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Wikipedia this week created a new feature that allows readers of that online encyclopedia to create their own e-books with its content.

As the buzz around Mitt Romney’s upcoming running mate selection builds, some are looking to Wikipedia to find out who the pick will be. As Micah Sifry of TechPresident notes, tracking Wikipedia page edits in 2008 would have accurately predicted the VP selections: "Sarah Palin‘s Wikipedia page was updated at least 68 times the day before John McCain announced her selection, with another 54 changes made in the five previous days previous..."

Wikidata, the first new project to emerge from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006, is now beginning development. The organization, known best for its user-edited encyclopedia of knowledge Wikipedia, recently announced the new project at February's Semantic Tech & Business Conference in Berlin, describing Wikidata as new effort to provide a database of knowledge that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.

Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free online rival Wikipedia made an irony-free note of that fact.

The founder of Wikipedia has hailed the online encyclopedia's role in helping halt US legislation aimed at cracking down on Internet piracy.

January 18 is a date that will live in ignorance, as Wikipedia started a 24-hour blackout of its English-language articles, joining other sites in protesting pending U.S. legislation aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content.

The online encyclopaedia probes user accounts traced back to the Bell Pottinger, following allegations of content manipulation. Wikipedia has suspended at least 10 accounts linked to the public relations firm Bell Pottinger as it investigates allegations of content manipulation. The online encyclopaedia's founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC the lobbyists had "embarrassed their clients".

Mr. Houellebecq said his approach to literature, "muddling real documents and fiction, has been used by many authors," and that to describe such an act as plagiarism was "a skilled insult" and "ridiculous."

Wikipedia leadership in 'chaos' amid growing porn controversy, source tells FoxNews.com.