Amazon makes second $1M gift to Wikimedia Endowment, to help power online encyclopedia Amazon has doubled up on its commitment to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, as a new $1 million gift from the… Read More
Amazon donates $1M to Wikipedia’s nonprofit parent organization Amazon has donated $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment, a fund that keeps the online encyclopedia Wikipedia running. In a… Read More
Arch Mission teams up with Astrobotic to send Wikipedia and more to the moon The Arch Mission Foundation is partnering with Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to have a miniaturized library sent to the moon’s surface aboard… Read More
Geek of the Week: Monika Sengul-Jones is a Wikipedian-in-Residence, making libraries and the online encyclopedia ‘better together’ Monika Sengul-Jones is, more or less, she says, “a professional thinker.” With a background in social theory and a focus… Read More
BlackPast.org unlocks a treasure trove of African American history, aided by passionate volunteer editors You may be surprised to learn that BlackPast.org, the most comprehensive African American and African history website in the nation… Read More
Seattle-based project to make librarians Wikipedia stars wins $250K in Knight News Challenge The Seattle office of the Online Computer Library Center has been awarded $250,000 as one of the winners of the… Read More
Meet the man ridding Wikipedia of ‘comprised of,’ one edit at a time Everyone’s got a pet peeve when it comes to grammar, but one man’s quest to rid Wikipedia of the phrase “comprised… Read More
Rise up: Nanobots, biodomes, brain-computer interfaces and other technologies that could destroy us While it’s fun to think about all the ways technology helps us lead better lives, it’s also fun to take… Read More
Paul Allen bankrolls Wikidata: Project to help Wikipedia editors more easily enter information It sure has been a busy couple of weeks for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. From squashing rumors about the sale… Read More
And so it begins: Wikipedia turns off the lights and Google blacks out logo in SOPA protest Sorry students, journalists, Internet researchers and just about everyone else looking for a tidbit of information related to, well, just… Read More
Can this song help kill SOPA? ‘The Day the LOLcats Died’ The campaign to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act has lots of support from some of the Internet’s biggest names,… Read More
A day without Wikipedia? Um, try these Encarta CD-ROMs Yes, kids, there was a time when Wikipedia didn’t exist, and it looks like we’re going to be transported back… Read More
