It's not unusual to see mobile operators offering plans that include unmetered access to social networking sites such as Facebook. More constructively, Orange will waive data charges for Wikipedia access by its customers in Africa and the Middle East.

A growing number of web sites are planning online protests this month against the SOPA and PIPA legislation being introduced to the US House of Representatives and Senate. Wikipedia is the latest big-name site to join the cause.

The Brin Wojcicki Foundation has funded the Wikimedia Foundation to the tune of $US500,000.

The Alfred P Sloan Foundation has made a second $US3 million grant of $3 million to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia.

Wikipedia’s “users and contributors” around the world are celebrating and marking “the project’s first decade” which will officially arrive on January 15, 2011.

Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update, but there's no mention of AirPrint support. There's also a security update for Mac OS X 10.5.8.

The new lineup of the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees was announced at the Wikimania conference this week.

NICTA has spun-off another piece of its intellectual property into a start-up company, Cohesive Data, that will initially offer its technology to US mobile carriers.

The appointment of Bishakha Datta has filled the one remaining vacancy on Wikimedia's board of trustees.

After many years, the Wikipedia website will finally be going Hollywood and getting a facelift for a “more updated look and feel”, a new editing toolbar, improvements to the wiki code and other changes.