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OMG why is wiki down?? How will I do my homework? WTF is this??? JESSIE have u seen this?? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE WAR OF 1812 STARTED OR WHY OR WHAT IT IS?? I'm angry on Twitter. More »
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Wikipedia may be going dark within the hour in protest of SOPA/PIPA but that doesn't mean it's going offline completely. With very little work, you'll be able to access the online encyclopedia tomorrow—even if that does mean going against the entire spirit of the protest. More »
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Tomorrow huge sites like Wikipedia and Reddit will "blackout" in protest of SOPA, and the MPAA doesn't like the behavior of these "technology business interests"one bit. More »
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Despite rumblings from Capitol Hill that the recently-defanged SOPA legislation not see the light of day, Wikipedia has announced that "the Internet must remain free" and that it is joining the blackout protests scheduled for January 18th, nonetheless. More »
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You might recognize Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, whose mug is often plastered atop his online encyclopedia's entries giving you puppy dog eyes for donations. Or are they serial killer eyes? Or Abe Lincoln eyes? Or anything, really? Web design 911 emergency! More »
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Ever wondered if anyone outside your redneck little town writes about it on Wikipedia? Or if anyone has ever written about Australia in Arabic? Guess no longer, because someone's worked it out for you. More »
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Is it flattering to have people mistake you for Julian Assange? That's what happened to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who confused UK border controls when they thought the Wikipedia man was notorious international man of mystery Assange. More »
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Captcha systems, those psychedelic-font phrases designed to weed out bots from users, are a staple website security. And, thanks to Stanford Researchers, they may be quickly becoming completely useless. More »
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QR codes have fallen out of fashion and sunk to an all-time low. But Wikipedia and its QRpedia service may change all that. More »
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is the most "scholarly of encyclopaedias" according to Wikipedia (heh), is about to release a new iPad app. It costs 2 bucks a month to subscribe to their knowledge base, which is cheaper than the $1400 for the print set but far, far more expensive than Wikipedia's freeeeeee. More »
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Did you know you can rate pages on Wikipedia now? It's new. And it's meant to get you involved, with the ultimate goal of increasing the site's accuracy, diversity and completeness. It won't work. More »
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Dragon Go! is a new mobile app that brings Nuance-quality voice search to the iPhone. You can search Google, Wikipedia, Yelp, YouTube and more without typing a single letter on your keyboard. More »
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Come aboard the Magic School Bus, children, and unlock all the wonders of our fair universe! Except due to budgetary constraints and redundancies (and my goodness, have you seen what gas costs lately?), we're only gonna pull into Wikipedia Station. More »
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Wikipedia's entry for substance dependence says it better than I ever could. Which is pretty much the whole problem. Please, for the love of high school research papers and stupid bar arguments everywhere, please let the Wikiservers stay strong. [xkcd] More »
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So, in 2006, Virginian senate candidate George Allen made a pretty-racist comment about an Indian, camera-toting rep from his rival's campaign, calling him "Macaca" and "welcoming" him to America. Like an asshole! Media outrage popped—as did a Wiki-war. More »
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How does Wikipedia tell the history of the world? Gareth Lloyd and Tom Martin show us in 100 seconds of blips and blops the locations and dates of 15,500 world events, as recorded in the world's largest crowd-sourced knowledge warehouse. More »
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Recently NextAroundYou released their second app in the Wikihood family, Wikihood People. Much like its predecessor, People brings you Wikipedia articles based on where you are, but instead of places you are given a roster of every famous (and infamous) figure to come through the neighborhood. More »
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Before you whine about this Livescribe pen app only containing 100,000 of the 3,567,121 articles currently on Wikipedia, just stop and remember how freakin' advanced our world has become, now that you can tap a written word and see information on that subject instantly. More »
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The next time you think about hitting up Baton Rouge for some historical enrichment, you can save yourself the trip. Because at this statue of Louisiana's first governor, the biographical write-up is two printed out pages out from his Wikipedia entry. From 2009. Including external links. More »
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At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, scientists are building RoboEarth, a sort of Wikipedia for robots that will let them independently share instructions for tasks they've mastered. Needless to say, Oh shit! More »
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An art installation for Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary party suspended 18 printers over a room. Why? The printers printed real time edits made to Wikipedia to show the physical record that Wikipedia's community leaves behind. Which is, lots and lots of edits. More »
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Wikipedia turned 10 years old today and to celebrate the wonderful crowdsourced, potluck of information, here's a look at their awkward (and sometimes, wild) past. Their first six weeks of existence, all 10,000 entries, are logged right here. More »
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Fire up Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales' face is still grimacing at you—but he should be disappearing soon, as they've raised over $16 million for their Wikipedia donation drive. $22 was the average donation made, apparently. [PC Mag] More »
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Yeah, sure, you probably know a lot. But there's always that movie or star constellation or post-graduate vocabulary word or Wikipedia fact that you can dig into. Here are the six best apps that'll satisfy your insatiable thirst for knowledge. More »
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You've gotta admire the brazenness of this developer's balls. Offering "a brief, yet throughout [sic] introduction about Nirvana - the legendary rock band of US," the Nirvana: The Complete Biography iPhone app costs $40—and features copied-and-pasted Wikipedia content. More »
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Why bother downloading iBooks when there's a wealth of free information on Wikipedia just gagging for your brain to wrap itself around? Discover is a cool app for the iPad that arranges Wikipedia articles into magazine articles for easier reading. More »
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Aluminium or Aluminum? Should a photo of a giant spider be placed in the entry for arachnophobia? Are Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader considered the same character? What does "pwned" mean? These are the questions which began some of the greatest edit wars on Wikipedia. More »
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What's this here? A leaked prop from Tron: Legacy? A high-tech bug zapper? It's something much more basic than those, but still fit for a king. More »
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Wikimedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has abruptly stepped down following a controversial porn purge that saw Wales himself single-handedly deleting questionable content from Wikimedia Foundation servers. Updated. More »
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I know! Why don't we all spend our money printing free information off the internet, bind it in covers and clutter our bookcases with it? Wouldn't you like to own books with titles such as "Toasters," "Penguins" and "Antidisestablishmentarianism"? More »
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HP buying Palm made some waves, but it's got nothing on the other big tech deals we've spotted on the horizon: More »
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Normally I'd file this image under our "what is this" image cache, but as you've already clocked, it's somehow related to our Memory [Forever] theme. Those pretty colors are a visualization of the thousands of Wikipedia edits made by a bot. More »
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In today's Remainders: progress. Sort of. Openmoko's WikiReader takes baby steps towards usability; a new sculpture series offers busts of the Darth Vader that could've been; an MSNBC slideshow sheds light on the photographic pursuits of ISS astronauts, and more. More »
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Fortunately we don't have to think too hard about what they'd look like, because French artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal has designed a series of book covers for 10 of our favourite web services. More »
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In today's batch of things that didn't make the cut we've got a bit of NSFW humor, Time's list of gadgets of the year, an angry celebrity suing an Internet person, Dell profiting through Twitter, and more. More »
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This heat cold map signifies the total number of Wikis tied to each country. The designer learned there are literally more articles written about Antarctica and even Middle Earth than many countries in Africa. [mark graham via boingboing] More »
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Canada Has Its Very Own Version of the AT&T vs. Verizon Ad Lawsuit...CollegeHumor Tackles Modern Warfare 2 (With Bonus Giz Appearance)...LG BL4 Gets Christmas Edition...VUDU Adds Wikipedia, Possibly the World's Most Boring Update... More »
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The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world's fifth most-popular website keeps growing. [WSJ] More »
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3 buttons, 3 million topics: Wikipedia in the palm of your hand. OpenMoko's $99 WikiReader arrives today, and could be useful for kids (or luddites), but it's an odd little gadget in a world of 3G smartphones. More »
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App concepts don't get much simpler than this, or much cooler: Cyclopedia takes Wikipedia's tens of thousands of geotagged entries, and overlays them onto a live, compass-oriented view of your surroundings. More »
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