The editing for the Wikipedia page devoted to Microsoft's Windows 8 has been disabled after someone deleted much of its content and replaced it with message of hate against the OS. More...

Microsoft has announced that Rudy Huyn's Windows Phone Wikipedia app won in the voting for the Next App Star competition and will be featured in an upcoming Windows Phone TV commercial. More...

Rudy Huyn has updated his third-party Wikipedia app, which is now at version 2.0, to Windows Phone 8. The update includes 720p support and now features live tiles and voice recognition. More...

WIkimedia has updated Wikipedia's web app to allow users to log in, view and add pages to their watchlists, making it even easier to protect articles from spammers and troublemakers. More...

The list of the top 100 most viewed English articles on Wikipedia is in, and the #1 spot is claimed by the Facebook article with over 32 million views. Others in the list are somewhat surprising More...

Google seems to have introduced some new functionality for their main search engine, adding additional clarification to famous names and what they are most primarily celebrated for. More...

Wikipedia suffered an unexpected outage yesterday, but the specifics of the incident weren't understood until today. The outage was caused by cut cables at its data center in Florida. More...

Wikipedia is currently down to unknown network problems, and currently, there is no estimated time for the problem to be resolved. Workarounds are available to users who need to access the pages. More...

Due to a controversial law being considered by Russia's State Parliament which could allow the blacklisting of websites, Wikipedia has closed itself for a one-day protest again. More...

A new survey says that 60 percent of the articles about specific businesses on Wikipedia contain factual errors and that it takes a long time, if ever, to see those errors corrected. More...

Wikipedia has announced that future versions of its iOS and Android apps will no longer use Google Maps for the apps' nearby view feature, in favor of OpenStreetMap. More...

Encyclopaedia Britannica announced this week that it would no longer offer a print version of its encyclopedia after 244 years in order to concentrate on its online editions. More...

As promised a few months ago, the Wikipedia domain names have now been moved from GoDaddy over to MarkMonitor, thanks in part to GoDaddy's previously announced, and then retracted, support of SOPA. More...

The day after its SOPA/PIPA blackout, the Wikipedia web site announced that over 162 million people viewed the blackout page. The site urged people to continue to contact their elected representatives More...

As promised, Wikipedia's English language web site is now down for 24 hours with only a message protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act. Other web sites will join the protests later today. More...

The head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has issued a statement slamming the upcoming "blackout" protests of the Stop Online Piracy Act that are scheduled for Wednesday. More...

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has confirmed that the free online encyclopedia will join other web sites and will shut down operations for 24 hours on Wednesday, January 18 to protest SOPA. More...

Wikipedia has announced that its annual fundraising drive has now reached its goal of $20 million, allowing the free online encyclopedia to remain online for another year of operations. More...

It's Wikipedia's annual fundraising drive, where Jimmy Wales stares into your soul and asks for your help, but it appears it may not be enough this year after the organization starts emailing users. More...

In a protest against proposed wiretapping laws, the Italian Wikipedia has been hidden. Bosses warn that such laws threaten Wikipedia's freedom philosophies, and might lead to a permanent closure. More...

Wikipedia is 10 years old now and the largest source of knowledge in the land. Available in more than 250 languages and with over 3.5 million articles in English, there is no arguing that Wikipedia... More...

Wikipedia, the "Free Encyclopedia" available in 262 languages first opened its doors on 15 January in 2001. Ten years has almost passed by and the Wikimedia Foundation is set out to make this a memorable... More...

Neowin reported on Sunday that Wikipedia co-founder and chairman emeritus Jimmy Wales had relinquished his editing and content management roles at Wikimedia. This was because he came under unrelenting fire from the Wikimedia community... More...

After Fox News broke a story in April about Wikimedia hosting pornographic images on its servers, company co-founder and president Jimmy Wales started single-handedly purging the Wikimedia databases of all things deemed pornographic. These actions... More...

Originally announced back in March of this year, Wikipedia today announced plans to roll out a new theme and several new features to improve the usability of the site. In brief, the main things that will... More...

If the title on this Amazon.com book (Culture of Pakistan: Culture of Pakistan. Pakistani literature, Urdu, Books and publishing in Pakistan, Pakistani poetry, List of Urdu language poets, Music of Pakistan) seems suspicious to you,... More...

Staple student reference site Wikipedia has come under some hard times recently. The English language version of the site is crying out for $7.5 million USD worth of support to keep the site up and... More...

Wikipedia is, quite possibly, one of the most famous websites on the Internet; it's a great wealth of knowledge, with pages on nearly every single subject, though it comes with a catch... anybody can edit... More...

Yesterday, in an unprecedented decision, Wikipedia's court-like body ArbCom handed down a project-wide ban of all IP addresses owned by Scientology for disruptive editing and coordinating their edits to maintain their status quo including "persistent... More...

Children's charities in the UK have expressed what they call "serious concerns" that some Internet service providers have still not blocked websites showing child sex abuse. The British government asked ISPs to block child porn,... More...

After catching a quick tweet from Robert Scoble I stumbled across a live video feed Scoble was producing with the folks from Kosmix. Kosmix is an "alternative search engine" that received $20 million of funding... More...

Wikimedia Foundation, the company behind the Wikipedia website, set themselves a target in 2008 for donations and announced today they reached it. Running a website like Wikipedia costs a lot of money and asking... More...

Google recently announced Knol, a new experimental website that puts information online in a way that encourages authorial attribution. Unlike articles for the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which anyone is free to revise, Knol articles... More...

Google has a new goal: help people share their knowledge. That’s right - forget Wikis, and welcome Knols (apparently "knol" stands for “unit of knowledge”). Although the service is right now invitation-only, the search giant... More...

I have yet to meet a teacher or professor who does not despise students who research using Wikipedia. That said, I want to meet University of Washington-Bothell professor Martha Groom, as she seems to have... More...

Later this year, the German language version of Wikipedia will restrict instant editing and limit "trusted editors" to look over the content before it appears online, making Germany the first country to wield tighter control... More...

Wikipedia, the popular user-driven online encyclopedia, has published its two-millionth English version listing: an article about Spanish television show El Hormiguero posted on September 10, 2007. After English, the next two largest Wikipedia sites are... More...

The original entry stated: 'Halo 3, the third game in the best-selling Xbox game franchise Halo, is a highly anticipated first-person shooter video game under development by Bungie Studios for the Xbox 360 and is... More...

Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order... More...

Does the world need open-source search tools? The people at Wikipedia think so. The folks behind the public encyclopedia have launched Wikia, a project to develop a search engine, crawlers and other... More...

WIKIPEDIA volunteers have begun working on an offline version of the online encyclopaedia that can be distributed on CD. A preliminary version of the CD was released earlier this month. The goal is to extend... More...

A recent scandal involving the fabricated identity of a Wikipedia editor is causing some to rethink the way in which user-driven sites should evaluate content. The concern stems from the story of a Wikipedia contributor... More...

According to comScore Networks' Thursday report, January 2007 marks the first time when US-based Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia (including Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews and of course Wikipedia encyclopaedias) cracked the top ten list of most popular... More...

Here's the newest from Sen. Ted Stevens, the man who described the Internet as a series of tubes: It's time for the federal government to ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from... More...

Rick Jelliffe, a software engineer living in Sydney, Australia, publically said on his blog that he was offered payment by Microsoft (via e-mail) to edit certain entries on Wikipedia. CEO of XML tools company Topologi,... More...

As Wikipedia's user base grows, the charm of the site for spammers grows. The online encyclopaedia's popularity and its ease of editing made has made it a desirable target for link spammers - successfully placing... More...

A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. The entry for the W32.Blaster worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false... More...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica has lashed out at a recent study by Nature which claimed that Wikipedia "comes close" to Britannica's accuracy in covering scientific topics. Nature compared 50 entries in the online versions of both... More...

Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work. Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very... More...

Unlike the GMail storage increase, Google Gulp is one of the first big April Fools jokes floating around the internet this year: "At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and... More...