In the past few seconds, someone from Canada edited the Wikipedia page for The Hangover Part III while another person in Fresno, California tweaked the page for Armenian cuisine. It keeps on going. The world is constantly editing Wikipedia, whether it be for a 'List of Playstation 2 games' or 'Status of same-sex marriage' or 'Airbnb', we're all crowdsourcing our smartness. And you can watch where the world is getting smarter in realtime. Read More >>
French agents at the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI), apparently turning their attention to Wikipedia for the first time in years, demanded last month that the Wikimedia Foundation delete an entry about a military radio relay station written in 2009. Read More >>
Given the right state of mind, enough time on your hands, and a can-do attitude, your casual Wikipedia browsing can quickly devolve into bizarre, horrifying, and very likely entirely fabricated black holes of information. Dark corners and seedy underbellies abound, making it virtually impossible to find all of the site's most curiously unsettling stores of information. Information, for example, like this, or this, or even this. Read More >>
Over the past three years, Wikipedia member West.andrew.g bas been analysing the weird and wonderful data traffic on the English-language Wikipedia. In the the latest edition of Wikipedia's community-managed newspaper, The Signpost, he's revealed the biggest traffic spikes on the site within that time—in the process proving that we're all morbid sports fan. Read More >>
There's a stonking nerd battle going on in the editor comments section of Star Trek: Into Darkness Wikipedia listing, where furious fans have so far penned 45,000 words on the subject of whether the "into" part of "Into Darkness" should be capitalised or not. Read More >>
Featured comment by adamj.thornton:
"Typing into Google (or the browser bar with google search) for "wiki" gives the Wiki article as the first result, not the Wikipedia homepage.
I oft..." More »
Every so often, the great Internet resource that everyone uses Wikipedia starts asking people for donations. This year a gigantic morning pee-coloured banner pops up asking for a few bucks so the lights can stay on and we can all get free information. It's a great cause! Can you imagine the internet without Wikipedia? But have any of you guys ever donated? Read More >>
Featured comment by Swist:
"Since I've recently become a full-time student again, I donated £5 (not much, but I've got beans to buy). I figured since I'd be using it a lot over ..." More »
Despite carrying user-generated content, Wikipedia has often been criticised for being tough to edit - even by its co-founder Jimmy Wales. But researchers have found another way in which the Web 2.0 wonder might leave people gnashing their teeth: it's much harder to read than that old favourite of doorstep salesmen, Encyclopedia Britannica. Read More >>
Featured comment by otaviokz:
"I don't thing dumbing down is a good option for a knowledge repository. Maybe offering multiple versions of the articles on complex matters could be a..." More »
Wikipedia is an amazing website. In fact, it's probably become such an integral part of your life that you hardly give it much thought except for when messages start popping up at the top of the screen, asking for your financial aid. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"Absolutely massive, just the data without user content such as images is terabytes. Some of the articles can get even bigger with the all the larger p..." More »
If it’s not already, the Wikipedia page on Hurricane Sandy will become the most widely viewed internet resource on the storm. And as PopSci discovered, it’s being largely controlled by a 56-year-old, unemployed Floridian who doesn’t believe in rising global temperatures. Read More >>
Featured comment by lancsDavid:
"doesn't seem like an issue to me either.
i am a big believer in humans being the cause of some kind of climate change. i mean, can't see how we c..." More »
Sure, maybe Philip Roth won about a hundred literary awards, and maybe he's one of the most accomplished living American authors, but thanks to Wikipedia's moronic rules about needing secondary sources, he wasn't allowed to correct factual errors about his own book. So he took up his mighty pen and did something about it—he created his own source. Read More >>
Featured comment by EtherealKid:
"Yeah, article title should be "How Philip Roth complied with Wikipedia's Rules". He could have just published a page on his own website stating that ..." More »
Wikipedia's big boss Jimmy Wales has warned that the site will start treating the UK like a war-torn police state, encrypting all data sent here should the government push ahead with its so-called Snooper's Charter. Read More >>
Featured comment by Udimion:
"Fair enough. The arnica didn't actually work for me, but I think the worst suggestion was to try accupuncture for tendonitis - I actually burst out la..." More »
In a post on The Signpost, Wikimedia Foundation Senior Designer Brandon Harris outlined a radical set of goals to improve Wikipedia over the next year. In short, the encyclopedia is a broken, disorganised mess and the whole system for creating and editing articles needs a fundamental overhaul. Here's how he plans to fix it. Read More >>
Featured comment by Cloudfire:
"They're a massive bunch of dicks over at Wikipedia.
It's the archetypal geek with a little knowledge and a lot of power. I've tried a few times to ..." More »
Yesterday, everyone's go-to online source for free information (cited or not) was knocked offline for a couple of hours, thanks to a bunch of accidentally cut cables near a data centre in Florida. Read More >>
The boss of the Wikipedia charity who found himself at the centre of a bizarre porn photo and editing scandal has resigned from Wikimedia UK, to help smooth over the cracks opening up within the Wiki world. Read More >>
Featured comment by DoghouseReilly:
"Not in the context of the article, but the term 'Porn Storm'; is that a good or a bad thing? Sounds good, until you think about it, and then it could ..." More »
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