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  • Parents of famous hacker force German Wikipedia website offline
    Saturday 21 January 2006 – 01:42
    Wikipedia, the free and openly editable online encyclopedia, had its German website shutdown for three days after parents of a dead hacker named "Tron" objected to an article. After seeing Tron's real name in an entry, the parents filed for a temporary injunction to remove the name or the link to the US Wikipedia website. The American site was not affected and the German site has since come back up.
  • Founder says teachers should let students use Wikipedia for research
    Friday 7 December 2007 – 02:10 in Networking
    Wikipedia boss, Jimmy Wales, has dubbed teachers who don’t allow their students to use Wikipedia for research “bad educators”.
  • Wikipedia backer plans search engine to fight Google
    Tuesday 26 December 2006 – 04:54
    Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!
  • Wikipedia tightens editorial rules after complaint
    Wednesday 7 December 2005 – 05:11
    The popular reference site Wikipedia, which lets anyone create and edit entries, has tightened its editorial rules in an effort to stamp out vandalism and the posting of deliberate misinformation.
  • Whitehouse representative gets creative on Wikipedia
    Wednesday 12 December 2007 – 11:00 in Business
    We all know how tempting it is to jump to the defence of a friend or colleague when keyboard warriors show their faces but probably best not to do it from a work computer.

Articles & reviews

  • Exploring (And Solving) Wikipedia's Problems*
    Tuesday 4 July 2006 – 10:32
    Exploring (And Solving) Wikipedia's Problems Wikipedia has come in for a lot of flak lately. Like the biased editors in "reversion wars" on the site itself, most of the media reaction is either pro or anti-Wikipedia. Aaron McKenna takes a more broad approach and looks at the problems facing Wikipedia and some practical solutions.
  • CD version of Wikipedia coming soon*
    Wednesday 25 April 2007 – 11:16
    Wikipedia volunteers are now working on a static version on CD..

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