Wikipedia adds its 4 Millionth article
The English version of Wikipedia – the primary web site visited by millions of people worldwide – has just added article number “4 million“. Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, made the announcement a few minutes ago, stating: “I am informed that English Wikipedia has passed the 4 million article mark. Awaiting final confirmation on which is [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.10 Questions with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales was on PBS earlier tonight, and while a lot of folks don’t seem to like the lack of special effects and dramatic visual transitions of the Public Broadcasting Service, the channel maintains an old school journalistic attention to detail. The Wikipedia founder stated that Wikipedia needs more female editors, to offset the number [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Wikipedia pulls out of GoDaddy
Despite the reversal of GoDaddy with regards to their support of the controversial SOPA bill, Jimmy Wales – co-founder of Wikipedia – announced that his company will regardless pull its domains away from the world’s biggest registrar. “I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia domain names will move away from GoDaddy. Their position on [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WikiPedia locks TIME Person of the year page after repeated vandalisms
As we reported earlier, the WikiPedia entry about the TIME Magazine Person of the Year was attacked by fans of WikiLeaks. An apparent supporter of Julian Assange removed Mark Zuckerberg’s name from the list of annual awards and replaced it with the name of the WikiLeaks operator – currently in police custody in the UK. [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WikiLeaks fans instill Julian Assange as TIME’s person of the year
The electronic war games continue. A few hours ago, apparent WikiLeaks fans operating from an IP in Dublin, Ireland, removed Mark Zuckerberg’s name as TIME Magazine’s person of the year for 2010. The change occurred in the WikiPedia entry for the TIME Person of the Year. In its place, they put the name of controversial [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.From a Movie to a Hangover – A Wikipedia adventure
At the tender age of 8, a friend of mine that shall remain anonymous invented the portable encyclopedia. Several years before the personal computer era and two decades before the world wide web era, my school friend discovered that with the aid of a pair of scissors every homework would be a cinch: he’d simply [...]
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