Wikipedia founder seeks more quality
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The founder of Wikipedia on Friday urged contributors to the free Internet encyclopedia to put more emphasis on quality instead of quantity.
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They say if you can make it in New  York you can make it anywhere. But these days, it seems you  haven't really made it unless you have that most prized of  status symbols -- your very own page on Wikipedia.
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(InfoWorld) - Wikia Inc. plans to offer a free online application hosting service in the near future, but has no idea how it will make money from it. The company will launch openserving.com with one hosted application, an open-source content-management platform that it acquired when it bought sports fan-site ArmchairGM LLC last week. Set up by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in 2004, Wikia's goal is to encourage the sharing of information. It hosts Web sites for free, using wiki software to allow its customers and their readers to freely edit the sites. Wikia asks its customers to share their content under a variety of Creative Commons or GNU licenses. "Open source was the beginning. Free culture is what's happening next," Wikia Chief Executive Officer Gil Penchina said Monday, announcing the company's plans at a conference in Paris on the future of social media, Le Web 3. Openserving.com will go further than Wikia's current services, by giving away hosting services and bandwidth, in addition to allowing site creators to keep the advertising revenue generated by the site. "If we give away the bandwidth and the storage, and we get none of the advertising revenue, what's the business model? Well, I don't know yet," Penchina said. The software acquired with ArmchairGM will allow Openserving.com customers to create collaborative publishing sites, combining elements of blogs and wikis. Penchina called for volunteers to help install and maintain other open-source applications on the site. Wikia received a total of $4 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network and individual investors including Marc Andreessen and Mitch Kapor earlier this year, and last week received a second round of investment from Amazon.com Inc. The companies did not disclose the amount of Amazon's investment.
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Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikia, launched a new project to address what he says are the shortcomings of current search engines. But one analyst said he isn't so sure Wales' efforts do much to improve the current model.
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A Web blockbuster is evolving to try to stay ahead of rivals.
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Google is building its own version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which consistently ranks among the most visited websites in the world.
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Controversy erupts at internet site Wikipedia as one of its editors is found to have falsified academic credentials.
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Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching an Internet search engine based on the same voluntary collaboration that drives the online encyclopedia.
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Wired News readers are getting a chance to shape the news: For an article about wiki collaboration software, anyone may contribute using, what else?, a wiki.
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University students are working on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia as part of their degree course.
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Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive of the world's largest search engine, needs to update his profile on company Web site.
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The folks behind the open-source reference site that's challenging the encyclopedia industry decide to give journalism a go. Through the experimental Wikinews site, anyone can take a stab at being a reporter. By Joanna Glasner.
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Shi Zhao slides the computer mouse,  making rapid-fire clicks and in the space of a minute or so  finds about a dozen minor errors to be tweaked on Wikipedia,  the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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Blog: RoboCup's use of Wikipedia for results leave some wondering who the winners are
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InfoWorld - Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this Google-dominated market.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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Don't like your Wikipedia entry? Mr. Know-It-All offers advice on how to set the record straight. By Clive Thompson from Wired magazine.