Topic: Jay Walsh
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has not given up any of his editorial privileges, despite reports to the contrary, the Wikimedia Foundation said Monday. In a blog post written Monday morning, Wikimedia Foundation communications director Jay Walsh formally addressed a growing controversy that ...
Change is afoot in the Wikipedia community, according to a report from Fox News, but the reality may be less drastic than has been reported. The news agency is reporting that Wikimedia Foundation co-founder Jimmy Wales is relinquishing his top-level editorial control ...
<div><p>Wikipedia on Wednesday strongly rejected its departed co-founder's accusation that the online encyclopedia served up child pornography.</p><p>"Our community abhors issues around pornography and pedophilia and they don't want to provide opportunities for these things to ...
Since its earliest days in 2001, Wikipedia's fundamental user experience has gone through a series of small, iterative changes, but the site has never had a significant overhaul. Now the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, announced that it would ...
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" already has more than three million articles in English alone, covering nearly all major companies and a lot of minor ones as well. "If our potential customers want to learn about something, they either go ...
Wikipedia is testing plans to thwart pranksters and vandals by stalling edits to English articles about living people until the online encyclopedia verifies new information.The tightened editing practice being mulled by the communally crafted repository of world facts is called " "We ...
Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the user-written online encyclopedia.. Confirming a story ...
Wikipedia said it has released an iPhone application as part of a drive to open the pages of its revered online encyclopedia to the booming ranks of smart phone users.Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, made free software for iPhones ...
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is "absolutely" not out of a job at the Wikimedia Foundation, according to the foundation's director of communications. Jimmy is a much-valued board member of the Wikimedia Foundation, and I expect he will hold that role permanently ...
Wikipedia meets $6 million fundraising goal with 6 months left in campaignThe nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its $6 million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008.With about six months left ...
