New York: Online encyclopedia Wikipedia will black out its website tomorrow for 24 hours to protest anti-piracy bills under consideration in the US Congress, saying if passed, the "destructive" legislation will "endanger" free speech and impose censorship on international websites. "In an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States the Stop...
04:29 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New York: Wikipedia, the popular community-edited online encyclopedia, will black out its English-language site for 24 hours to seek support against proposed US anti-piracy legislation that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said threatens the future of the Internet. The US service will be the highest profile name to join a growing campaign starting at midnight Eastern Time on Wednesday that will see it black out its page so that visitors will...
07:41 AM, Jan 17, 2012
San Francisco: Wikipedia has raised $20 million in its annual plea for donations to help expand and improve the Internet's leading encyclopedia. More than 1 million people throughout the world contributed the money during a 46-day fundraising drive, which concluded Sunday. The amount pledged to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group that oversees the volunteer-driven Wikipedia, is a third more than the $15 million donated during the previous year's fundraising...
02:03 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Moscow: The co-founder of Google, Sergei Brin, has donated $500,000 to Wikipedia's foundation, Wikimedia, the foundation said on its web site Saturday. Brin granted $500,000 from The Brin Wojcicki Foundation, the charity fund run by him and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, reported RIA Novosti. The money however will not cover all Wikipedia's annual budget of $28.3 million. This week Wikipedia started its annual fund-rising campaign that is due to last...
01:24 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Jimmy Wales said he supports the idea that corruption in the government is something we have to take seriously. ...
08:46 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Mumbai: When looking for a one stop source of information on virtually anything under the sun, more often than not people turn to Wikipedia, a site on which ordinary people who are armed with simple internet access can update information as it happens when it happens. Co-founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, who is in India for the three-day Wiki conference, said that the idea for the online encyclopaedia came to...
07:42 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Doha: One of the world's most popular websites Wikipedia has turned its focus on India this year, and is working to reach out to people in the country as part of its expansion plans. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said that the free Internet encyclopedia has a bunch of people on the ground in India conducting studies and outreach exercises. "This year our focus has been India. We have a few...
09:26 AM, Nov 07, 2011
Doha: One of the world's most popular websites Wikipedia has turned its focus on India this year, and is working to reach out to people in the country as part of its expansion plans. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said that the free Internet encyclopedia has a bunch of people on the ground in India conducting studies and outreach exercises. "This year our focus has been India. We have a few...
08:37 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Haifa, Israel: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is written entirely by volunteers and allows anyone to edit its entries, is losing contributors, its founder complained Thursday. Speaking with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the website's annual conference, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the nonprofit company that runs the site is scrambling to simplify editing procedures in an attempt to retain volunteers. "We are not replenishing our ranks," said...
07:32 AM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: Whenever we want to know something about something we log on to Wikipedia. Even though the information is not always correct, the online encyclopaedia manages to, more often than not, quench our thirst for knowledge. On Wikipedia's 10th anniversary I dug through Wikipedia and its associated websites to come up with 10 Wikipedia trivia that, chances are, you were not aware of: 1. The most Wikipedia 10th anniversary...
12:29 PM, Jan 15, 2011
Bangalore: Wikimedia India Chapter, an independent organisation that will support and promote Wikimedia, a collaborative project of Wikipedia, the world's free online encyclopaedia, has been formally established here. The setting up of the organisation, the first in the Indian subcontinent and the 29th Wikimedia chapter to be established the world over, coincides with the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia tomorrow. The setting up of the Chapter follows an announcement in September...
07:31 AM, Jan 15, 2011
London: Wikipedia's impact on the world has yet to peak as the open online encyclopaedia aims to double its reach, mainly through expansion in developing countries, founder Jimmy Wales told Reuters. Wikipedia already has about 400 million users and is in the top 10 most popular websites in the world. It aims to reach a billion through international expansion, starting with India, where it plans its first office outside the...
06:56 AM, Jan 15, 2011
With 365 million readers and 17 million articles Wikipedia is the eighth most visited website in the world. On January 15, 2011 the world's largest online general reference work completes a decade of its existence. The monthly page views of popular Wikipedia articles run into millions, a figure other mainstream websites will be envious of. The most viewed articles on Wikipedia is also an indicator of worldwide interest on certain...
12:16 PM, Jan 14, 2011
New York: Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to open its first overseas office outside of the United States in India, which will focus on expanding its database in Hindi and all other official languages of the country. India was chosen because of its large population and increasing number of people using the internet especially through mobile phones, according to Sue Gardner, chief of Wikimedia, which is the non-profit organisation...
04:45 PM, Jan 13, 2011
New York: Wikipedia, the online trove of assorted facts and trivia, is trying to be more well-rounded. As the encyclopaedia nears its 10th birthday on Saturday, its leaders are seeking a more diverse group of editors - specifically, women, people in developing countries and people with expertise in assorted disciplines. Wikipedia is about to open an office in India and wants to expand further in Brazil, Egypt and other Middle...
11:34 AM, Jan 13, 2011
New York: With China virtually cut off and Western markets maturing, Wikipedia is targeting India first and possibly Brazil next to reach its goal of 1 billion users, Executive Director Sue Gardner says. The San Francisco-based online encyclopaedia, which turns 10 years old on Saturday, also vows to reach that goal in the next five years while maintaining its status as a non-profit organization. Wikipedia claims 410 million unique visitors...
10:21 AM, Jan 13, 2011
Berlin: An encyclopaedia that anybody can help to write - whether a pupil or a professor? Encyclopaedia entries which are updated from one minute to the next? And all of that financed by reader donations? Ten years ago when online companies vanished almost as quickly as they appeared, nobody thought that a reliable encyclopaedia could go online - without going bankrupt within a few months. And yet, Wikipedia went online...
10:30 AM, Jan 12, 2011
Havana: Cuba has begun its own online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with the goal of presenting its version of the world and history. It describes its longtime ideological enemy, the United States, as "the empire of our time" and "the most powerful nation of all time." EcuRed (www.ecured.cu) will be launched officially on Tuesday, but it was already up and running on Monday, with 19,345 entries. It was developed "to...
10:31 AM, Dec 14, 2010
