Wish you a happy 20th, Wiki bhai!Here’s to the strange repository of (largely) dependable information
Fine tuning: 15 most edited pages on WikipediaTo celebrate its 15-year anniversary, Wikipedia has released data of pages which have been edited the most over the course of its existence.
Fake in India? Nehru Wiki edit sparks war of words between Congress and BJP supporters in TwitterCongress supporters unleashed a political campaign against the BJP government over anonymous edits to the Jawaharlal Nehru Wiki.
New app tracks Wikipedia edits by bots and humansTo keep entries coming and to keep them updated, bots have been created to grab information from one place and post them into another.
Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languagesIn the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-bas...
- WikiLeaks feud escalates: defector accused of sabotage
A feud that has opposed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and a former German assistant at the anti-secrecy website, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, ...
- Satirical WikiLeaks rap featuring Assange's cameo takes Internet by storm
A footage of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange making a cameo appearance on a satirical rap show has become an Internet hit.
- Hacker attack crashes Wikileaks website
An apparent hacker attack crashed the Wikileaks website Sunday, just as 250,000 leaked US diplomatic despatches were being made public, but...
- WikiLeaks releases 250,000 diplomatic cables; White House condemns
WikiLeaks latest release reveals details like incidences of bargaining by embassies around the world and frank assessments of nuclear and t...
- Review: Pocket encyclopedia, WikiReader
WikiReader is the size of a thick table coaster, and contains nearly the entire text of the English Wikipedia.
- Apple sued for stifling iPod tricks
Internet rights champions on Monday accused Apple of stifling free speech by bullying OdioWorks into ending online sharing of ways to get i...
- Apple sued for stifling iPod tricks
Internet rights champions on Monday accused Apple of stifling free speech by bullying OdioWorks into ending online sharing of ways to get i...
- Encyclopaedia Britannica to let readers edit content
Encyclopaedia Britannica, the authoritative reference book first published in 1768, is to let readers edit its entries, it said, as it batt...
- Wikipedia seeks more contributors from India
With close to 277 million users visiting it every month, Wikipedia needs more contributors or participants from India, and also the world.
- Wiki-community strives to extend eastward
There are many reasons for Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to take interest in India. One of them is the need for balance in socio-geog...
- Google unveils custom search, kills Lively
Google has unveiled a new tool which allows users to customize search results and announced it is ending its virtual world experiment, Live...
- Wikipedia planning search engine
As part of efforts to widen its reach and showcase the power of "wikis", online encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning a search engine that is ...