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### [Wikipedia seeks World Heritage Site status][1]
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[![Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales][2] ][1]
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Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that can be edited by anybody, has
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launched a campaign to be listed as a World Heritage Site as part of its 10th
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birthday celebrations.
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26 May 2011
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### [Gagging order celebrities named][3]
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[![][4] ][3]
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Identities of four celebrities are disclosed on the website.
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28 Apr 2011
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### [Wikipedia: top five Wikigroans][5]
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[![Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales][2] ][5]
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Wikigroaning is the art of comparing tangentially related, or unrelated, pairs
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of Wikipaedia articles to highlight the encyclopaedia's biases, particlarly
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towards a young, male, nerdy set of interests.
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31 Jan 2011
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### [Why Wikipedia's editors are mostly male][6]
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[![Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales][2] ][6]
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says that he knows the site must do more to
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appeal outside its typical, male editors
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31 Jan 2011
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### [Wikipedia seeks women writers][7]
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[![Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales][2] ][7]
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Wikipedia is to mount an effort to recruit more women contributors, after
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research found more than 85 per cent of articles are written by men.
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31 Jan 2011
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### [Wikipedia at 10: 'It's what the web is for'][8]
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**Matt Warman **talks to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about a decade of the
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world's first free encyclopaedia
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15 Jan 2011
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### [A Wiki world][9]
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**Telegraph View: **Wikipedia, 10 years old today, is a heartening attempt by
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volunteers to work together to construct something worthwhile online.
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14 Jan 2011
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### [The other me is Gary the Namibian airline pilot][10]
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Even Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page sounds like a Radio 4 bulletin on temazepam,
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writes **Ceri Radford**.
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13 Jan 2011
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### [Wikileaks founder admits sexual relations with accuser][11]
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Julian Assange, the founder of the Wikileaks whistleblower website, admitted
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that he had sexual relations with one of two Swedish women who accused him of
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sex crimes.
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02 Sep 2010
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### [Agatha Christie's family criticise Wikipedia][12]
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The family of Agatha Christie has criticised Wikipedia for revealing the
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ending of The Mousetrap, the world's longest running play.
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29 Aug 2010
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### [Wikipedia rolls out 'pending changes'][13]
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Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, says the process of flagged revisions will
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make it easier for users to edit some of its most controversial articles
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15 Jun 2010
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### [Wikipedia porn row sees founder give up his editing privileges][14]
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Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, has come under fire after personally
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deleting 'many' images he deemed pornographic from the digital encyclopaedia.
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11 May 2010
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### [MPs 'censor' Wikipedia][15]
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MPs embarrassed by expenses scandal accused of online cover-up.
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08 May 2010
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### [Google is 'positive force' in China, says Wales][16]
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The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has publicly backed Google's stance in
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China, saying he believes the company's presence in the country is a "positive
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force"
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18 Mar 2010
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### [Yeats and Freud works for free][17]
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The poetry of WB Yeats and texts by the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
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are among the cultural works available to read for free online from today, as
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their copyright expires.
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01 Jan 2010
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### [Wikipedia founder launches appeal to help protect the site][18]
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has launched a personal appeal for
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donations to help "protect" the online encyclopedia.
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18 Dec 2009
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### [Wikipedia ordered by judge to break confidentiality of contributor][19]
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A senior judge has ordered Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to disclose the
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identity of one of its contributors after a mother and her young child pleaded
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for help in identifying an alleged blackmailer.
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02 Dec 2009
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### [Wikipedia - more like an encyclopaedia][20]
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Given Wikipedia's more stringent focus on accuracy, its pool of contributors
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will inevitably decrease, says **Matt Warman. **
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25 Nov 2009
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### [Wikipedia 'losing contributors'][21]
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Wikipedia is losing tens of thousands of volunteer editors a month, according
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to a study that suggests the pioneering spirit of the collaborative
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encyclopaedia is in decline.
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25 Nov 2009
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### [Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy][22]
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Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, tells Emma Barnett of the site's
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'increasing focus on quality and referencing'.
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17 Nov 2009
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### [Google and Facebook teach Vatican mysteries of internet][23]
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Two very different worlds collide this week when web-savvy executives of
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Google, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia meet representatives of the Vatican to
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explain the mysteries of the internet.
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11 Nov 2009
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### [Internet's 40th birthday: 20 milestones][24]
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Happy 40th birthday, the internet. The first message was sent across Arpanet
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exactly 40 years ago, on 29 October 1969. We look at a few of the milestones
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in its development.
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29 Oct 2009
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### [Focus on Tory Wikipedia 'rigging'][25]
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Chris Bryant, the Europe Minister, has called for an inquiry into an alleged
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Wikipedia cover-up by the Conservatives
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18 Oct 2009
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### [Wikipedia-flavoured beef on menu][26]
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Fans of Chinese food are accustomed to seeing unlikely combinations of
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flavours on menus. But beef that tastes of Wikipedia?
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08 Oct 2009
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### [Wikipedia articles flagged for deletion][27]
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Wikipedia owes its depth - 13 million articles and counting - to a policy of
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collaboration. But openness can be a mixed blessing.
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01 Oct 2009
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[More stories from this section][28]
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Related Sections
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### [Google][29]
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### [Facebook][30]
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### [Social Media][31]
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### [Internet][32]
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### [Jimmy Wales][33]
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## [Wikipedia Blogs »][34]
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### [A collaboration of Wikipedians to gather at the British Library][35]
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By Ian Douglas
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10 Jan 2011
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### [Jimmy Wales: people think I'm responsible for Wikileaks][36]
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By Shane Richmond
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11 Aug 2010
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### [Wikipedia: the encyclopedia anyone can edit (after review by an
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experienced editor)][37]
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By Shane Richmond
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25 Aug 2009
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### [Wikipedia should delete the deletionists][38]
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By Shane Richmond
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07 Jul 2009
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In Wikipedia
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[![Leading French author Houellebecq accused of Wikipedia cut and paste ][39]
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### [Leading French author Houellebecq accused of Wikipedia cut and
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paste][40]
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[![][41] ][42]
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### [Wikipedia denies losing editors][42]
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[![Caroline Flint, Labour MP and former Health Minister ][43] ][44]
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### [MPs' scandals covered up on Wikipedia][44]
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[![Wikipedia][45] ][46]
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### [Wikipedia goes down][46]
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[![The Telegraph on Twitter][47]][48]
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### [Follow us on Twitter][48]
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External Links
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### [Wikipedia][49]
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### [Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia][50]
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### [Jimmy Wales - Blog][51]
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### [Telegraph Blogs - Wikipedia][34]
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The Telegraph is not responsible for the content of external internet sites
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2. [Mark Zuckerberg: children should be allowed to use Facebook][53]
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3. [US develop software to analyse metaphors][54]
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4. [Stuxnet virus: US refuses to deny involvement][55]
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5. [Nook ereader impresses the US but might never come to Britain][56]
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1. [Reiss website crashes as shoppers rush to buy Kate's dress][57]
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2. [Newspaper publishes name of footballer with gagging order][58]
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3. [Tweets about super-injunction footballer spike after attempts to gag
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Twitter][59]
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4. [Max Clifford: Ryan Giggs 'affair' may never have come out without
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injunction][60]
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5. [Ryan Giggs unmasked as gagging order footballer][61]
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3. [Jeremy Clarkson texts Jemima Khan over 'nightmare' super-injunction
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claims on Twitter][64]
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4. [Wikipedia users name celebrities with gagging orders][3]
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5. [Alarm over EU 'Great Firewall' proposal][65]
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[EDITOR'S CHOICE »][66]
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### [Gil Scott-Heron: 'A voice for Shakespeare'][67]
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[![Gil Scott-Heron][68]][67]
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Composer, musician, poet and author whose writing provided a vivid commentary
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on the black American experience.
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