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The anatomy of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's chest area has been the talk of the month. But so have high-profile edits, hacked articles, and one particular newborn growing up.

News and notes Strategic planning update; English Wikipedia ArbCom election results

2016-12-22

Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results: WMF reflects, to some degree, on its past approaches to strategic planning

News and notes Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany

2016-07-04

News from Wikimania and the courts

News and notes Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted

2016-03-09

Controversy, change, and everything between.

In the media 15th anniversary news round-up

2016-01-20

Media discusses Wikipedia's fifteenth anniversary.

In the media Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE

2016-01-06

Wikipedia's science articles are "effectively incomprehensible"

In the media Wales in China; #Edit2015

2015-12-16

Jimmy Wales finds his words edited on the Internet.

Wikimanía report Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries

2015-07-22

WMF's Executive Director, Lila Tretikov, gave the opening plenary address.

In the media Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free

2015-07-22

Three novelists "have found a way to control the Wikipedia narrative" by using the annotation website Genius to annotate their own Wikipedia articles.

In the media Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

2015-05-20

Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.

News and notes One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; another awarded $1 million

2015-02-11

One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales awarded $1 million: Also: GLAM-Wiki Conference; Ombudsman Commission announced; Slovak Wikipedia now has 200,000 articles

In the media Wales on GamerGate

2014-12-24

"I want you and others to understand that threatening people is not helpful."

In the media Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders

2014-12-17

Wales under fire for $500k prize from UAE.

Special report Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness

2013-08-14

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and its public face to most of the media, has declared that media organizations are missing out on the "opportunity of the century" by not conducting true investigative reporting into American surveillance practices, a debate kindled by information leaked by Edward Snowden.

In the media Wikipedia flamewars

2013-07-24

The Washington Post reported Tuesday on the most controversial articles on various language Wikipedias as determined by a cross-continental research group.

WikiProject report Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales

2013-07-10

This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.

In the media Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing

2013-07-03

Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.

In the media Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden

2013-06-26

The Daily Dot has examined the perennial controversy over explicit or pornographic media on Commons. This latest salvo was touched off when Russavia uploaded a portrait of Jimmy Wales made by the artist Pricasso, who paints with his genitalia.

In the media Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?

2012-12-31

Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?: The Telegraph and Daily Dot, among others, have alleged that there are multiple links between the WMF, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and Kazakhstan's government, which is, for all intents and purposes, a one-party non-democratic state.

Paid editing Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales

2012-10-01

Does Wikipedia Pay? is a Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues by speaking openly with the people involved. This week, a scandal centering around Roger Bamkin's work with Wikimedia UK and Gibraltarpedia erupted ... In light of these events, opinions on how to avoid future controversy are as important as ever. ... The Signpost spoke with Jimmy Wales to better understand how he views the paid editing environment and what he thinks is needed to improve it.

In the media Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal

2012-09-10

Philip Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, wrote an open letter in the New Yorker addressed to Wikipedia this week, alleging severe inaccuracies in the article on his The Human Stain (2000).

In the news Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias

2012-06-25

Special report Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication

2012-05-14

In the news Britannica runs out of print as Jimmy Wales anointed UK transparency tsar

2012-03-12

In focus Skirmishes in the 'great sectarian war of the Internet'

2012-02-13

Arbitration report Three open cases, one set for acceptance, arbitrators formally appointed by Jimmy Wales

2011-12-26

In the news The Economist assays the encyclopaedia's challenges, Jimbo speaks on net future, and an inclusionist alternative emerges.

2011-11-07