Neowin News Feed for: Wikimedia

Wikipedia's privacy at risk under UK Online Safety Act, legal challenge to be heard

Paul Hill — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:02:01 +0000

Wikimedia, the organization behind Wikipedia, is going to challenge some of the provisions of the UK's Online Safety Act related to user verification. Read more...

ChatGPT scores 49 million pageviews, becomes Wikipedia's most viewed article in 2023

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:44:01 +0000

ChatGPT grabbed the crown of the most-viewed page on Wikipedia in 2023 with 49 million views. Read about the top 25 Wikipedia pages that generated the most number of pageviews this year. Read more...

Google to pay for Wikipedia content displayed in 'Knowledge Panel' and search results

Alap Naik Desai — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 21:10:01 +0000

Google and Wikimedia have entered into a formal agreement to pay for content the search giant sources from Wikipedia. Additionally, Internet Archive which operates Wayback Machine will benefit. Read more...

Wikimedia's Content Translation tool has helped create a million articles

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 04:26:01 +0000

The Wikimedia Foundation is celebrating the fact that its Content Translation tool, which launched in 2014, has now contributed to more than one million articles on Wikipedia, boosting knowledge. Read more...

Wikimedia announces reception of $2.5 million donation after DDOS attack on Wikipedia

Hamza Jawad — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:50:01 +0000

The Wikimedia Foundation is receiving $2.5 million in support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies. This news comes in the wake of a DDOS attack last week on Wikipedia that is still being investigated. Read more...

Wikipedia to build speech synthesis for the visually and learning impaired

Boyd Chan — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 03:14:01 +0000

In a joint endeavor with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, Wikipedia is set to implement new open source text-to-speech capabilities spanning several languages by September 2017. Read more...

Wikipedia turns 15 years old today

Justin Luna — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:02:01 +0000

The popular free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has turned 15 years old today, since its launch in 2001. The service has grown to incorporate more articles, many of which are in different languages. Read more...

Wikipedia blocks 381 accounts for "dishonest editing" (aka: being paid to edit)

Steven Parker — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:48:48 +0000

While Wikipedia is a great source of unbiased info, there are entities who seek to beef up their pages in return for compensation, which is an ongoing battle that the foundation wants to stamp out. Read more...

Wikimedia Foundation sues the NSA, looking to end the mass surveillance program

Adrian Potoroaca — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:02:01 +0000

The nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia is joining forces with eight other organizations to sue the NSA, aiming to put an end to the mass surveillance program that also affects its users. Read more...

Wikipedia goes down in Russia in protest at new law

Paul Ferson — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:13:11 +0000

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. Read more...

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales denies Fox News allegations

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:00:54 +0000

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... Read more...

Some UK ISPs have not blocked child porn sites

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:27:57 +0000

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,... Read more...