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Petersburg, Fla. June 29, 2007.This article was updated on May 17, 2010.A shakeup is underway at the top levels of Wikipedia, FoxNews.com has learned, as administrators try to deal with the growing controversy surrounding pornographic images that appear on the online encyclopedia and its associated websites.After much pressure from within the Wikipedia community, co-founder Jimmy Wales has relinquished his top-level control over the encyclopedia's content, as well as all of its parent company's projects.Though he remains the chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wales is no longer able to delete files, remove administrators, assign projects or edit any content, sources say. Essentially, they say, he has gone from having free reign over the content and people involved in the websites to having the same capabilities of a low-level administrator. (See editor's note, at the concl...The world's biggest websites are calling for a day of dramatic action Wednesday against a piracy-prevention lawsuit that many fear will reshape the Internet as we no...
Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The planned shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer edito...
The lights have come back on at Wikipedia, following a 24-hour blackout that affected millions of users around the world.At midnight Wednesday ET, Wikipedia's Englis...
Wikipedia has imposed a 24-hour blackout on its English language website, a move that has impacted millions of global users, but some savvy web surfers are already f...
Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day?The user-driven online encyclopedia is one of the Internet's most visited sites, and at midnight Eastern Standard Time...
The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to swee...
The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to swee...
Websites launch defiant protest
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Five days before a critical vote, senators are abandoning an anti-piracy bill they had supported after an outpouring of online opposition to tinkering with Internet ...
Federal prosecutors have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, on charges of violating piracy laws -- a day after a 24-hour blacko...
AP Photo/Chris O'MearaJimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, answers a question during an interview in St. Petersburg, Fla. June 29, 2007.Despite efforts by Wikipedia's ...
AP Photo/Chris O'MearaJimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, answers a question during an interview in St. Petersburg, Fla. June 29, 2007.The parent company of the onlin...
Lane Hartwell on behalf of the Wikimedia FoundationErik Möller, Wikimedia's Foundation Deputy Director, says of pedophilia: “What is my position on pedophilia, then?...
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