Wikipedia hotshot Sue Gardner announces decision to step down
March 28, 2013 3:25 pm
Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner will step down in six months, she announced in a blog post Wednesday. Gardner… Continue reading 〉
Wikipedia crowdsources site performance: Speeding up 488,731 templates with a little Lua to go
March 18, 2013 4:10 pm
Apparently, now you can crowdsource website performance. Wikipedia pages should get a lot quicker very soon as the foundation behind… Continue reading 〉
Wikipedia founder ‘will never cooperate with censors,’ worries about state-sponsored attacks
February 28, 2013 1:53 am
Just like the rest of the security community, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is worried about state-sponsored cyber attacks. The… Continue reading 〉
Free knowledge, freely delivered: Wikipedia Zero expands to 212M mobile users in developing nations
January 25, 2013 5:05 pm
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Information may want to be free, but the organization… Continue reading 〉
What interests the world? Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles in 2012 by language
December 28, 2012 6:02 pm
To the Thais in my village, the biggest news item while I lived there was the death of Michael Jackson.… Continue reading 〉
It’s that time of year again — Wikipedia fundraiser time, that is
November 27, 2012 7:09 pm
Get ready for banner ads and guilt trips, y’all; Wikipedia’s raising money again! This year marks the Wikimedia Foundation’s ninth… Continue reading 〉
Let’s get visual: Wikipedia enables HTML 5 video for all of its entries
November 8, 2012 6:56 pm
The wait is over. Wikipedia now widely supports HTML 5 video content on its millions of entries with the launch… Continue reading 〉
Wikipedia’s focus on mobile spikes growth in Kenya, Malaysia, Niger
October 30, 2012 4:28 pm
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale While we in Silicon Valley twiddle our thumbs over… Continue reading 〉
Andreessen Horowitz invests $15M in hip hop Wikipedia Rap Genius
October 3, 2012 6:50 pm
$15 million is a lot of cash to invest in a rap lyrics site, but Andreessen Horowitz’s investment in Rap Genius is the… Continue reading 〉
Quora takes aim at Wikipedia with new topic pages & trending topics
September 11, 2012 9:51 pm
Social network Quora made some interesting additions to its service today in an attempt to become the Internet’s go-to place… Continue reading 〉
