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• Article | 20/01/2012 SOPA, PIPA opponents celebrate, but say work isn't done

  A day after an estimated 10,000 websites went dark and more than 7 million people signed a Google.com petition opposing two controversial copyright en...
• Article | 18/01/2012 Wikipedia, Craigslist, other sites black out against SOPA at midnight

  Wikipedia and some other Internet companies blacked out their websites in one way or the other early Wednesday in protest against controversial legisl...
• Article | 18/01/2012 Opponents step up pressure against SOPA, PIPA

  The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act being debated in the U.S. Congress still have major problems, opponents said Monday, even after the ...
• Article | 17/01/2012 Wikipedia to go dark in SOPA protest, Twitter declines

  Wikipedia has decided to black out the English version of the online encyclopedia for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against controversial legislati...
• 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 | 5/10/2011 Wikipedia hides Italian language edition to protest new law

  Wikipedia said it was hiding the Italian edition of the online encyclopedia to protest against a proposed new rule in the country, that will require w...
• 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 | 15/01/2011 The 10 biggest hoaxes in Wikipedia's first 10 years

  Wikipedia will celebrate its 10th birthday on Saturday, with founder Jimmy Wales having built the site from nothing to one of the most influential des...
• Article | 3/11/2010 Wikidroid for Wikipedia

  Want access to the world's most popular encyclopedia -- wherever you are? Then get Wikidroid (free), which does an excellent job of putting the power ...
• Article | 2/07/2010 Massive rise in Asia Pacific social media posts

  If you think big brother is watching your every move, he probably is, according to a leading online researcher, with Australia leading the world in so...
• Article | 19/06/2010 Wikipedia in your pocket

  Many people are dismissive of Wikipedia. For example, back in 2005, as quoted in the Ideas in Action blog, Robert McHenry, a former editor-in-chief of...
• Article | 14/05/2010 Wikipedia upgrades layout, features

  The Wikimedia Foundation has started rolling out a new look and upgraded functionality for Wikipedia that will be applied to all of the online encyclo...
• 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 | 24/03/2010 Wikipedia founder praises Google over China decision

  A co-founder of popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia praised Google for its decision to stop censoring Internet searches in China and called on other...