History, they say, is written by the winners. Luckily for fans of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, the same can’t be said about Wikipedia.
After famously mangling the story of Paul Revere when she visited Boston last week – instead of riding to warn the colonists that the British were coming, Palin said that he warned the …
London-based software engineer Gareth Lloyd and colleague Tom Martin created this wonderful video of the history of the world – well, of Wikipedia’s history of the world, at any rate.
It turns out that no less than 424,171 Wikipedia articles have geographical co-ordinates and dates associated with them. Cross-reference the two, and …
TIME is doing an upcoming 10 Questions with Jimmy Wales, aka the co-founder of Wikipedia and the guy asking you for money each time you do some “research” on the site. He had some interesting answers about the past, present and future of the company, and we want you to ask the questions.
If I had a question for him, I would ask him …
Not many of us click on the plea from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales that always sits on the top of each page, but it seems this time the need for money is serious. The Wikimedia Foundation told Techland that they need $16 million to remain ad free.
Last years wikipediathon raised $8 million, mostly from user donations and some larger …
Because I’m a Trekkie now, this matters to me.
As part of its new site redesign, Wikipedia unveiled a new, altered logo. Turns out they’ve swapped out the Vulcan character for puny “actual language” Amharic. (New logo is on the left.) The audacity…
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