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A top Wikipedia editor has been arrested in Belarus
The editor had been doxxed prior to the arrest
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The war over Chinese Wikipedia is a warning for the open internet
How Wikipedia volunteers are battling censorship, threats, arrest, and violence—and exposing growing threats to the movement’s free-knowledge mission.
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Facebook and Twitter ‘should use volunteer moderators’ says Wikipedia founder
Jimmy Wales says social media companies should follow the digital encyclopedia’s approach
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How one woman took on Wikipedia's Nazi fancruft
Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.
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One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.
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Wikipedia co-founder says site is now ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment’
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has warned that the website can no longer be trusted — insisting it is now just “propaganda” for the left-leaning “establishment.”
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Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia
Larry Sanger, the man who co-founded Wikipedia, has cautioned that the website can’t always be trusted to give people the truth. He said it can give a “reliably establishment point of view on pretty much everything.”
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Wikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate?
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit that owns Wikipedia and other volunteer-written websites, is about to reach its 10-year goal of creating a $100 million endowment five years earlier than it planned. Its total funds, which have risen by about $200 million over the past five years, now stand at around $300 million.
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Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up
The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that—and possibly itself, too.
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Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher
Lying drunk in a field outside the Austrian city of Innsbruck in 1971, inspiration struck Douglas Adams, a science-fiction writer. He looked at his copy of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe”, and then up at the stars, and came up with the idea for a “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. It would be a (fictional) mixture of travel book and encyclopedia, but with an absurd-seeming twist: instead of being written by experts, anyone could contribute.
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Copyright Trolling/SEO Scam, Changing The Photo Credits On Wikimedia Commons
Want to know yet another reason why the CASE Act is so dangerous? It will inspire ever more new attempts at fraud in the copyright trolling space. Giving people the ability to shake down others leads to... lots of attempts to shake down or scam...
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Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page Is Being Edited
In recent presidential cycles, the velocity of edits made to a Wikipedia page have correlated with the choice of vice presidential running mate.
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Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source
The move offered a new model for moderation. Maybe other platforms will take note.
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Endless palimpsest: Wikipedia and the future’s historian
In spite of the project being very new, the number and variety of its authors and the ambivalence of academia towards it, Wikipedians have created an encyclopedia that upholds high standards of scholarship and encyclopedism.
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The World's Second Largest Wikipedia Is Written Almost Entirely by One Bot
'Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.'
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Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.
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Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
Today, on Wikipedia’s 19th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation has received reports that access to Wikipedia in Turkey is actively being restored.
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Court rules Turkey Wikipedia ban violates rights
Turkey’s highest court on Thursday ruled that the country's ban on the Wikipedia website violates freedom of expression,
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The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable
Wikipedia is the arbiter of truth on the internet. It's what settles arguments at bars. It supplies answers for the information snippets you see on your Google or Bing search results. It's the first stop for nearly everyone doing online research.
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Wikipedia Has Been A Safe Haven From The Online Culture Wars. That Time May Be Over.
The once-derided open-source encyclopedia is the closest thing the internet has to an oasis of truth. Now a single-user ban has exposed the deep rifts between Wikipedia's libertarian origins and its egalitarian aspirations, and threatened that stability.
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