Tag: Wikipedia
Wikipedia fined in Russia for not removing ‘inaccurate information’
The free and open encyclopedia Wikipedia has been fined for not following Russian demands on content relating to the war in Ukraine. The outcome was predictable. News agencies report on…
Contributors voted to stop Wikipedia accepting crypto donations
Fanny Dufour April 20, 2022 at 4:55 p.m. 1 © Alpha Footage / Shutterstock Following a proposal, more than 200 contributors from Wikipedia voted for the Wikimedia Foundation to stop…
Wolfsburg coach Tommy Stroot: Triple possible, but not even on Wikipedia
Wolfsburg coach Tommy Stroot Triple possible, but not even on Wikipedia April 20, 2022, 7:00 p.m The women of VfL Wolfsburg are on the verge of becoming German champions. In…
Bitcoin donations are no longer welcome on Wikipedia
Wikipedia volunteers no longer wish to allow cryptocurrency donations to support the free and open source encyclopedia. The cryptocurrency page is turning at Wikipedia. In any case, it is the…
The Wikipedia page of Jean-Luc Mélenchon was consulted twice as much as that of Marine Le Pen on the Sunday of the 1st round
The top of the most consulted articles on the Wikipedia encyclopedia on the day of the first round is almost exclusively composed of subjects related to the 2022 presidential election.…
War in Ukraine: Wikipedia resists growing Kremlin threats
Héloïse Goy, with Alexis Patri 10:02 a.m., April 04, 2022 After threats and then bans and blockages against social networks, the Russian dictator is now attacking Wikipedia. The collaborative encyclopedia…
Did you know ? Wikipedia can also be downloaded entirely on PC
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. But you can also make it an offline program. Launched in 2001, the Wikipedia encyclopedia is now one of the most visited websites in the…
Russians are flocking to the offline version of Wikipedia
Downloads of the offline version of Wikipedia increased by 4000% in the first half of March. Blame it on threats to block the site made by the Russian government. On…
Russians start downloading Wikipedia before the service is banned
Benjamin Logerot March 22, 2022 at 10:45 a.m. 5 © Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock.com Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Russian government has blocked access in the…
Wikipedia: a Belarusian editor arrested for “spreading false anti-Russian information”
Benjamin Logerot March 14, 2022 at 11:51 a.m. 10 Mark Bernstein © Sergey Mikhalenko On March 11, Mark Bernstein, one of the most prolific contributors to the Wikipedia Russian, was…
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…
War in Ukraine: Wikipedia supports its contributors after a threat of blocking by Russia
Russia threatens to block Wikipedia in the country, disagreeing with some information on the page documenting the conflict in Ukraine. Roskomnadzor, the Russian media and telecommunications regulator, has threatened to…