Wikipedia

​In an effort to battle the scourge of fake news, a group of tech companies, academic institutions, non-profits and other organizations have allied to create the News Integrity Initiative, dedicated to helping people make better choices about the news they read and share online.

WikiGalaxy is engineering student Owen Cornec’s reimagining of how we view and consume information – specifically Wikipedia pages. The project takes each individual entry on the online encyclopedia and plots it as a star in a virtual galaxy, that you can navigate from the comfort of your sofa.

Wikipedia celebrates its tenth birthday on 15 January: it now features roughly 17 million articles in 270 languages, all created by a volunteer community, and is consulted by more than 400 million people every month.

In addition to the original English version, WikiReader users can now download any of 14 language versions of Wikipedia along with the virtual keyboards with characters to support them.

The Humane Reader is a $20 8-bit computer that contains an offline version of Wikipedia, for use in developing nations.

WikiReader is a handheld device for people who rely on the information housed at Wikipedia more often than they have access to the Internet.

The Wikimedia Foundation plans to add editable video content to its existing encyclopedia.