Wikivoyage, the newest project by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), was launched on January 15, 2013, the 12th anniversary of Wikipedia. Like its sister projects, the ad-free worldwide travel guide available in nine languages can be edited by anyone. ...
03:16 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Moscow: Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia, has launched a new project enabling registered users to post videos, according to the portal's press service. "A new video player has been enabled on Wikipedia and its sister sites, and it comes with the promise of bringing free educational videos to more people, on more devices, in more languages," Wikimedia Foundation said Friday. Wikipedia articles have remained largely text-based until now. The...
10:36 AM, Nov 10, 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
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
