Overall Number Of Editors Stable Says Wikipedia

Details of how a single hacker found his way into the mailbox of Sarah Palin have begun to emerge with more twist than in a patch cable from a financial datacentre. By simply resetting her password and based on widely available...

Adding another smart creation into its huge bunch of online offerings, Google has announced Knol, which offers articles on a number of specific topics.Knol is said to be comparable with Wikipedia by all means, except for the fact...

Although Wikipedia has grown in recent times to be a must-check reference on a variety of subjects, there's still a lot of anonymous and unvetted information on the site.Now it seems that Virgil Griffith, the developer of...

A poster presented at the 11th Annual Scientific Meeting for the European Association for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (EACLPP) in Saragossa, Spain looks set to have wide ranging implications for the way knowledge is organised...

The company behind the site will argue that it should be granted immunity under US law. A literary agent is suing Wikipedia owner the Wikimedia Foundation over a comment posted on the site that she was "the dumbest" of...

It all started when Wales wrote on Wikipedia that he and Rachel Marsden, a Canadian political commentator, had only met once and that their relationship was over; a very public break-up that came as a shock to Ms Marsden.It could...

Professor Tara Brabazon, from the University of Brighton, has launched a staunch attack at the apparent dumbing down of students by resources such as Google and Wikipedia. The lecturer has railed against what she calls "The...

Jimmy Wales, the founder of the online pool of knowledge, Wikipedia, confirmed that Wikia search will be launched on the 7th of January - next Monday.The set includes a search application, a search algorithm and a web crawler,...

Google will launch what looks to be a formidable Wikipedia rival. Knol was announced yesterday night by Udi Manber, VP Engineering at Google.Knol is another Google attempts to convert the wealth of data available on the...

You can't ignore Wikipedia. According to Alexa, the web's open encyclopaedia is the 8th most popular website on the internet, ranking just below to Facebook although it has the lowest full time employee headcount of the top...

The Wikimedia Foundation is not responsible for defamatory comments published in its user-generated encyclopaedia Wikipedia, a French court has ruled. The comments had been removed quickly after being notified to the site...

In an escalation of a row that has been brewing for some months, two Associated Press journalists have sued the state of Arkansas for allegedly withholding information about which government computers were used to edit entries on...

It's recently been amusing to look at where Wikipedia's anonymous edits come from. There have been many self-serving edits from obvious places, as well as selfless ones from unexpected sources. I am most amused by this selfless...

In May, Wikipedia had 46.8 million unique visitors, up 72 per cent from June 2006, NetRatings said. Wikipedia has also finished on top of the news and information category every month this year - ranking ahead of Landmark...

It seems that a Wikipedia posting about the death of pro wrestler Chris Benoit's wife - which preceded the discovery of the Benoit family's bodies - is becoming a major headache for police in Georgia.According to ABC news, Lt....