Tag: Wikipedia
A Chinese woman vandalized Wikipedia for 10 years because she was bored
A Chinese Wikipedia user has created or edited nearly 300 articles on Russian history. All these entries on the online encyclopedia were false. On Wikipedia, vandalism is, unfortunately, a fairly…
Wikipedia founder raises funds for his ad-free social network
Louise Jean July 11, 2022 at 11:55 a.m. 2 © WT.Social WikiTribune Social (now WT.Social) is Wikipedia’s social network. Built without ads, it aims to change the way we interact…
Google will pay for better access to Wikipedia
Access to Wikipedia will become chargeable… especially for Google. The search giant and the online encyclopedia have reached an agreement to feed search results more fairly. The Wikimedia Foundation, which…
Wikipedia rejects Russia’s attempt to censor the war in Ukraine
The Wikimedia Foundation retaliates in front of the Russian justice to avoid the censorship of certain articles talking about the war in Ukraine. And suggests that she won’t withdraw anything…
The Wikipedia encyclopedia in full tussle with Russia
Moscow accuses the collaborative site of “disinformation” about the war in Ukraine. Accused of misinforming Russian citizens about the war in Ukraine, the Wikimedia Foundation responds to the courts. The…
At the National Education, the project of a “Wikipedia of educational resources”
P7280348 by remiforall, licensed under CC BY 2.0. It is a particularly ambitious project that Audran Le Baron, director of digital for education at the Ministry of National Education, presented…
Messenger, PayPal, PSN, Wikipedia… Which services prevent you from deleting your account?
Mathieu Grumiaux May 23, 2022 at 4:45 p.m. 4 © hafakot / Shutterstock A website lists all the platforms and classifies them according to how easy it is to delete…
End clap for Bitcoin? Wikipedia no longer wants cryptocurrency donations
Cryptos are over! – Wikipedia and its supporting foundation – Wikimedia – are in constant demand for donations to keep this encyclopedia online. But the majority ideological orientations of his…
Children influencers, Xiaomi, Wikipedia, crypto… La Quotidienne des Nums [03/05/2022]
Join us from 11:30 a.m. to discuss the latest live news! On the program today: child influencers, India taking money from Xiaomi, Wikipedia and cryptocurrency, Apple and its stories, Meta…
Crypto donations on Wikipedia are over for good
The Wikimedia Foundation notes the rejection by its community of cryptocurrency donations to fund Wikipedia. Donations accounted for next to nothing in the online encyclopedia’s annual budget. The Wikimedia Foundation…
Wikipedia stops accepting cryptocurrency donations for environmental reasons
Wikipedia goes against the grain on cryptocurrencies. The NGO that publishes the online encyclopedia has just explained that it will no longer accept donations in cryptocurrencies to avoid legitimizing a…
Wikipedia: Donations in Bitcoin undesirable
Anyone who wanted to support the online encyclopedia Wikipedia could previously do so with Bitcoin and Co. This will no longer be possible in the future. Source: BTC ECHO…