When Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 and called the site, which carried only a few articles then, a free encyclopedia, not many people took him seriously. ...more

January 7, 2008

Executives with the online encyclopedia Wikipedia are trying to solve a mystery within their ranks: How did they promote a person to chief operating officer without knowing she has criminal records in three states, including incidents of theft, drunken driving and a shooting? ...more

December 19, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is relocating from the Tampa Bay area to the San Francisco area, primarily to be closer to the country's high-tech center. ...more

September 25, 2007