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- Intergalactic Computer Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network 4 comments
- Wikipedia’s co-founder takes on Facebook with ad-free social network https://thenextweb.com/insider/2019/11/14/wikipedias-co-founder-takes-on-facebook-with-ad-free-social-network/ 15 comments
- Wikipedia blocks 26 million users from the UK's largest mobile network operator https://utrs-beta.wmflabs.org/public/appeal/view?hash=39df2e56e0709bbb7129ab8aa4fdea6f 16 comments
- Wikipedia isn’t officially a social network, but the harassment can get ugly https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/wikipedia-harassment-wikimedia-foundation.html 89 comments
- WT.Social – new social network set up by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia https://wt.social/ 3 comments
- The future of Wikipedia as a DCO — Blockchain Education Network https://medium.com/college-cryptocurrency-network/reposium-dco-the-future-of-wikipedia-4be080cfa027#.6099enla7 5 comments ethereum
- Want an Ad-Free Social Network? Wikipedia's Co-Founder Made One https://www.pcmag.com/news/371994/want-an-ad-free-social-network-wikipedias-co-founder-made 3 comments privacy
- Be careful what you read. A network organized by Hungarian nationalists rewrote most of the articles about Romanians on the English Wikipedia to change history. https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/1b3ijjl/atentie_la_ce_cititi_o_retea_organizata_de/ 558 comments europe
- Science through Wikipedia: A novel representation of open knowledge through co-citation networks https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228713 4 comments science
- Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival social network https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/ 4 comments nottheonion
- Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival social network https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/ 28 comments technology
- Is Wikipedia banned on Jio network now? It says IP address cannot be found. But I can access it using vpn and via BSNL network. https://www.wikipedia.org/ 8 comments india
- Google to 'diversify' searches with social networking ephemera. Do we really need twitter results up there with wikipedia? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/07/google-realtime 3 comments reddit.com
- I created an interactive social network graph of all the philosophers in Wikipedia, charting who influenced whom and including filters for different schools of though, to help myself get into philosophy (xpost from /r/dataisbeautiful) [OC] https://oliveiradata.com/2017/01/09/social-network-visualization-a-history-of-philosophy/ 8 comments philosophy
- Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet. So...Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-angola-pirates-zero-rating/ 194 comments technology
- The United States' alleged large-scale surveillance of global communications networks will badly harm the U.S. cloud computing industry, the founder of Wikipedia said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/net-us-wikipedia-spying-idusbre9a613a20131107 4 comments technology
- The United States' alleged large-scale surveillance of global communications networks will badly harm the U.S. cloud computing industry, the founder of Wikipedia said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/net-us-wikipedia-spying-idusbre9a613a20131107k 4 comments technology
- Please discuss Actor Network Theory a little so I can learn about it. After a discussion about it and reading the wikipedia entry I believe it summarizes reality as I see it. Thanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/actor-network_theory 39 comments philosophy
- Russia temporarily restricts access to the global network to test its 'sovereign Internet' - This test prevented Russians from accessing Western services, including Google and Wikipedia, while maintaining access to those hosted within Russia. https://english.nv.ua/nation/russia-tests-its-sovereign-internet-russia-news-50337488.html 373 comments worldnews
- Freenode, the IRC network that supports Wikipedia and many open-source projects loses all staff after former head of staff "sells" the network https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461 2 comments technology
- Wikipedia has tried to block users coming from the Tor network since 2007, alleging vandalism, spam, and abuse. This research tells a different story: that people use Tor to make meaningful contributions to Wikipedia. https://blog.torproject.org/the-value-of-anonymous-contributions-wikipedia 14 comments privacy
- Wikipedia founder calls for social media strike - People are being urged to stop using social media for up to 48 hours later this week in an effort to pressure the networks into restoring control of personal data to users. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48825410 175 comments technology
- There is a huge edit war on Wikipedia where trolls like the user "Jtbobwaysf" are trying very hard to inject the word "bcash" into Bitcoin Cash pages and reverting/editing other pages that speak factually poorly on topics such as Lightning Network, Segwit, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bitcoin_Cash#aka_Bcash 146 comments btc
- People are starting to realize how toxic Gregory Maxwell is to Bitcoin, saying there are plenty of other coders who could do crypto and networking, and "he drives away more talent than he can attract." Plus, he has a 10-year record of damaging open-source projects, going back to Wikipedia in 2006. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4kipvu/samsung_mow_austinhill_blockstream_now_its_time/d3fhhh8 122 comments btc
- Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza. Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality... http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/03/8563947/edits-wikipedia-pages-bell-garner-diallo-traced-1-police-plaza 6 comments politics