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From Mbombela to the world: Bobby Shabangu has led a regional effort to draft the Africa Agenda, a document that captures the challenges faced
by the Wikimedia Communities in Africa. Photo: Supplied

Africa takes its seat at Wikimedia

Bobby Shabangu’s election to the Wikimedia Foundation Board marks a historic first for Africa and a decisive step toward global knowledge equity

YouTube has received widespread criticism for its seemingly haphazard approach to how it chooses to censor videos with offensive content, hate speech, and misinformation. (Reuters)

YouTube steers viewers to climate denial videos: nonprofit

YouTube has driven millions of viewers to climate denial videos, a US activist group said on Thursday as it called for stopping “free promotion of misinformation” at the…

Porn that shows men and women as sexual collaborators rather than men as conquerors could do a great deal to change people’s perceptions about themselves and their sex lives (John McCann/M&G)

Feminist porn answers a need

Women viewers are increasing and that could help to usher in the sex revolution we are hankering after

The Zondo judgment seems to break ranks with the very belief that cannabis is a drug. (Renata Larroyd/M&G)

Wiki foundation wants to ‘decolonise the internet’

Wikipedia contributors are few in Africa

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Get into the mania, Wiki wants your contributions

The 14th annual Wikimania conference brought together more than 500 people to discuss the future of Wikipedia and free knowledge globally

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Cellphone providers give learners free Wikipedia

A group of grade 12 pupils asked all South Africa’s cellphone providers for free Wikipedia on their phones, and they got it.

Wikipedia hopes for billion users with mobile

Wikipedia is aiming to use mobile phones to reach a billion people by 2015, a senior executive has said, doubling the present number.

Wikipedia’s ‘Goan War’ unmasked as hoax

A seemingly meticulous entry about a 17th century conflict between colonial Portugal and India’s Maratha empire has been outed as a hoax.

Under the ‘surface web’ is a vast

WTF: The internet’s secretive hangouts

Niren Tolsi goes deep into the web to find the underground world that lives on the Hidden Wiki.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales speaks during “Wikimania 2012” the international Wikimedia conference.

Calls for Wikipedia to keep up with the times

The public knowledge website is more than a decade old and remains among the top 10 Internet sites in the world, but some say it is becoming dowdy.

A mouthful of Sopa

A mouthful of Sopa

The protest against Sopa and Pipa has shown that governments of all stripes need to fear the internet, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.

Wikipedia editors may approve changes

Wikipedia faces a revolt among thousands of its contributors over proposals to change the way the online encyclopaedia is run.

Wikipedia censorship highlights a lingering sting in the tail

"Scorpions", says Wikipedia, "are eight-legged venomous arachnids. They have a long body with an extended tail with a sting.

Heard about John McCain’s special ability?

United States Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday fell victim to cheeky editing of his profile on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia founder aims to break Google stranglehold

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search will break Google’s domination as the world’s most widely used internet search engine.

Why the idea of paid entries annoys Wikipedia

When a blogger revealed earlier this year that Microsoft wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online…