Tag: Wikimedia
Wikimedia condemned by Russia: what does Wikipedia’s parent foundation really risk?
Vincent Mannessier November 02, 2022 at 3:15 p.m. 28 © kremlin.ru In the name of the fight against false information, Russian justice condemned, on 1er November, the parent company of…
China blocks seven representatives of Wikimedia movement from coming to PMOI
WIPO headquarters in Geneva. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod/Wikimedia Commons/CC by-sa Yesterday, Friday July 15, China blocked the accreditation to the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of seven…
Wikimedia Enterprise announces its first customer: Google
Google and Internet Archive will be the first two entities to subscribe to Wikimedia Enterprise services. This subsidiary of the Wikimedia Foundation, the NGO that hosts and organizes the development…
The Wikimedia Foundation abandons cryptocurrency donations
Earlier this year, a demand was made for Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia, to stop accepting cryptocurrencies. A number of familiar arguments resurfaced during this vote, including that cryptocurrencies are…
Bitcoin refused? Wikimedia turns its back on cryptos
The contributors have voted, and their sentence is irrevocable… – We said it in January 2022, a part of the Wikimedia community was against accepting the Bitcoin (BTC) and other…
Wikipedia threatened by Russia: Wikimedia will not back down
Thibaut Keutchayan March 04, 2022 at 11:40 a.m. 3 © Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock.com In the hybrid conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the information war is raging, and Wikipedia is…