While Wikipedia itself doesn’t publicly publish any data on its most popular pages of the year, a Swedish software engineer has analyzed the site’s public logs to show what pages most visitors were ...

Might want to get your Encyclopedia Britannica set out of storage: Wikipedia will go dark Wednesday, joining a growing number of popular websites staging an online revolt against two anti-piracy bills ...

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The who, what and why of Wikipedia's plan to shut down in protest of anti-piracy legislation. By Alice Gribbin Q: What is happening? A: Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, will blackout its ...

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales wanted to send a “big message” to the U.S. government regarding the two heinous internet censorship bills currently being considered, and after a brief period of debate the ...

Wikipedia and all of its related projects are obviously driven by the work of thousands of volunteers. Interestingly, though, while Wikipedia runs on top of an open-source stack, it’s been ...

That Wikipedia exists at all is remarkable. In little more than a decade, millions of people have collaborated to build what is perhaps the world's largest group project, a compendium of some articles ...

Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki, is proud of his invention. "We changed the world together," he says of those who contributed to his software development site C2, which spawned the online ...