The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a demand instructing Wikipedia to stop using the FBI seal in it’s articles, or face legal action. FBI lawyer David C. Larson sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation last July 28 asking the online encyclopedia to comply with federal law and remove the seal. The FBI letter [...]
Wikipedia Down after server overheat: Wikipedia, the internets’ largest free online encyclopedia, experienced major downtime Wednesday for about two hours starting 1:00 PM EST. The downtime was caused by an overheating problem in our European data center where many of Wikipedia’s servers turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access [...]
We reported Wednesday night that conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Hawaii hospital. But it look like Wikipedia took a little further when they pronounced Rush Limbaugh Dead! Just moments after news broke out that the radio show host was hospitalized, Wikipedia updated it’s Rush Limbaugh page pronouncing him dead! Here’s [...]
Wikipedia has disputed claims that it has lost a huge number of editors that help maintain the online encyclopedia. It was reported on November 26 that ten times more editors had left Wikipedia in early 2009 than during the same period in 2008. Blaming a difference in what counts as an “editor,” the group overseeing [...]
