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 ⟩