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Danielle Keats Citron (Maryland) and Mary Anne Franks (Miami): Criminalizing Revenge Porn. From Technology Review, Tom Simonite on the decline of Wikipedia. Is Wikipedia for sale? Martin Robbins wonders. How much is Wikipedia worth? Rose Eveleth investigates. Going global: As connectivity balloons, so does Wikipedia’s diversity. Dariusz Jemielniak on why Wikipedia needs paid editing. Miles Klee on Wikipedia Zero: All the world's information, no Internet access needed. Joe Kloc on the death and life of great Internet cities. Top nine things you need to know about “listicles”: Steven Poole on the crucial facts about the internet phenomenon of written lists. John Herrman on how Internet chain letters took over the media. The Biggest Little Site in the World: What does Imgur, one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the web, want to be when it grows up? Television. Noreen Malone how Instagram's new feature shows how the Internet is embracing intimacy. The internet mystery that has the world baffled: For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world's finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolvable problems, but to what end? Welcome to the world of Cicada 3301. Jay Yarow on why Facebook is a fundamentally broken product that is collapsing under its own weight. David A. Banks on very serious populists: The point of online voting systems like Reddit is not to highlight the best content, but to build and maintain hegemony. Daniel D’Addario on why 2013 was the Internet’s worst year ever.