The parent organization of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has proposed closing down a sister project called Wikinews, according to a proposal reviewed by The Desk. Low readership and even lower ...

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The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the first Universal Code of Conduct to tackle misinformation and harassment on Wikipedia. The foundation says that the rules clearly spell out what behavior is ...

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 ...

It worked. From 2011 to 2012, Wikipedia’s fundraising arm, the Wikimedia Foundation, pulled in $38.4 million. It was a major increase from the $5 million raised from 2007 to 2008, one that occurred ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, has reported a dramatic 50% increase in bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads since January 2024.

A data scientist, Albon has worked for technology companies and nonprofits for over 10 years. He has served as Head of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation since January 2020 and as Head of ...

The election of Bobby Shabangu to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is a historic milestone for the Wikimedia movement, as it marks the first time an African serves in this senior governance ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today denied the Wikimedia Foundation’s petition for review of its legal challenge to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) “Upstream” surveillance program. Under ...