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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.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...
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the success of the self-edited encyclopedia.
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Wikipedia has turned down a more or less free offer for software that would keep minors and unsuspecting web surfers from stumbling upon graphic images of sex organs...
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Wikipedia on Tuesday shut down its Russian-language site ( ru.wikipedia.org ) for 24 hours to protest a bill that would give the Russian government sweeping powers t...
Rising Republican star Mia Love's Wikipedia page was vandalized overnight with racist and sexist epithets. The attack comes as Democrats and liberal media outlets cr...
A FoxNews.com investigation into allegations of child pornography on online encyclopedia Wikipedia -- allegations that came from co-founder Larry Sanger himself -- l...
Children using Wikipedia for research can still stumble on the vast repository of pornographic images and videos that are the encyclopedia's most popular items, warn...
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...
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?...
Since September 29, 2012, I've received 98 emails from President Obama and his political action groups (Organizing for Action, MoveOn).These emails are always highly...
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New search engine respects your privacy
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