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| Sep 3, 2026 | И снова 3 сентября: Sheeternetes-оператор для Google-таблиц, который лечит сам себя | Недавно я рассказывал про Sheeternetes — оркестратор, у которого control plane живёт в таблицах. Здесь — про следующий логичный шаг: паттерн «оператор», применённый к самим таблицам. Настоящий полноценный Sheeternetes-оператор. Не скрипт вн... |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Спасатели эвакуировали пропавшую на Эльбрусе группу туристов | Спасатели эвакуировали пропавшую на Эльбрусе группу туристов
Группу из восьми альпинистов, пропавших на Эльбрусе, нашли живыми. Их эвакуировали вниз, от дальнейшей помощи они отказались, сообщили в ГУ МЧС по Кабардино-Балкарии.
В МЧС уточни... |
| Aug 9, 2026 | Архипелаг Кузова в Карелии вошел в топ-10 самых удивительных мест России | Архипелаг Кузова в Карелии вошел в топ-10 самых удивительных мест России
Архипелаг Кузова в Карелии вошел в десятку самых удивительных природных мест России по версии Ассоциации туроператоров России (АТОР). Об этом сообщает РИА Новости.
Вый... |
| Jul 3, 2026 | Вместо Телеграма: Самые странные способы передавать сообщения в истории | Тяга к обмену информацией — одна из определяющих человеческую природу черт. Сегодня мы расскажем о самых странных способах передавать сведения на расстоянии, когда о мессенджерах еще и думать не приходилось.Пчелопочта
Потрясающе красивая ан... |
| Jun 20, 2026 | Что будет со звездой, если она поглотит первичную чёрную дыру? | На этой иллюстрации изображена первичная чёрная дыра (ПЧД) внутри звезды, подобной Солнцу. Новые моделирования показывают, что в случае поглощения звездой первичной чёрной дыры возможны два исхода. В одном случае звезда быстро разрушается, ... |
| Jun 7, 2026 | Вы сильно недооцениваете таймеры systemd | Гравюра Яна Питерса Санредама «Пещера Платона»; изображение часов (Wikimedia, лицензия CC BY 3.0); логотип systemd (проект systemd, лицензия CC-BY-SA 4.0)
Как же я люблю метонимичный технологический термин «задача cron». Несмотря на то, что... |
| Apr 2, 2026 | SpaceX подала заявку на IPO и может войти в топ-10 крупнейших компаний мира | SpaceX Илона Маска конфиденциально подала заявку на первичное публичное размещение акций (IPO) с расчетом на оценку более $1,75 трлн. Листинг может пройти уже в июне, что позволит космическому гиганту выйти на биржу раньше крупных ИИ-старта... |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Скромное очарование JFET | TL:DR Полевые транзисторы с управляющим p–n-переходом в большинстве — маломощные устройства, применяемые для усиления малых сигналов. Основное полезное свойство — огромное входное сопротивление и невысокий собственный шум (по сравнению с би... |
| Mar 1, 2026 | RAG vs. Fine-tuning: Optimizing LLM Deployment for Business Needs | Large Language Models (LLMs) offer immense potential. Yet, their deployment involves critical choices. Two primary strategies dominate: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Fine-tuning. Each offers distinct advantages. Selecting the rig... |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Базовый минимум. Часть 3: RAG-системы | Дисклеймер: данная лекция подготовлена в первую очередь для непрофильных студентов магистратуры и аспирантуры, которые используют ИИ в учебной, исследовательской и профессиональной деятельности. Материал носит вводный характер и содержит на... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Check Point announces three startup acquisitions after mixed quarter
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| Jan 27, 2026 | Fundraising platform RaiseNow obtains growth loan to fuel growth and expansion |
RaiseNow provides an all-in-one fundraising platform that transforms how nonprofits, charities, clubs, and social good organizations raise funds in the digital age. Its solution integrates payment processing, CRM systems (like Salesforce a... |
| Jan 22, 2026 | Meta Under Fire: Regulators Demand Action on Illegal Gambling Ads | Meta faces global condemnation. The UK Gambling Commission directly accuses the tech giant of turning a blind eye to illegal gambling advertisements. These illicit ads proliferate across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. Crit... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | UK Watchdog Flags Meta for Hosting Ads Linked to Illegal Gambling | Image: Envato
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has been systematically cashing in on what it publicly claims to prohibit.
The precise amount is hard to quantify in 2025 and 2026, but in 2024 Reuters reckoned Meta made about $16 billion from... |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Wikipedia Monetizes AI Reliance, Securing Future of Free Knowledge | Wikipedia, celebrating 25 years, finalized major agreements with AI leaders including Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. These deals monetize its extensive, human-curated knowledge for AI model training. The Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit, sec... |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Wikipedia's New Era: Monetizing AI's Foundation | Wikipedia embarks on a new strategy. It monetizes its critical content for AI training. Major tech entities, including Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, now partner with Wikimedia. This shift addresses soaring infrastructure costs from AI data s... |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Wikipedia moves to monetise AI giants’ reliance on its content | Wikipedia on Thursday unveiled partnerships with several big tech companies including Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, marking a major step up in the non-profit’s ability to monetise tech firms’ reliance on its content.
Wikimedia Foundation, the... |
| Dec 15, 2025 | От Адама и Евы к «Моим документам»: история хранения и передачи личной информации | История способов хранения данных — это история человечества. От первых рисунков на стенах древних пещер до современных облачных хранилищ, мы постоянно совершенствовали способы сохранить важную информацию, чтобы передать её потомкам или испо... |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Не вставая с кресла — эволюция удаленного управления серверами от телетайпов до IPMI | История удаленного управления серверами — это история борьбы с расстоянием. С момента появления первых дорогостоящих мейнфреймов, работавших, дай бог, на перфокартах, инженеров стал волновать вопрос — как контролировать критически важное об... |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Presos reclamam de cadeia nos EUA que libera disquete, mas não pendrive | Disquetes de 3,5 polegadas (imagem: Emerson Alecrim/Tecnoblog)
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| Jul 14, 2025 | Tackling The AI Bots That Threaten To Overwhelm The Open Web | It is a measure of how fast the field of AI has developed in the three years since Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was published that the issue of using copyright material for training AI systems, briefly mentioned... |
| May 8, 2025 | Wikipedia Launches Legal Challenge on Online Safety Act | Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has launched a legal challenge against the Online Safety Act as it says its users and contributors could be unfairly targeted in the new regulations.
Wikipedia has long shown concerns on how the Online Sa... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Ethically trained AI startup Pleias releases new small reasoning models optimized for RAG with built-in citations | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
French AI startup Pleias made waves late last year with the launch of its ethically trained Pleias 1.0 family of ... |
| Apr 10, 2025 | AI Crawlers Are Harming Wikimedia, Bringing Open Source Sites To Their Knees, And Putting The Open Web At Risk | The current rapid advances in generative AI are built on three things. Computing power, some clever coding, and vast amounts of training data. Lots of money can buy you more of the first two, but finding the necessary training material is i... |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Wikimedia Complains About AI Bots Scraping as It Strains Servers, Causing Bandwidth to Surge by 50% | By Isaiah Richard
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| Jan 8, 2025 | What is Community Notes? How does it work? With Meta removing fact-check — all you need to know explained | Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms on January 7, announced the company's pivot from professional fact-checking of content to reliance on “Community Notes” type crowdsourced features for posts. And with that came a variety o... |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Чем принципиально отличаются правила социальных сетей от правил игры «Жизнь» | Почему не взлетели тематические гипертекстовые ссылки (тэги, Semantic web), а платформы загаживаются спамом и как это исправить.
Казалось бы, нужно только придумать универсальную разметку для [тематических гипертекстовых] ссылок. Попыток бы... |
| Oct 17, 2024 | ANI Vs Wikipedia: Delhi HC Asks Platform To Take Down Page On Lawsuit | SUMMARY
The court recorded that the page terms the direction of a single judge to identity of editors who made the edits amounted to “censorship and a threat to the flow of information”.
The division bench further outlined that they would h... |
| Oct 2, 2024 | С начала года «Википедия» проигнорировала более 200 требований Роскомнадзора | По требованию Роскомнадзора «Википедия» (принадлежит Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.) удалила только один материал с запрещённым контентом с начала 2024 года. Всего же служба требовала удалить 201 материал на «Википедии», рассказал представитель... |
| Sep 20, 2024 | The Battle Against SLAPP Suits: A Call for Global Protection | The digital age has brought unprecedented access to information. Wikipedia stands as a beacon of knowledge, a vast ocean of facts and figures. Yet, beneath its surface lies a turbulent undercurrent: SLAPP suits. These Strategic Lawsuits Aga... |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Flink raises $150M, Headline has €776.5M for growth-stage startups, and Ukraine's resilience in adversity | This week we tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most imp... |
| Sep 18, 2024 | The Wikimedia Foundation Successfully Sees Off Another SLAPP Suit, But More Protection Is Needed Globally | Wikipedia seems such an essential and benign aspect of the online world that it is hard to understand why people would want to attack it in the courts. But it is nonetheless subject to lawsuits that try to force it to censor its articles be... |
| Aug 20, 2024 | Как математик-пивовар t-распределение изобретал | Распределение Гаусса на графике — это колоколообразная кривая. Она достигает своего пика в среднем значении и убывает по обе стороны от него. Социологи его применяют, когда изучают мнение, а статистики — средние доходы, рост людей и то, кто... |
| May 20, 2024 | От виноградных прессов к цифре. Технологии, которые изменили печать | Печать традиционно была сложным техническим процессом. Еще до изобретения Гутенберга изготовление бумаги, чернил и оттисков требовали незаурядных знаний. После появления подвижных литер печать стала одной из важнейших сфер бизнеса, где в пе... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Оптимизация запросов в ClickHouse с помощью создания цепочки материализованных представлений | Оптимизация запросов в ClickHouse с помощью создания цепочки материализованных представлений
В ClickHouse материализованные представления (materialized views) являются механизмом, автоматически выполняющим запросы к исходным таблицам при по... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | UK returns looted African artefacts, but only ‘on loan’ | The loan will last for three years with the option of an extension. Image: Wikimedia Commons
These artefacts, consisting of 32 gold and silver pieces, were stolen during conflicts between the British and the revered Asante people in the 19t... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Как лава-лампы помогают шифровать данные | Хостинговая компания Cloudflare отвечает примерно за 20% основного интернет-трафика. Это означает, что она несет ответственность за миллиарды обращений к трафику, многие из которых могут оказаться вредоносными. Чтобы защититься хакеров, ком... |
| Feb 17, 2024 | Как мы пытались разместить статью о новом виде спорта на Википедии, а ее украли роботы… | Трудно отыскать черную кошку в черной комнате, особенно, если ее там нет…
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Сегодня я хотел бы рассказать вам историю, которая не совсем укладывается в мое понимание окружающ... |
| Dec 28, 2023 | FAQ из жизни Википедии: кто закрылся, зачем закрылся, как всё это устроено | После недавней статьи про некоммерческое партнёрство «Викимедиа РУ» у читателей возникают вопросы. Назову, в чём неточности этой статьи, и сообщу некоторые факты. В основе моей статьи — комментарии к той статье.Кто и кого закрывает?
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| Dec 2, 2021 | A Compilation of Command Prompt Tips, Tricks & Cool Things You Can Do | Although Windows settings provide easy access for configuring most things, the Command Prompt -- elevated or otherwise -- can be indispensable in a number of scenarios, especially when you know how to take advantage of it.
Sometimes setting... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | Подшивка газеты «Комсомольская правда» за 1941—1945 годы опубликована на Викискладе по свободной лицензии | 21 ноября военная подшивка газеты «Комсомольская правда» появилась в интернете на сайте Викисклад — в фотобанке, который обслуживает Википедию и другие проекты фонда «Викимедиа». Выпуски с 22 июня 1941 года по 9 мая 1945 года переданы в сво... |
| Sep 24, 2021 | Вики-конференция в Москве 25 и 26 сентября 2021 года | В субботу и воскресенье 25—26 сентября 2021 года в Москве, в библиотеке имени Некрасова (метро Бауманская) проходит XV Вики-конференция. Она посвящена развитию Википедии и аналогичных сайтов на языках народов России, а также вопросам свобод... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Wikipedia: We Are Not Creating an Enhanced Service for Those Who Pay, but Tailoring Existing Services to Customer Needs | Wikimedia, the company behind popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, caused a stir in the online community when it announced it was planning to launch a commercial product – Wikimedia Enterprise – aimed at IT giants querying the encyclopedi... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | A Compilation of Command Prompt Tips, Tricks & Cool Things You Can Do | Although Windows settings provide easy access for configuring most things, the Command Prompt -- elevated or otherwise -- can be indispensable in a number of scenarios, especially when you know how to take advantage of it.
Sometimes setting... |
| Feb 1, 2020 | ‘The US Shouldn’t Sanction South Africa for Copying US-Style Fair Use’ | A few months ago, the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) started an in-depth inquiry into South Africa’s copyright policies and plans.
The US Government launched this official review following complaints from the International Int... |
| Sep 24, 2019 | Google wins fight to restrict right-to-be-forgotten ruling to EU search engines | Google has won a long-standing battle with the European Union (EU), after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled the company can limit the scope of the “right-to-be-forgotten” (RTBF) regulation to searches made within the EU.
Today’s ann... |
| Sep 24, 2019 | Google wins fight to restrict right-to-be-forgotten ruling to EU search engines | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google has won a long-standing battle with the European Union (EU), after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled the company can lim... |
| Jan 9, 2019 | Wikipedia taps Google to help editors translate articles | For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages. But the nonprofit’s effort has been slow, in part because of the translation tool it uses. Editors on the website have long expressed a desir... |
| Jan 9, 2019 | Wikipedia taps Google to help editors translate articles | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
For years, Wikipedia has been working on making i... |
| Sep 11, 2018 | Google back in court arguing against a global ‘right to be forgotten’ | Google’s lawyers are in Europe’s top court today arguing against applying the region’s so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling globally domains, rather only geo-limiting delistings to European sub-domains (as it does now).
The original rtb... |
| Sep 5, 2018 | Wikimedia Warns: EU Copyright Directive Could Drastically Change The Internet We Know And Love | We’re getting mighty close to the EU Parliament again voting on the proposed EU Copyright Directive we spent so much time discussing a few months ago. As we’ve discussed there are many, many problems with the proposal, with two of the bigge... |
| Jun 20, 2018 | Europe takes another step towards copyright pre-filters for user generated content | In a key vote this morning the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements of a digital copyright reform package — which critics warn could have a chilling effect on Internet norms like memes... |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Wikimania to make African debut in sub-Saharan Africa | Wikimania
The 14th annual Wikimania conference has been scheduled to hold in Cape Town, South Africa from 18-22 July, under the theme “Bridging knowledge gaps—the ubuntu way forward”
Over 700 volunteers from around the world will come toget... |
| Apr 28, 2018 | Wikipedia now offers link previews -- but you can disable them | When you decide to look up anything on Wikipedia, you run the very serious risk of falling down a rabbit hole that will take you many hours to find your way back out of. To help avoid the problem of going off on too much of a tangent, the s... |
| Apr 23, 2018 | Wikipedia Adds Pop-Up Page Previews So You Can Avoid Plunging Deep Into A Rabbit Hole | Carl Velasco, Tech Times 23 April 2018, 09:04 am
Wikipedia knows full well that it's far too easy to go down internet rabbit holes, especially on its own site. One minute they're reading about an episode of The Walking Dead, then several ho... |
| Apr 18, 2018 | Wikipedia now lets you preview pages before you click on any hyperlink | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wikipedia today introduced a useful new feature designed to help save you from disappearing too far down internet rabbit holes.
Wheneve... |
| Mar 28, 2018 | Italian Court Rules The Wikimedia Foundation Is Just A Hosting Provider For Wikipedia's Volunteer-Written Articles | Many of us tend to take the amazing resource of Wikipedia for granted: it’s hard to imagine online life without it. But that doesn’t mean its position is assured. As well as continuing funding uncertainty, it is also subject to legal attack... |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Wikimedia's Transparency Report: Guys, We're A Wiki, Don't Demand We Take Stuff Down | Wikimedia, like many other internet platform these days releases a transparency report that discusses various efforts to takedown content or identify users. We’re now all quite used to what such transparency reports look like. However, Wiki... |
| Feb 19, 2018 | Freely accessible Wikipedia Zero is no more | The Wikimedia Foundation is to kill off Wikipedia Zero this year. The zero-rated version of the online encyclopaedia was launched six years ago with the aim of providing free access to mobile users in numerous countries, but there has been ... |
| Nov 24, 2017 | There’s Now a Dark Web Version of Wikipedia | In many parts of the world, like North America, using Wikipedia is taken for granted; hell, there are even Twitter accounts to track government employees editing the internet’s free encyclopedia while on the clock. But in other places, like... |
| Jul 6, 2017 | No, The Canadian Supreme Court Did Not Ruin the Internet | Last week, the Canadian Supreme Court upheld a ruling by the Court of Appeal for British Columbia that required Google to delist—remove from its search results—links to a website that appears to violate Canadian law (the result of an intell... |
| May 26, 2017 | Wikipedians Join Push For Fair Use In Australia After Six Government Reports Recommend It | People in Australia have been asking for the introduction of fair use as part of a broader copyright reform for a long time. Techdirt first wrote about it four years ago, then again last year, when the Australian Law Reform Productivity Com... |
| Feb 22, 2017 | EFF: Half of web traffic is now encrypted | Half of the web’s traffic is now encrypted, according to a new report from the EFF released this week. The rights organization noted the milestone was attributable to a number of efforts, including recent moves from major tech companies to ... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | Accessing the Metropolitan Museum’s New Stockpile of Over 375,000 Open License Artworks | Ever feel the need to visually jazz up your lessons with The Night Watch? Now you can use Rembrandt’s paintings—and many others—for free.
Last week New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) announced a new policy allowing over 375,00... |
| Jan 26, 2017 | Craig Newmark puts $500K towards reducing harassment on Wikipedia | Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has donated half a million dollars towards Wikipedia’s “Community health initiative,” aimed at reducing harassment and vandalism on the site and improve the tools moderators use every day to keep the peace.
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| Jan 10, 2017 | Wikimedia Foundation nabs $3 million grant to improve accessibility of free Commons content | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Wikimedia Foundation may be better known for a vast crowdsourced online encyclopedia called Wikipedia, but the not-for-profit also ... |
| Jan 10, 2017 | Wikimedia Foundation nabs $3 million grant to improve accessibility of free Commons content | The Wikimedia Foundation may be better known for a vast crowdsourced online encyclopedia called Wikipedia, but the not-for-profit also operates a repository of free-to-use media assets — including photos, audio clips, and videos — called Wi... |
| Oct 27, 2016 | Why Wikipedia Is Worried About Global 'Right To Be Forgotten' Delistings | As Techdirt reported last year, the problematic “right to be forgotten” — strictly speaking, a right to be delisted from search results — took a really dangerous turn when the French data protection regulator told Google that its orders to ... |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Wikimedia Foundation files petition in support of Google’s ‘right-to-be-forgotten’ battle in France | The Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization behind Wikipedia, has filed a petition in support of Google in France regarding an ongoing dispute between French authorities and Google over its implementation of the so-called “right-to-be... |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Wikimedia Foundation files petition in support of Google’s ‘right-to-be-forgotten’ battle in France | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization behind Wikipedia, has filed a petition in support of Google in France regarding an on... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | Brazilian Court Agrees Wikipedia Can Use Publicly-Available Personal Information For An Article | A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about a victory in the courts for Creative Commons licenses, noting that such judgments were still rather few and far between. That’s unfortunate, in the sense that some people still think CC licensing is wei... |
| Jul 28, 2016 | Wikipedia for Android redesigned with Explore feed and voice search | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wikipedia today announced a redesigned version of its Android app that not only lets you quickly check facts and verify details, but al... |
| Jul 28, 2016 | Wikipedia for Android redesigned with Explore feed and voice search | Wikipedia today announced a redesigned version of its Android app that not only lets you quickly check facts and verify details, but also recommends you content to read on the go. You can download the new version now from Google Play.
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| Jul 12, 2016 | As Google faces landmark legal fight in Canada, tech firms and advocacy groups rally in support | Google is no stranger to litigation, but for the past couple of years, the company has been fighting a case in Canada that could have far-reaching implications — not only for Google, but for the global internet-using population.
In light of... |
| Jul 12, 2016 | As Google faces landmark legal fight in Canada, tech firms and advocacy groups rally in support | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google is no stranger to litigation, but for the past couple of years, the company has been fighting a case in Canada that could have f... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Wikimedia: If Copyright Law Ain’t Broken, Don’t Fix It | Copyright holders have a problem with their content appearing on the Internet without permission. They argue that if they do not remove that content and the links that connect to it, anyone is able to access it for free, thus undermining th... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $1 million to support Wikipedia | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Omnipresent online encyclopedia Wikipedia has rec... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $1 million to support Wikipedia | Omnipresent online encyclopedia Wikipedia has received a large gift from the founder of another famous internet institution.
Craig Newmark, the main man behind classifieds portal Craigslist, has donated $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment... |
| Apr 28, 2016 | Wikimedia Research has Created a Tool to Eliminate Language Gaps on Wikipedia | Krystle Vermes, Tech Times 28 April 2016, 10:04 am
The research group behind Wikipedia, Wikimedia Research, recently teamed up with computer scientists from Stanford University to hone in on the language gaps of the website. Wikipedia noted... |
| Apr 28, 2016 | On Wikipedia, all languages are not created equal; but that could be changing | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
On Wikipedia, not all languages are created equal.
Tallying around 40 million entries in total and consuming around 30 terabytes of dat... |
| Apr 23, 2016 | RuTracker and Sci-Hub Nominated for Free Knowledge Award | For the third year in a row the official Russian Wikimedia chapter is awarding a prize to a person or organization that made a notable contribution in line with the goals of the Wikimedia movement.
Earlier this month Wikimedia announced t... |
| Feb 15, 2016 | Wikimedia Works On Search Improvements, Says It’s Not Competing with Google [Updated] | Note: This article has been updated with clarification directly from The Wikimedia Foundation.
It would appear that there is a new search engine from Wikipedia in the works – one that would surface public information from Wikipedia and its ... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | Wikimedia Takes Down Diary Of Anne Frank, Uses It To Highlight Idiocy Of DMCA Rules, Copyright Terms | We’ve written a few times about the copyright status of the Diary of Anne Frank lately, mainly because it’s pretty clear that the original work was supposed to enter the public domain in Europe on January 1st of this year, as it was 70 year... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | As Wikipedia turns 15 years old, we take a look at its 15 most-edited articles of all time | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, which... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | As Wikipedia turns 15 years old, we take a look at its 15 most-edited articles of all time | Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, which makes the crowd-sourced encyclopedia 15 years old this week. To mark the milestone, the Wikimedia Foundation has revealed the most-edited articles since Wikipedia’s inception.
Much has chang... |
| Jan 9, 2016 | The top 25 most popular Wikipedia articles of 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wikipedia passed a notable milestone in 2015, notching up five million English-language articles. Looking back at the page view data ac... |
| Jan 8, 2016 | Wikipedia, vandalism, and why the media should ignore pranksters | Wikipedia has brought a wealth of knowledge to the online world, enabled by its crowdsourcing approach that permits anyone to add and edit articles on any subject. But a by-product of opening such a system to the public is that Wikipedia ha... |
| Jan 8, 2016 | Wikipedia, vandalism, and why the media should ignore pranksters | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wikipedia has brought a wealth of knowledge to th... |
| Dec 22, 2015 | Europe vs. the U.S. in 2015: A year of transatlantic tussles | Beyond the countless data breaches that companies and consumers endured in 2015, perhaps the most obvious tension in the online privacy realm could be felt in the many altercations between the U.S. and Europe.
The seed of this combative sur... |
| Dec 22, 2015 | Europe vs. the U.S. in 2015: A year of transatlantic tussles | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Beyond the countless data breaches that companies and consumers endured in 2015, perhaps the most obvious tension in the online privacy... |
| Nov 30, 2015 | German Museum Sues Wikimedia Foundation Over Photos Of Public Domain Works Of Art | The mission of museums and art galleries is generally to spread knowledge and appreciation of beautiful and interesting objects. So it’s rather sad when they start taking legal action against others that want to help them by disseminating i... |
| Nov 24, 2015 | Wikimedia Foundation wins lawsuit brought by director who sought to hide her age on Wikipedia | The Wikimedia Foundation has emerged victorious in a lawsuit brought by a Germany-based screenwriter and movie director, who requested that her date of birth be removed from her German-language Wikipedia page.
Dr. Evelyn Schels filed a laws... |
| Nov 24, 2015 | Wikimedia Foundation wins lawsuit brought by director who sought to hide her age on Wikipedia | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Wikimedia Foundation has emerged victorious i... |
| Nov 13, 2015 | How does Wikipedia make money? | Wikipedia gets most of its money through donations, but also sells goods on the Wikipedia store
Of all the tools that the Internet has given us, perhaps the most useful is free-content Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. It's such a great sour... |
| Nov 2, 2015 | Wikipedia now has more than 5 million articles in English | Wikipedia has passed a notable milestone in its quest to give the world “collaborative free knowledge,” with the revelation by The Wikimedia Foundation that it now provides more than five million English-language articles.
Founded in 2001, ... |
| Nov 2, 2015 | Wikipedia now has more than 5 million articles in English | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wikipedia has passed a notable milestone in its q... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Wikipedia Is Bitching About Media Coverage | English Wikipedia administrator Robert Fernandez just published a blog post on the official Wikimedia blog complaining about Wikipedia / Wikimedia’s media coverage – both quantity and quality.
On which we are now reporting.
According to Fer... |
| Oct 26, 2015 | Wikimedia case against NSA spying thrown out of court | A lawsuit brought against the NSA by Wikimedia and eight other plaintiffs has been dismissed by a federal judge. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the case on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation alleging that the NSA had engaged in... |
| Oct 26, 2015 | Wikipedia editor says site receives so little media coverage it may as well be ‘a foreign country’ | To the English-language news media, Wikipedia is a foreign country. They don’t speak the language, they don’t know how anything works, and they can’t even ask ¿Dónde está la biblioteca?
That sums up how one Wikipedia editor feels about the ... |
