encyclopaedia
RSS encyclopaedia
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment Launched in 2001, the online encyclopaedia Wales founded now counts some 13 million articles all written and edited collaboratively by volunteers. In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda... [05 Nov 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one whose star is rising. His first online encyclopaedia project Nupedia written not by wiki... [08 Oct 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment Today, the web hosts an ever-increasing range of open informational resources - from the growing body of content licensed under Creative Commons, to the collaboratively produced online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia - the... [03 Sep 2009]
Wikipedia editors to stop vandals messing with articles of the living
News Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit that runs the... [26 Aug 2009]
Wikipedia parent gets $500,000 to improve user friendliness
News A Wikimedia representative said the grant is coming at a "critical time" for the foundation that operates the online encyclopaedia. The not-for-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia has received a $500,000 grant... [21 Aug 2009]
The A to Z of wireless
News So check out our encyclopaedia of wireless for your crash course on all the must-know wireless topics - from wireless' very beginnings to the technologies of the future. From using your mobile phone on a plane to surfing... [11 Aug 2009]
Encarta killed off
News Microsoft has quietly confirmed that it is getting out of the encyclopaedia business, ending its long-standing Encarta product. It will also stop selling Microsoft Student and Encarta Premium, paid software products that... [31 Mar 2009]
Five ways Gen Y will change the way you work
News That is why Facebook beat Match.com, why bloggers are beating CNN.com and why Wikipedia is beating Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation... [26 Mar 2009]
Wikia Search ready for launch
News Wales, who also founded user-generated online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, hopes Wikia Search will eventually rival other search companies, by making the way in which search results are arrived at more "transparent". [03 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…
Comment Google develops 'web 2.0' encyclopaedia Making open-source competitors to proprietary products is one thing, but what is the logic of starting a new encyclopaedia from scratch when the "public" stand to... [20 Dec 2007]
Google develops 'web 2.0' encyclopaedia
News Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopaedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the scheme the "knol project" - a knol being a "unit of knowledge" - according to a... [17 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment I could probably fill an encyclopaedia with the mistakes we've made over the past year," says Beth Comstock, president, Integrated Media, at NBC Universal. Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT... [29 Nov 2007]
Broadband boon comes to the borders
News Fill in your tech knowledge with silicon.com's broadband encyclopaedia. A deal has been struck between the South of Scotland Broadband Pathfinder Project and ISP Thus to install high-speed broadband in the region. [03 Nov 2006]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Active in the dot-com world since the mid-1990's, Wales splashes into the top 10 for his role in creating the group-edited encyclopaedia and popularising this 'open source' approach to information management known as... [25 Sep 2006]
Wikipedia - oh wherefore art thou?
News Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia was unavailable for some of Wednesday due to technical difficulties with its servers. The free encyclopaedia, which can be edited by anyone and built on Wiki software,... [20 Apr 2006]
