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Pakistan blocks Wikipedia for seven hours

More coverage of Britannica and Nature

Nature has published an editorial, titled "Britannica attacks... and we respond.", commenting on last week's dispute between Encyclopædia Britannica and Nature over the accuracy of their December comparison of Britannica and Wikipedia. The debate continued to receive some coverage in the media:

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Wikia finds investors

Wikia (formerly Wikicities), a for-profit company founded by Jimbo Wales and Angela Beesley but completely separate from Wikipedia, has acquired over $4 million in venture capital from various investors. See "Wikipedia founder goes commercial", MarketWatch.