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Wikipedia Gets Published - Should Writers Get Paid?

By Sarah Perez / May 6, 2008 8:03 AM

It seems a debate is brewing in the "Wikipedia-sphere" surrounding the commercialization and the soon-to-be-made profit from the voluntarily written and edited online encyclopedia web site. For the first time,

Wikipedians to Throw 300 Parties to Celebrate 10 Years of World-Shaking Knowledge Sharing

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 11, 2011 11:09 AM / View Comments

Wikipedia will turn 10 years old this weekend and its extended family is throwing it a birthday party in more than 300 different cities around the world. The full list

How To: Annotate Images from Wikipedia

By Steven Walling / August 29, 2009 1:00 PM / View Comments

You may not know it, but most of the images in Wikipedia are actually hosted on its sister project, Wikimedia Commons. If you find a favorite image on the encyclopedia

Wikipedia's Parent Org Gets $2 Million Grant From eBay Founder

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 25, 2009 12:56 PM / View Comments

The Omidyar Network, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's philanthropic and investment organization, announced today that it will give the Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia, a $2 million grant over the

Wikipedia: We Need $16 Million To Stay Free

By Mike Melanson / November 15, 2010 6:38 AM / View Comments

Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation managed to raise more than $8 million in its yearly fundraiser. On Monday morning, the non-profit behind Wikipedia is announcing that it aims to raise

Wikipedians to Vote on Site-Wide Creative Commons

By Phil Glockner / April 13, 2009 3:38 PM / View Comments

The Creative Commons Blog today announced that the Wikipedia community is holding a vote to move to using Creative Commons for its primary content license. The license being discussed is

Wikipedia to Loosen Controls Tonight

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 14, 2010 2:38 PM / View Comments

Wikipedia will roll out the latest changes to its editing policy later tonight, called Pending Changes. The constant struggle to find a way to limit vandalism without a chilling effect

Is Wikipedia Losing Editors?

By Jon Mitchell / August 4, 2011 11:01 AM / View Comments

Has the cognitive surplus begun to dry up? During the annual Wikimania conference in Haifa, Israel, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told the Associated Press that the organization is "scrambling to

Wikipedia Comes to the iPhone with Wikipanion

By Corvida / August 25, 2008 7:39 PM

A new school year is about to start and students nationwide will be clamoring for ways to keep up with their school work. With many schools starting to offer free

Confused About Wikipedia's Flagged Revisions? What's Really Happening

By Frederic Lardinois / August 26, 2009 11:13 AM / View Comments

Over the last few days, we have read a lot about how Wikipedia's new 'flagged revision' policy will radically change how entries about living persons will be maintained. Even mainstream

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