Anti-piracy bills shelved by US Congress
January 21st, 2012 - 1:46 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The US Congress has indefinitely postponed debate on two disputed anti-piracy bills, two days after protest blackouts by hundreds of websites including online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.Senate ... Read more...
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UK academics want to turn Wikipedia into official research tool
March 23rd, 2011 - 6:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 23 (ANI): Students and academics at a world-leading London university have expressed their desire to turn Wikipedia into an official research tool.The newly formed Wikipedians at Imperial College said the ... Read more...
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Wikipedia to recruit more women writers
February 2nd, 2011 - 5:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 2 (ANI): Wikipedia is set to recruit more women contributors, after it was revealed that more that 85 percent of the articles are written by men.The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit ... Read more...
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Wikipedia too complicated to edit, says founder Jimmy Wales
January 14th, 2011 - 4:29 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 14 (ANI): Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia has said that the site is too complicated for many people to modify.Wales, 44, said the site, which bills itself as "the ... Read more...
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Secret of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ revealed by Wikipedia
August 30th, 2010 - 12:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 30 (ANI): Wikipedia has put an end to the long-standing mystery of whodunit in one of the most famous Agatha Christie novels 'The Mousetrap'.For 58 years, the identity of the ... Read more...
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Wikipedia becomes home base for paedophiles
June 27th, 2010 - 4:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 27 (ANI): An investigation has revealed that Wikipedia has become a home base for a worldwide network of paedophiles.According to the investigation, paedophiles are campaigning on the famous online encyclopaedia ... Read more...
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Wikipedia eases editing restrictions on controversial pages
June 16th, 2010 - 6:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 16 (ANI): Wikipedia says it has taken an "important step" towards making easier the editing of some its most controversial articles - the online encyclopaedia is now relaxing editing restrictions ... Read more...
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Chaos at Wikipedia in wake of porn purging activity
May 15th, 2010 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 15 (ANI): A massive re-organization appears to be taking place at Wikipedia, as co-founder Jimmy Wales has relinquished his top-level control over the encyclopaedia's content, as well as all of ... Read more...
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Wikimedia slammed for pornographic content on website
May 8th, 2010 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 8 (ANI): Wikimedia, Wikipedia's parent company, has started an online purging activity to get rid of sexually explicit content on the website following a report by an American TV news ... Read more...
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Sea secrets - over 5,000 new marine species found
February 19th, 2010 - 10:32 am ICT by IANS
By Richa Sharma
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) They were the sea's best kept secrets - until now. As work on the world's first ocean census inches closer to completion, scientists working on ... Read more...
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Polanski’s Wikipedia page locked after “edit war” over child sex controversy
September 29th, 2009 - 6:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, September 29 (ANI): Wikipedia has locked the page on director Roman Polanski who has been detained for an unlawful sex case.Editors of the online encyclopaedia are divided on whether his success ... Read more...
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Wikipedia turned into a 5000-page, 1ft 7ins thick book
June 17th, 2009 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jun 17 (ANI): Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, has been turned into a book 5000 pages long and 1ft 7ins thick.Rob Matthews turned the encyclopaedia, written by ... Read more...
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‘Stupedia’ highlights pointless facts stuffed in Wikipedia
April 30th, 2009 - 3:46 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 30 (ANI): Touted as information treasury, Wikipedia is not just pure general knowledge, but it is also home to a big chunk of pointless facts.Some of such useless extracts ... Read more...
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Censoring of Wikipedias naked girl page leaves users fuming
December 8th, 2008 - 2:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 8 (ANI): Wikipedia users are enraged after many UK Internet providers decided to block a page on the online encyclopaedia showing an image of a naked girl.The blocked page ... Read more...
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Wikipedia under fire for showing dressed-up porn
September 9th, 2008 - 2:41 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Sept 9 (ANI): The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopaedia on the Internet, Wikipedia has come under fire for allowing pornographic images and videos in its articles.In fact, some of the site''s ... Read more...
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12pc centenarians use Internet
July 31st, 2008 - 5:51 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 31 (ANI): New research has shown that three per cent of 100-year olds have referred to an online encyclopaedia, and that four times that number use the Internet.During ... Read more...
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Google launches online encyclopaedia to counter Wikipedia
July 24th, 2008 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 24 (ANI): Internet giant Google has come up with a new online encyclopaedia to counter Wikipedia.Users will be allowed to write articles on their own areas of expertise on ... Read more...
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Scientology twist behind psychiatrist Persaud’s suspension
June 21st, 2008 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, June 21 (IANS) The manner in which Indian-origin psychiatrist Raj Persaud was suspended for misconduct has become controversial after it emerged that the complaints of plagiarism against him ... Read more...
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NRI Vinod Khosla, wife give Wikimedia big boost
April 8th, 2008 - 11:34 am ICT by admin
Bangalore, April 8 (IANS) Indian expatriate philanthropists Vinod Khosla and his wife Neeru Khosla have made a $500,000 donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit charitable organisation promoting the sharing of free ... Read more...
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Hoax, Wiki-style: Internet encyclopaedia spoofs mock reality
March 18th, 2008 - 9:54 am ICT by admin
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Bad Salzuflen (Germany), March 18 (DPA) Most surfers get annoyed when they fall for fake or fictional news on the web. Some web users thrive on that kind of hoax, though: spoof ... Read more...
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