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Article | 8/04/2013 French government agency forced Wikipedia volunteer to delete entry
A French intelligence agency ordered a Wikipedia volunteer to delete a page about a military radio relay last month, alleging the page contained class...
Article | 13/02/2013 YouTube fights Russian public safety agency's video ban
Google's video site, YouTube, is challenging a Russian federal agency's ban on one of the videos it hosts in a bid to clarify the effects of a law som...
Article | 30/01/2013 Tech industry sharply criticizes German online copyright bill
As German government officials prepared to meet to discuss a controversial online copyright bill on Wednesday, Yahoo, Facebook and German online start...
Article | 11/01/2013 Wikimedia travel site Wikivoyage launching next week
Wikimedia Foundation, the host of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, is launching next week a global online travel guide called Wikivoyage.
Article | 24/12/2011 GoDaddy pulls its support from SOPA
Giant domain name registrar GoDaddy.com has pulled its support from the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act after owners of several websites announce...
Article | 7/08/2011 Wikipedia Aiming For More Contributors
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia isn't in danger of dying, but an extra dose of contributors would give it a much-needed shot in the arm.
Article | 19/07/2011 Wikipedia rolls out ratings for English-language articles
The Wikimedia Foundation is in the process of adding a ratings feature to all English-language articles on Wikipedia, so that readers can evaluate the...
Article | 12/05/2010 Wikimedia child porn row escalates
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has revoked some his site founder's privileges after contributors protested that he had deleted images of childr...
Article | 26/03/2010 Wikipedia suffers global collapse
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation Web sites went down for hours on Wednesday in a global outage caused by a domino effect of technical problems...
Article | 28/10/2009 Wikipedia edit system should be in place by year's end
The English-language Wikipedia should have a system in place by December to vet anonymous edits for certain high-profile entries, according to the onl...

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