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 ...

Today the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects, is filing suit against the National Security Agency and the Department of Justice of the ...

The recent rise of generative AI has led to a surge in demand for content used to train and infer models, with some AI companies using web-scraping bots called 'crawlers' to collect data. The ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Wikimedia Foundation may be better known for a vast crowdsourced ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based projects, announced this morning that it’s now implementing HTTPS by default across all its sites in order to encrypt ...

The Wikimedia Foundation may not be trying to build another Google, but the goal of the Knowledge Engine could still have an impact on Google, Bing and traditional search engines. It’s no secret that ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit which owns Wikipedia, has apparently terminated an employee who was engaged in editing for pay. The issue of editing for pay has been a hot topic among ...

Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered ...