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Hundreds of Wikipedia Editors Caught Promoting Brands
Hundreds of Wikipedia editors have been banned from the online encyclopaedia after being found promoting products and brands within articles for pay. Wikipedia’s CheckUser team has been investigating suspected brand promotion for a number of months, and banned 381 editors between April and August, with suspicions that companies had been…
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Wikipedia Wants to Stop the EU From Banning Photos Taken in Public Places
Do you like to read about public places and see how they look like? Wikipedia is full of the latter information, giving its users a chance to read about all sorts of places of interest. The thing is, Wikipedia is the main source of information when searching for just about…
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Wikipedia Adds an Extra Layer of Security for Its Readers
Wikipedia just took security up a notch and added some extra security measures for its readers. The founders want to make connections between Wikimedia websites and their users more secure to share and view content. The extra security measure involves HTTPS as the default encryption protocol being used from now…
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NASA Patches Curiosity Rover’s Chem Cam from 235 Million Miles Away
As if the people at NASA haven’t been doing enough awesome stuff lately they just did one insanely long distance software upgrade. The Curiosity rover just got the auto-focus of its “Chem Cam” improved with an update while it is wandering around Mars. In case you forgot Mars is currently…
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Wikipedia Sues the NSA
Wikipedia has filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency (NSA) over the anti-constitutional nature of its internet mass surveillance program, as revealed by whistleblower and former NSA employee Edward Snowden. The suit, which also names the US Department of Justice (DoJ) as a defendant, accuses the government…
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Explore the Wikipedia Galaxy
Ever wondered what Wikipedia’s 100,000 most popular articles look like as a galaxy? No, me neither. But at least we can with this, WikiGalaxy a website that literally does that – it allows you to explore the encyclopaedia’s top articles from last year as a galaxy. Each page in the ‘galaxy’ is…
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Government Computer Linked to Hundreds of Anonymous Wikipedia Edits
Either someone employed at a Government facility has way to much time on his hand or some automatic process is running. One that is editing hundreds of Wikipedia entries each month, sometimes up to 90 a day and always during work hours. The edits themselves are harmless and mostly made to…
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Wikipedia Releases First Year in Review Video
Wikipedia has released its first annual year in review video. The video is somewhat similar to Google’s video from Tuesday, highlighting the year’s big events. The video touches on Ebola, the World Cup, Robin Williams and more – all through the medium of the many millions of Wikipedia articles. It…
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Ice Bucket Challenge helps ALS Wikipedia Page Views Grow 18-fold
We’ve been covering quite a lot of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge recently – from Destiny’s Ghost taking up the call, to some very heart wrenching and moving videos. However, the question is quite often asked on social media by many – what is this actually doing for ALS awareness? Well, thanks to the…
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Wikipedia Scores $140.000 in Bitcoin Donations
Just over a week ago, Wikipedia announced that it would now be accepting donations in form of bitcoins. The first week of of the new donation system is over and according to Coinbase, Wikipedia made a solid $140.000 worth of donations in bitcoin during that time. “The news as suggest the…
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Wikipedia Entry Regarding MH17 Crash Reportedly Edited by the Russian Government
Changes spotted by a Twitter bot which monitors Wikipedia edits from Russian government IP addresses indicate that an Internet user revised a Wikipedia entry regarding Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Since the bot monitors government IPs, the only conclusion drawn is that someone within the Russian government wanted to make some…
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Publisher Wants To Print All Of Wikipedia
Wikipedia is both a blessing and a curse for many of us, it’s a great resource of knowledge that you can call upon for that brief moment you need a fact, an answer for a quiz, or to gain insight into something you’re researching. The only issue is that it…
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Future Generations Get To Know How Important People Sounded Like Through Wikipedia
Wikipedia is starting to add celebrity and other public figure voices to one of its projects, called WikiVIP, which stands for “Wikipedia Voice Intro Project”. What is it you ask? Well, Wikipedia thought it could do with some voices through all its article lines, namely important and known people will…
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Wikipedia Pushing Ahead With Encryption To Lock NSA Out
Wikipedia is taking steps to ensure that the NSA cannot spy on it or its users by adding encryption to the website wherever possible according to RT. Users that login will now have to use secure encryption when on the site and visitors to the website will use the HTTPS…
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Russia’s SOPA-Equivalent Could Shut Down Wikipedia
We already brought you news of Russia’s SOPA-like legislation which is still on track to pass and come into effect by August. Now a new report by TorrentFreak suggests that the Russian SOPA could see sites like Wikipedia, Google and Yandex shut down. According to Wikimedia Russia executive director, “Stanislav…
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