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Wikipedia has warned this week that users seeing advertisements on any of its pages may be infected with malware. The website emphasizes the company is a non-profit one, supported only by donations.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, the standard for reference for over 200 years, has decided to bring production of its printed 32-volume sets to an end. This decision is due to rapidly declining sales and competition with online services such as Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia's English-language site is leading a protest against the new Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that major Internet companies consider draconian. Wikipedia, along with some others, will "blackout" on Jan. 18 for 24 hrs.
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SOPA is on hold, but Wikipedia’s “strike” threat for tomorrow and similar action by Reddit and Boing Boing are still going ahead. The White House has expressed less than fizzy enthusiasm for anti piracy proposals and is asking for help from users.
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Some of the Internet's leading websites, including Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, and BoingBoing, will go dark tomorrow to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Here's why Canadians should care.
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Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales hopes certain measures lined up for Wednesday, including shutting down its online encyclopedia for 24 hours, would yield positive results as Wikipedia and thousands of other sites protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
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The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which has already got flak from Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yahoo! and others is getting a lot hotter. Wikipedia is going to be offline on Wednesday in protest.
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The co-founder of Wikipedia has threatened a "strike action" in protest of an anti-piracy bill being discussed in the U.S. Senate. Jimmy Wales said he may be forced to protest the proposed law by turning off the English-language version of the site.
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Italian Wikipedia is protesting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's new wiretapping law that would force bloggers and publications to remove objectionable content and revise it within 48 hours. it.wikipedia.org is now shut down.
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Contributors to the largest community-edited encyclopedia on the Web will soon have a button similar to Facebook's “Like” button to show support to one another.
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Wikipedia is launching a new project aimed at covering all aspects of life in Monmouth.
The world’s first “Wikipedia town” will launch on Saturday in the small town of Monmouth in Wales. The town now has more than 1,000 ceramic plaques on every important building, school and on hundreds of shops. The plaques each have a unique QR bar code...
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales is to help the UK government make the academic research it funds freely available to all.
Wikipedia and the firm behind Lolcats are ending links with GoDaddy following the US hosting firm's support for a controversial anti-piracy law.
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia shuts down for 24 hours, joining other websites in a protest against plans for new US anti-piracy laws.
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