The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based projects, announced this morning that it’s now implementing HTTPS by default across all its sites in order to encrypt ...
The Wikimedia Foundation has sent a cease and desist letter to Wiki-PR, a public relations agency that has reportedly been engaging in paid advocacy editing on free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. In ...
Last week, users around the world found Wikipedia down after the online, crowdsourced encyclopedia became the target of a massive, sustained DDoS attack — one that it is still actively fighting ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Can nudging people into making simple edits help grow a new crop of Wikipedians? Can nudging people into making ...
Given the site’s democratic nature, it is big news within the Wikipedia community whenever administrators take the extraordinary step of implementing a global ban against an individual user, revoking ...
Knight Foundation money to be used for Knowledge Engine project that aims to discover "reliable and trustworthy public information on the Internet." The Wikimedia Foundation is getting back into ...
Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered ...
The Wikipedia community just successfully pushed back against cryptocurrency. On Sunday, the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which owns and operates Wikipedia, announced that it would no longer ...