Website providers are under increasing pressure to sort out their IPv6 strategy, analyst claims
The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.
Open letter to users asks for support
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has appealed to users to donate to the free online encyclopedia to ‘protect’ the site and the space in which it operates.
The moral of the story: If a product is too hard or frustrating to use, or there are too many barriers to entry, people will turn away
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia built on the backs of a seemingly never-ending supply of free labor, is in a bit of a bind.
'Flagged revisions' allows anonymous people to change some entries, but those edits must be vetted
The English-language Wikipedia should have a system in place by December to vet anonymous edits for certain high-profile entries, according to the online encyclopedia's founder.
An overwhelming 87 percent of Wikipedia contributors are men
Sorry, ladies, but when it comes to questionable online information, it looks like men have the upper hand.
David Beckham was a Chinese goalkeeper in the 18th century
Wikipedia's just announced plans to restrict the editing of some of its articles. Under the new system, any changes made to pages of still-living people will have to be approved by an "experienced volunteer" before going online.
Wiki edits to ber verified by 'experienced volunteers' before publication
The innovative online encyclopedia Wikipedia is growing up, and with its growth comes a massive change to how it operates. Back in its early days, Wikipedia could be edited by anyone. Then it nixed the concept of anonymous edits and required authentication. Now contributors can write what they want, but if editing certain articles, the changes must be verified by an experienced volunteer before publication.
App won't let users access content offline
Wikipedia has launched an app for Apple's iPhone that converts the online encyclopedia's articles into a format that's easy to read on the smartphone.
An official Wikipedia application for the iPhone first saw the light of day today, giving users quick and easy access to oodles of information and hours of directionless fun.
An official Wikipedia application for the iPhone first saw the light of day today, giving users quick and easy access to oodles of information and hours of directionless fun.
Wikipedia's wealth of knowledge is just a quick search away
Wikipedia is a great idea, and increasingly it is establishing itself as a credible source of information on an astonishingly wide array of topics. Most people use it as a quick reference tool, and it's great for that. But if you want to go deeper and become a Wikipedia power user, the following tips and tools will get you started.
The gallery, situated near Trafalgar Square in London, said the online user-generated encyclopaedia had uploaded more than 3,000 copyright protected images from the gallery's own website
The National Portrait Gallery has set off a legal fight against Wikipedia.
Blacklists outpaced by nefarious content
The federal government's Internet filters will be outpaced by the emergence of offensive Web pages and won't stop offensive material appearing in e-mail inboxes, according to the Internet Society of Australia.
Users can also join fan groups and chat on China's biggest online encyclopedia
A Chinese rival of Wikipedia that also lets users join groups and chat as they might on Facebook has drawn on those social elements to pull ahead of its competition.
The change is expected to simplify and increase re-use of Wikipedia content
The Wikimedia Foundation will change the terms under which it licenses the content in Wikipedia, the organization said Thursday.
Deal will boost encyclopedia project via revenue sharing
The Wikimedia Foundation has signed a deal with French operator Orange to bring online encyclopedia Wikipedia to mobile phone users in France, the U.K., Spain and Poland.
