Tagged: Jimmy Wales & News
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Welsh town Monmouth to be world’s first ‘Wikipedia town’ News
18.05.2012 From being the birthplace of King Henry V in 1387 to being a tech innovation hub for Wikipedia in 2012, the small town of Monmouth in Wales is set to become the world’s first... -
Tech tweets of the week News
28.01.2012 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Tech tweets of the week News
21.01.2012 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Wikipedia to black out: SOPA’s gone but PIPA is still ‘dangerous’ News
17.01.2012 Wikipedia will black out the English-language version of its online encyclopaedia from 5am tomorrow (18 January) to 5am on Thursday (19 January) to protest the Stop Online...Categories: Multimedia, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Education, Digital Media -
Tech tweets of the week News
14.01.2012 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Tech tweets of the week News
19.11.2011 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Tech tweets of the week News
08.10.2011 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Tech tweets of the week News
17.09.2011 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Tech tweets of the week News
27.08.2011 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Tech tweets of the week News
13.08.2011 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Tech tweets of the week News
30.07.2011 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Wikipedia celebrates its 10th birthday News
15.01.2011 Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is celebrating its 10th birthday today. -
Wikimedia dumps porn following FoxNews probe News
10.05.2010 Wikimedia, the parent company of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is executing the immediate deletion from all of its websites of what Jimmy Wales is calling 'pornographic...Tags: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, -
Facebook is the No 1 website in the world News
28.05.2010 Google’s DoubleClick AdPlanner stats have confirmed Facebook is the top visited destination on the internet, with 570 billion page views and 540 million visitors. -
‘Openness is not the enemy of quality,’ Wikipedia founder says News
24.11.2009 The openness of internet phenomenon Wikipedia will lead to better knowledge, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says, and adds that his proudest moment was seeing the open-source...Categories: New Media -
Wikipedia fights 'living dead' celebrities News
26.08.2009 The continual submission of false articles reporting the supposed death of various celebrities, known as 'wikicide', has led Wikipedia to tight its controls on the editing of...Categories: Digital LifeTags: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, -
Wikipedia founder abandons search, blames economy News
01.04.2009 When Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales turned his attention to human-ranked search, after mastering community-powered online reference, he probably didn't expect the end result of...Categories: New Media, Digital Life -
Wikipedia’s free culture survives with US$6.2m in donations News
05.01.2009 All free content must be supported by advertising, right? That’s the way most media models work, but one hugely popular website that has managed to avoid this on principle is...Categories: Digital LifeTags: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales