Collaborate Disseminate
Slashdot reader westand writes, “Wikipedia’s 5000 most-visited articles of 2016 have been released, and Donald Trump leads the pack.” (Though the site’s second-most popular article was about a porn site.)
The top 5000 pages account for 21.6 billion vi… Continue reading Wikipedia Announces Their Most Viewed Articles Of 2016
For years, an “entrepreneurial spirit” kept several of abandoned articles on Wikipedia afloat. The WikiProject called Abandoned Articles, which sought to bring abandoned articles back to life, or “if appropriate, merging information or recommending del… Continue reading The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned
Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: Snowden denies allegations; Uber moves to Arizona; Wikipedia reveals most edited page
Wikipedia has revealed its most edited articles of 2016. Believe it or not, the two most edited articles of the year were for Deaths in 2016, which was edited 18,230 times, and Donald Trump, with 8,933 edits as of December 21. NPR reports: Some are com… Continue reading Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016
Reader Andreas Kolbe writes: The fundraising banners on Wikipedia this year are so effective that halfway through its December fundraising campaign, the Wikimedia Foundation has already exceeded its $25 million donations target for the entire month, re… Continue reading Wikipedia Exceeds Fundraising Target, But Continues Asking For More Money
An anonymous reader shares a report on Quartz:In a sea of biased content, Wikipedia is one of the few online outlets that strives for neutrality. After 15 years in operation, it’s starting to see results. Researchers at Harvard Business School evaluate… Continue reading Wikipedia’s Not as Biased as You Might Think, Say Harvard Researchers
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, and volunteers from the Wikipedia community, and the Wikimedia F… Continue reading Wikipedia Community and Internet Archive Partner To Fix One Million Broken Links on Wikipedia
First Mark Zuckerberg, and now the hacking outfit, OurMine, have hijacked another high-profile Twitter account. Continue reading Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales’ Twitter account hijacked
No, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, isn’t dead.
But his Twitter *did* get hacked.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales didn’t die this weekend, despite what his hacked Twitter account said
By CarolinaOurMine hackers have found their new target and this timeThis is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Twitter account of WikiPedia Founder Jimmy Wales Hacked by OurMine Continue reading Twitter account of WikiPedia Founder Jimmy Wales Hacked by OurMine