Billionaire Elon Musk has offered Wikipedia $1 billion if it changes its name, NDTV reports. "I'll give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia," he said, adding that he would do so "in the interests of accuracy." A certain user called on Wikipedia...

A Chinese housewife spent 10 years writing a fictional history of Russia on Wikipedia. Moscow and Tver fought there for centuries over a non-existent mine in Kashin, Meduza reports. In China, one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of Wikipedia has been uncovered: an unknown woman for more than 10 years with ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was preparing for Christmas by studying his Wikipedia page. He did not agree with some of the information provided there, writes Business Insider. “Just looked at my Vicky for the first time in years. This is madness!" - Musk wrote in...

Computer hackers attacked an information page about Hillary Clinton in the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. This is reported by the New York Daily News. Unknown hackers published several photographs of naked women and also left a warning to vote for Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate. "By voting for Clinton...

The community of the Russian-speaking Wikipedia has blocked the account of the user Samal, who organized a meeting with representatives of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications (Roskomnadzor). The corresponding message was posted on the community Twitter account. User Samal, writes TJournal, has repeatedly advocated that Wikipedia should change its model ...

The Wikipedia article with the meanings of the word “Charas” has been excluded from the unified list of prohibited information of the Russian agency for supervision in the field of communications (Roskomnadzor). This was reported by one of the resource administrators Stanislav Kozlovsky, providing a scanned notification of the department. This was later confirmed by Roskomnadzor itself. “The decision of the Chernoyarsk court...

The Russian agency for supervision of consumer rights protection (Rospotrebnadzor) may block Wikipedia if it does not remove information about the preparation of narcotic substances. This was stated on Facebook by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor). Roskomnadzor appeals...

On the platform of the online encyclopedia “Wikipedia”, from June 26 to August 31, the competition “Sights of Ukraine: Crimea” will be held. The goal of the project is to increase the number of articles in the free encyclopedia about cultural and historical attractions of the Ukrainian peninsula. The organizers were the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the public organization “Wikimedia Ukraine”,…