Jimmy Wales

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A broader and better balanced range of subjects has become Wikipedia’s chief challenge as it heads into its next 20 years. Photo Illustration: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images
Wikipedia at 20: Did you know Will Ferrell was once not killed in a paragliding incident?

It’s the information I don’t want from Wikipedia that always snares me. The detours. The footnotes. The link four lines into an entry that leads me to(...)

“Saying we’re only looking for unicorns isn’t necessarily taking the right view; we’re looking for quality.” Image: iStock
Is Ireland too risk-averse to create tech unicorns?

Failure, in most walks of life, can seem like such a final, irreversible misstep. In Silicon Valley it is just the beginning. Steve Jobs said of failu(...)

‘This isn’t copyright reform. It’s copyright redefinition to benefit – surprise – corporations’
EU’s attempt at internet copyright reform is a ridiculous own goal

Wednesday was not a good day for the internet. In a morning vote in Brussels, the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) voted 14-9 to(...)

Microsoft is among the tech giants that could see their power curbed under the new rules. Photograph: PA Wire
EU Parliament committee votes for tougher EU copyright rules to rein in tech giants

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants could face more curbs on their market power after a European Parliament committee voted in favour of(...)

Davos: home to 3,000 delegates and journalists for four days. Photograph: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
Selfie protocol and staying on message in and away from the Davos spotlight

For global business and political leaders gathered for the 48th World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, the hassle of getting to Europe’s highes(...)

Jimmy Wales at TCD: “We need to pay journalists to continue to do something that often isn’t much fun because it is from local reporting that big stories often emerge.” Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Wikipedia co-founder embarks on mission to fix ‘broken’ media

“It is a really good time to own a construction company and be the brother-in-law of the mayor of a big city,” according to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy(...)

Jimmy Wales will appear at a public event in Trinity College Dublin on October 26th as part of Ireland’s Internet Day
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to tackle ‘fake news’ at Dublin event

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to visit Dublin late next month to discuss the fight against fake news and how evidence-based journalism can help to (...)

WikiTribune positions itself as the new wave of gatekeeping
Wikipedia founder aims to ‘fix the news’ with new site

The news is broken but we’ve figured out how to fix it, says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. Wales talks about the good old days of reportage wher(...)

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales: is launching a crowd-funded news service to help combat fake news.
Wikipedia founder to fight fake news with ‘Wikitribune’

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new online publication which will aim to fight fake news by pairing professional journalists (...)

A National Security Agency (NSA) data gathering facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. Wikimedia and other rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the agency challenging one of its mass surveillance programmes. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
Wikipedia group sues NSA over surveillance claims
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  • March 10, 2015, 22:11

The US National Security Agency (NSA) is being sued by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of its mass surveillance programmes, that they alleg(...)

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