Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered ...

At the start of the year, a request was made for Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia, to stop accepting cryptocurrency. The debate saw familiar arguments used for and against the proposal: ...

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed ...

Earlier today, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees has appointed Katherine Maher as its new executive director. “Our mission is vast, diverse, and ...

Nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia plans to use the grant to improve the user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, among other things. Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News.

Nearly 200 Wikipedia editors have taken the unprecedented step of calling for a member of the Wikimedia Foundation board of directors to be tossed out. The Wikimedia Foundation, which governs the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — If you clicked on a Wikipedia article this year, you contributed to the estimated 2.4 billion hours spent reading English-language articles in 2025, and we now know which articles were ...

Last week, users around the world found Wikipedia down after the online, crowdsourced encyclopedia became the target of a massive, sustained DDoS attack — one that it is still actively fighting ...

Foundation reaches goal of raising more than $6 million to sustain Wikipedia. The money will be used to maintain and grow the foundation's technical infrastructure. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

WASHINGTON — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court today to review a challenge to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance of ...