When an unregistered user edits an article in Wikipedia, since the IP address of the personal computer is confirmed and recorded, the geographical position of the unregistered user is displayed on the ...

Who are these people who edit Wikipedia, and where do they come from? The answer to this question matters: It was these editors who decided, for instance, to remove women from the “American novelists” ...

Last month, I wrote about the fun and the pitfalls of viral maps, a feature that included 88 super-simple maps of my own creation. As a follow-up, I’m writing up short items on some of those maps, ...

This interactive world map visualizes “a cross-verified database of notable people” to show you the most notable person in your hometown — or anywhere else you might want to look. Topi Tjukanov, a ...

THE most searched for celebrities from Essex has been revealed in an interactive map. The map links place names with their most searched for public figure on Wikipedia. It includes a wide-reaching ...

The month of October has me thinking about monsters—and, specifically, mutants. That’s a strange way to start a conversation about tech topics, I realize. But stay with me: I promise this is going ...

At one point in time, almost all the over 30,000 Wikipedia articles related to India were using maps made by Arun Ganesh, a third-year student at SVCE, Chennai. From creating India’s first public ...

The government has asked Wikipedia to remove a link from its platform that has shown an incorrect map of Jammu and Kashmir, according to sources. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has issued an order ...

Wikipedia does not take a stand on controversial issues, but presents both sides to educate people. “We must study what the opponents believe too,” Jimmy Wales, founder of the free online ...

Google has shut down Google Map Maker. A support page went up over the weekend declaring that Map Maker is closed but that "many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps." Map Maker was a ...