the British government on matters of technology, transparency, open poli...
The Wikimedia Foundation announced that all of its sites have been migrated away from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The transition was completed on Friday, and the foundation it was done...
Ask a 21st-century college professor to name a few of the biggest challenges to her art today and "Wikipedia" and "Social Media" are sure to top the list. For more than a decade, t...
Typos happen. They're inescapable if you use a computer. This is why keyboards come with a Delete key. Given then that typos are expected, it was inevitable that someone out in the...
Frugal Dad has put out an infographic breaking down SOPA blackout day (January 18) by the numbers.
"The Wikipedia blackout was seen by 160 million people - over twice those who...
Jimmy Wales isn't messing around when it comes to stressing the point that, yes, everybody should have free and available access to information.
In a press release this afternoo...
If you wanted to make the declarative statement "Last Wednesday's internet SOPA / PIPA protests killed SOPA & PIPA," there exists some pretty strong evidence to back you up.
F...
Speaking at the DLD conference in Munich this morning, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales didn't mince words on the subject of former Senator and current MPAA chairman Chris Dodd. He said th...
Wikipedia made bank this morning when the foundation received $1 million on stage during the Digital Life Design conference.
This morning on the DLD stage, Wikipedia founder Ji...
Remember when everybody was bemoaning the lack of Wikipedia due to the Mayan SOPA Blackout of 2012? I know, I barely do, too - that was so yesterday. Well, the next time that happe...
Twitter didn't go dark to protest SOPA / PIPA on Wednesday, although some thought they should. An argument against Twitter shutting off its service was that it would severely hamp...
Everybody make it through yesterday's Internet-wide protest? Everyone still in one piece? Good. Now, let's take a moment to consider the aftermath of Wikipedia's...
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