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Wikipedia on massive drive to increase Tamil content

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 00:34

Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia is on a massive drive to increase the content of Tamil on its site.

Wikipedia to add voice samples of famous people on site

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 16:49

Wikipedia has reportedly announced that it would soon be adding voice samples of popular personalities on their respective biographies on the site.

Wikipedia demands PR firm to stop paid editing services

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 22:28

Wikipedia has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a company called "Wiki-PR," which reportedly sells paid editing services on the well-known online encyclopedia, seeking to stop the service.

Wikipedia abandons efforts to combat hidden online `porn`

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 19:05

Wikimedia Foundation co-founder Jimmy Wales deleted a thousand images deemed inappropriate for children in April 2010, but the `wiki community` just restored 900 of them.

Hindu encyclopedia to be unveiled today

Last Updated: Monday, August 26, 2013, 13:12

In a milestone in Indian studies, the English edition of ‘Encyclopedia of Hinduism’, a product of 25 years of relentless academic efforts by nearly 1000 scholars, will be unveiled on Monday.

Apple appeals China Encyclopedia copyright court ruling

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 18:59

Sun Jianhong, the publishing house's attorney, said Wednesday he had seen the appellant petition filed by Apple, which had been forwarded to the appellant court on Tuesday.

Encyclopedia Britannica ends print, goes digital

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 09:32

It is the latest move Encyclopaedia Britannica has made to expand its Internet reference services and move farther into educational products.

Wikipedia gets $20 mn in annual fundraising drive

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 10:14

Wikipedia has raised $20 mn in its annual plea for donations to help expand and improve the Internet`s leading encyclopedia.

Wikipedia says it is losing contributors

Last Updated: Thursday, August 4, 2011, 22:24

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit its entries, says it is losing contributors.

Bhansali is encyclopedia of music, says Shreya Ghoshal

Last Updated: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 11:49

Noted playback singer Shreya Ghoshal says that filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an encyclopedia of music.

First volume of microbial encyclopedia published

Last Updated: Saturday, December 26, 2009, 18:00

The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (10 to the power 30) microbes in, on, around and under it, comprised of an unknown but very large number of distinct species.

`Encyclopedia of Life` grows

Last Updated: Monday, August 24, 2009, 13:35

An online encyclopaedia aiming to describe every type of animal and plant on the planet has reached 170,000 entries and is helping research into ageing, climate change and even the spread of insect pests.