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Real Time Map Reveals Articles Being Edited In Wikipedia
05/14/2013, To say that Wikipedia is an extremely popular site is an understatement, considering how a network outage in the past resulted in many students floundering as to who they could cite in their assignments as “facts”. In fact, using Wikipedia [...]
New Wikimedia Commons App Makes Photo Donation To Wikipedia A Breeze
04/29/2013, Almost all internet using folks have landed upon Wikipedia at some point in their lives. The online encyclopedia has become a vital part of the internet and is heavily relied upon by students, professionals and the average Joe and Jane from around [...]
Wikipedia’s Sister Travel Site “Wikivoyage” Launched
01/15/2013, We already mentioned that the Wikimedia Foundation will be officially launching its travel site, WikiVoyage, today, the 15th of January. Well, just in time for 12th anniversary founding of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation is announcing the launch of its free online [...]
Wikimedia Foundation’s ‘Wikivoyage’ Travel Site Launching On January 15th
01/10/2013, Wikimedia Foundation’s next project is a travel site. Yes, a free web-based site filled with guides and travel destinations, with travel topics written by volunteer authors – a move Wikimedia Foundation is known for. It’s called Wikivoyage, and it will [...]
Wikipedia Most Searched Articles Of 2012
12/28/2012, Wikipedia has released their list of 2012’s most read articles, which proved to be quite an interesting look at what was popular across the world, in different languages of the online encyclopedia, of course. Facebook came up tops in the [...]
You’re About To See Videos in Your Wikipedia
11/08/2012, While there are some videos currently embedded on Wikipedia pages–according to this category, 244 of them–Wikipedia isn’t really known as a place where people upload and watch videos. The problem is that Wikipedia’s old video player only played Ogg files. [...]
Wikipedia hit by network outage
08/06/2012, I was about to search for more information regarding the updated OpenGL this morning via Wikipedia when I noticed that it didn’t return any search results. It turns out that the world’s beloved free online encyclopedia has experienced a technical [...]
Wikimedia launches new prototype “visual editor” for Wikipedia
06/21/2012, Who doesn’t love using the largest multilingual free encyclopedia on the Internet that is Wikepedia? Today, Wikimedia – the San Francisco-based organization operating Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, and many others – is launching the new prototype “visual editor”. The new visual [...]
Wikipedia banner ads could mean that your PC has malware
05/14/2012, You’ve probably used Wikipedia before. It has the become the go to guy on the Internet – a McGuyver all the way. Of course, there are other awesome resources too that we like. But in case you used Wikipedia this [...]
Wikipedia’s mobile app drops Google Maps in favor of OpenStreetMaps
04/06/2012, If you are an iOS user and you’re looking to download or update the Wikipedia app for your device, you will be interested to learn that it looks like Wikipedia has decided to drop the use of Google Maps in [...]
Official Wikipedia app released for Android
01/18/2012, It took awhile, but it’s finally here: the official Wikipedia app for Android is now available for download on the Android Market. Just in case you’re wondering why anybody would use the app instead of surfing the website on your [...]
Access Wikipedia during today’s blackout
01/18/2012, In case you didn’t already know, Wikipedia will be down for the whole of today (January 18th) in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, along with a bunch of other sites. But what you may not know is that [...]
Wikipedia shuts down for 24 hours this Wednesday in SOPA protest
01/16/2012, Students, cross your heart for you know how much Wikipedia has helped you out in your assignments to date – so those who have deadlines to meet might want to take note on this piece of news, where the founder [...]
