At the start of the year, a request was made for Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia, to stop accepting cryptocurrency. The debate saw familiar arguments used for and against the proposal: ...

Since its founding more than a decade ago, Wikipedia has always prided itself on openness. Anyone who wants to edit the world's largest encyclopedia can do so, despite occasionally embarrassing ...

WASHINGTON — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court today to review a challenge to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance of ...

The arguments in favor included environmental concerns surrounding Bitcoin transactions and “the risk to the movement’s reputation for accepting cryptocurrencies.” Requests for comments on a proposal ...

The WMF received around $130,000 (0.08 percent) in crypto donations last year The WMF received around $130,000 (0.08 percent) in crypto donations last year is a news writer who covers the streaming ...

Foundation reaches goal of raising more than $6 million to sustain Wikipedia. The money will be used to maintain and grow the foundation's technical infrastructure. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

Earlier today, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees has appointed Katherine Maher as its new executive director. “Our mission is vast, diverse, and ...

Wikimedia, which owns a dozen other open-source databases like Wikipedia, issued a statement last week against the new set of copyright laws called the Copyright ...