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Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News Twitter CEO and co-founder, Evan Williams and Wikimedia founder and co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, took second and third places respectively. October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from... [09 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment With my tweet I'd been hoping to get a feel for opinion on the Wikipedia, Wikimedia and Wikia founder. In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Photo credit: StephenEdmonds via Wikimedia under the following Creative Commons Licence Photo credit: Marco Mioli via Wikimedia under the following Creative Commons Licence Photo credit: Marco Mioli Via... [03 Nov 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... [26 Aug 2009]
Wikipedia parent gets $500,000 to improve user friendliness
News The enormous popularity of Wikipedia and its collaborative premise make the Wikimedia Foundation an ideal vehicle for spreading the open educational resources movement," Barbara Chow, director of the education program at... [21 Aug 2009]
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 5: Content Delivery and Distribution Network Design
White Paper As multimedia has become more prevalent on the Web, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have become a critical component of the Internet and an enabler of Web 2.0 applications like IPTV, mobile Web and TV devices, and content-rich Web... [12 Feb 2009]
Wikipedia's Wales "absolutely" still on the payroll
News Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is "absolutely" not out of a job at the Wikimedia Foundation, according to the foundation's director of communications. Jimmy is a much-valued board member of the Wikimedia... [05 Jan 2009]
Wikipedia woos the old world
News The Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced it intends to produce a CD of around 2,000 of its articles. The Wikimedia Foundation said the articles were... [25 Apr 2007]
Microsoft to pay blogger for Wikipedia 'corrections'?
News According to the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, the only contact from Microsoft on the matter before Jelliffe was approached was one message by Redmond's Open XML technical evangelist Doug Mahugh, on... [25 Jan 2007]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile The Wikipedia - the flagship of the Wikimedia projects which also include the Wiktionary and WikiNews - has grown at a phenomenal rate and proved that the wiki paradigm can produce a reliable (if not flawless) source of... [25 Sep 2006]
Wikipedia - oh wherefore art thou?
News The error message said: "Wikipedia is now one of the most visited sites on the internet by traffic and continues to grow, and as a result the Wikimedia Foundation has a constant need to purchase new hardware. [20 Apr 2006]
Britannica bites back in Wikipedia row
News Earlier this month, its publisher, the Wikimedia Foundation, reported the addition of the one millionth article to the English-language version of Wikipedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica has reopened the debate over how its... [27 Mar 2006]
Yahoo! gives "charitable" help to Wikipedia
News and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that is parent to Wikipedia. Yahoo! plans to add functionality to Yahoo! Search that will give people shortcuts to content from Wikipedia, the community-based encyclopaedia. [08 Apr 2005]
