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The Wikipedia Competitor That’s Harnessing Blockchain For Epistemological Supremacy
Everipedia, a two-year-old online encyclopedia, will become a decentralized, peer-to-peer, user-owned resource. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a2726b3b266200b7c8e15c9/master/pass/Everpedia-Art.jpg Feed: All Latest
A security expert built an unofficial Wikipedia for the dark web
Wikipedia is a nigh-essential source of information, but it’s usually so accessible in Western countries that users forget when it isn’t. Take Turkey, which blocked its citizens from accessing the site in April and rejected an appeal when the Wikimedia Foundation refused to play ball with the government, part of its wider effort to silence […]
What's The Scariest Wikipedia Page You've Ever Read?
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You'll Want To Lock The Doors After Reading These 11 Wikipedia Pages
Location: Pine Barrens, New Jersey Description: The Jersey Devil is described to have the head of a goat, giant bat wings, horns, small arms, hooves, and a forked tail. Why You’ll Lose Sleep: As legend goes, a woman named Mother Leeds became pregnant with her 13th child, who she cursed to be the Devil. In […]
A programmer turned Wikipedia into a classic text adventure
Wikipedia as a classic text adventure: this “game” now exists, and it’s thanks to a London developer who figured out a clever way to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is Wikipedia’s API. The Javascript project works on any desktop or mobile web browser, and it starts out looking like an ’80s Infocom video game box. (Always […]
19 Wikipedia Pages That’ll Send You Into A Week-Long Wikihole
We recently asked members of the our to tell us which Wikipedia articles they love to waste time reading. Here are their recommendations… 1. Unit 731 en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org Unit 731 was a unit of the Japanese Imperial Army that carried out brutal (and, in many cases, lethal) experimentation on human beings during World War II under […]
China is bringing together 20,000 scholars and academics to launch an online encyclopedia that can rival Wikipedia
AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan Shanghai (AFP) – China plans to launch its own online encyclopaedia next year, hoping to build a “cultural Great Wall” that can rival Wikipedia as a go-to information source for Chinese Internet users who Beijing fears are being corrupted by foreign influences. China is under pressure to write its own encyclopaedia […]
China's Shot at Wikipedia Aims to Be a “Great Wall of Culture”
Image sources: Getty, Wikipedia China and Wikipedia have always had a contentious relationship and it appears that authorities are beginning to realize that if they can’t allow access to the site, they’ll have to build one of their own. But the leader of the new project says “our goal is not to catch up, but […]
Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia after it refused to remove content
Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia on Saturday, according to Reuters, using a law designed to grant authorities the ability restrict content the country considers obscene or a threat to national security. Access to the online encyclopedia appears to have been blocked at 8:00AM local time on Saturday morning, according to monitoring group Turkey Blocks, a […]
