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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...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...
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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?...
It's a wiki world out there.The small town of Monmouth in Wales (population: 8,807, according to Wikipedia) will become the world's first "Wikipedia town" on Saturda...
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