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What the 'wiki' in Wikipedia actually means and where it comes from

Alongside the likes of Google, Wikipedia is one of the most famous names on the internet. If users want to search for ...
Mid Day

Tech Rewind: How Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia came to be

Wikipedia, Wiki, Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia history, History of Wikipedia, Online encyclopedia, open source web portal, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, 14th anniversary, Nupedia, Wikimedia ...
BBC

Wiki

Jim Pettiward explains the origin, meaning and use of the word 'wiki' and one of its best known derivatives, 'Wikipedia'. Click below to hear his explanation: Jimmy Wales, Head of Wikipedia 'Wiki' – W ...
The Daily Dot

The battle to destroy Wikipedia’s biggest sockpuppet army

Wikipedia editor and self-professed “bird geek” DocTree spends most of his time on the world’s largest encyclopedia editing the pages for long-dead ornithologists. So it was somewhat unusual when, in ...
The Daily Dot

Wikipedia considering rule change to expose paid editors

One of the largest policy debates in Wikipedia history is currently unfolding, sparked by a proposed amendment to the online encyclopedia’s terms of use (TOU), that ...
Fast Company

Black History Matters, So Why Is Wikipedia Missing So Much Of It?

Wikipedia is an incredible free resource and the quintessential example of the power of crowdsourcing. And yet, it can’t help but suffer from the same biases as society at large. Because of the ...