Tag: JIMMYWALES

Some of you may have noticed recently, while making one of those all-too-familiar sojourns to look up useless info about canceled TV shows and dead celebrities, that there's a giant banner across the top of Wikipedia. It directs you to a page that asks (nay, begs) for donations to help sustain the world's largest free and community-editable repository of knowledge. Last year, during its annual ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales recently turned snitch on his former Wiki-compatriots, but he probably won't make too many enemies for doing so (outside of the Wikimedia Commons circles, at least). Wales reportedly alerted federal authorities to the presence of child pornography under two separate Commons categories, saying "I ...

The Web has been part of the public consciousness for roughly 20 years now. But it was only in the last decade that we saw the Internet start to realize its full potential. Services offering music, social networking, online storage, collaborative document editing, and all else sprung up by the thousands. Of course, this period of experimentation, exploration, and growth was bound to leave a few ...

The Internet generation's resource of choice may soon be toning down the radical nature of its editorial process, according to the New York Times. After anonymous visitors edited the Wikipedia entries of Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy, only to falsely read that they had both passed away on Inauguration Day, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales implied -- via his user page -- that the online ...