Weekend Roundup: Coronavirus Wrecks MWC, Un-Essential Phones Nick Kolakowski, February 14, 2020 8 min read Last week, we discussed how the coronavirus might impact Foxconn’s iPhone production lines. This week, it’s clear...
Wikipedia and the War on Sockpuppets Nick Kolakowski, October 22, 2013 4 min read Wikipedia editors are actively engaged in a wide-ranging battle against PR firms attempting to edit the...
Kiwix Aims to Spread Wikipedia’s Reach Nick Kolakowski, February 4, 2013 6 min read Over the past several years, wikis have exerted a sizable influence on how people share and consume information online....
Wikipedia Warns of Outages During Data-Center Transition Mark Hachman, January 22, 2013 3 min read Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia sites may be intermittently inaccessible through Jan. 24, as the company transitions...
Wikipedia’s Outage Culprit: A Severed Cable Mark Hachman, August 7, 2012 3 min read Note: Note actual cable responsible for Wikipedia outage. Wikipedia suffered an outage Monday, Aug. 6 that the...
Researcher’s Wikipedia Big Data Project Shows Globalization Rate Nick Kolakowski, June 15, 2012 3 min read Wikipedia, which features nearly 4 million articles in English alone, is widely considered a godsend for high...
