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What is Wikipedia? Here's what you should know about the crowd-sourced and openly edited online encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia featuring openly editable content created and sourced by us…
Jennifer Still
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How to create a Wikipedia page for a person, place, company, or any notable topic
To help you create a Wikipedia page, the website provides a helpful widget to walk users through th…
Jennifer Still
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The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages
"A mid career software engineer at FB makes more than that," wrote one user on X.
Kai Xiang Teo
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Online dictionary Merriam-Webster acquires Wordle clone, Quordle
Encyclopedia Britannica subsidiary popular for its online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, has acquired…
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Conspiracy-theory encyclopedia Wikispooks is thriving during the coronavirus pandemic, seeing huge traffic gains from search engines
Wikispooks, a conspiracy-theory site, has had a more than 90% increase in traffic during the pandem…
Rachel E. Greenspan
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Warren Buffett's favorite encyclopedia became his 'most difficult problem.' Here's the story of World Book.
A year later, Buffett touted the "most dramatically revised edition since 1962" with 10,000 more co…
Theron Mohamed
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The online history of creator Chris Chan, who was charged with incest after leaked audio was posted online about mom
Christine Weston Chandler, known as Chris Chan, is one of the most cataloged individuals online. He…
Steven Asarch
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edX, a non-profit founded by Harvard and MIT, provides online courses from Ivy League schools for free or cheap — here's how it works
edX aims to make top-tier education more affordable and accessible — here's how it works for its 25…
Mara Leighton
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Putin proposed replacing Wikipedia in Russia with a 'Big Russian Encyclopedia' days after passing a law to let him cut off the entire country from the web
Kremlin officials argue that the new system will help protect Russia's internet in the face of cybe…
Sahar Esfandiari
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For years, an American has been writing articles in a stereotypical Scottish accent on the official Scots Wikipedia, and some people online are not happy
TikTok's Scots Wikipedia page describes it as a "social netwirkin" app "uised tae creaut short danc…
Katie Canales
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Chris Chan, the online personality accused by police of incest with her mother, has been trolled by the internet for over a decade
Chris Chan, the internet star who was arrested and charged with incest, has been involved in numero…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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The EU has backed tough new laws to enforce copyright online
The original version of the new laws was rejected in July after widespread criticism. Most con…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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Nintendo's biggest game of 2018 proves that the gaming giant still hasn't figured out how to make online games
"Ultimate" is essentially a fighting game, but it contains so, so much more than that: A 700-plus l…
Ben Gilbert
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Spying and rape threats: Why people use Tor to hide online
But given the accompanying risks - the harassment, the abuse, the facilitation of crime - is untrac…
Rob Price
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Thousands of people share their knowledge online for free - and for many, it's supercharging their careers
His mentor at Andrews, Karl Bailey, had encouraged him to look into self-determination theory for a…
Shana Lebowitz
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Here's the pitch deck that Holloway used to raise $4.6 million from NEA and the New York Times for its online 'how-to' manual business
"We came to VCs and said look, all the different types of knowledge you find in a library, most of …
Megan Hernbroth
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Apple built an 'electronic city' online 21 years ago that still stands out as one of its most puzzling flops
As an article in Macworld explained, "Each building in the city represented a different topical foc…
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Republicans in Idaho introduced an anti-cannibalism law to address fears around human composting
Conservative lawmakers in Idaho are so worried about human composting that they want to strengthen …
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Wikipedia founder escalates feud with Elon Musk. He says the former Twitter is 'overrun by trolls and lunatics' — and people are fleeing.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales criticized Elon Musk's approach to moderating content on X and shared…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Warren Buffett once counted World Book among his best businesses. Here's why the publisher became his 'most difficult problem.'
Buffett listed the encyclopedia maker as one of Berkshire Hathaway's "Sainted Seven" businesses in …