Wikipedia

Buzzword Bingo: How Binded (Blockai) Says the Blockchain Will Protect Your Copyright, and Other Nonsense

23 July, 2016 // 18 Comments

Bitcoin and other pseudo-currencies are a hot topic right now, and startups are coming up with all sorts of ways to take advantage of the buzz by launching services which use buzzwords to hide the [Read More ...]

Wikipedia, TurnItIn Team Up on Copyright

3 November, 2015 // 0 Comments

Turnitin has long used Wikipedia as a data source when scouring students' papers for plagiarism, and now it is returning the favor. eSchoolNews reports that TurnItIn and Wikipedia have [Read More ...]

Wikipedia Suspends 381 User Accounts for Suspected Fraud, Extortion

1 September, 2015 // 0 Comments

Wikipedia's greatest strengths is that anyone can edit it. Conversely, the online encyclopedia's greatest weakness is that anyone can edit it. The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of [Read More ...]

Wikipedia for iOS v4.1.0 Brings New Sharing Option, Improved Search

15 April, 2015 // 0 Comments

Wikipedia announced a major update for its iPad and iPhone app today which adds a number of features and tweaks to the layout of the articles (including a couple changes which the Wikipedia [Read More ...]

Wikipedia Expands Auto-Translate Feature

12 January, 2015 // 2 Comments

The foreign language editions of Wikipedia have long proven to be a useful way for me to research background details for posts on this blog, and now more Wikipedia users are going to enjoy similar [Read More ...]

Wikipedia Adds Epub to its eBook Download Options – No More PDF, Yay!

18 September, 2012 // 5 Comments

As much as I am online everyday I am still reminded that offline still rules the roost. Wikipedia is accessible from any web browser, but even this knowledge aggregator still has to offer a download [Read More ...]