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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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Startup Catalog has jammed all 16GB of Wikipedia's text onto DNA strands
Biological molecules will last a lot longer than the latest computer storage technology, Catalog believes.
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The Great Firewall of China blocks off Wikipedia
And it's not because of students cheating on research papers.
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13 Wikipedia Articles On Doomsday Cults That Will Weird You Out
The Order is a secret society that failed to stay very secret after a series of horrific murders and mass suicides during the ’90s in Canada, France, and Switzerland thrust them into the spotlight. They believed that death was an illusion and that they'd be transported to a planet near the star Sirius post-illusion. In 1994, 23 members in Switzerland were found in an underground chapel in ceremonial robes, most shot. Twenty-five members were found in ski chalets with children grouped together. Sixteen bodies were found in the Vercors mountains in France, arranged in a star shape.
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Wikipedia’s Refusal to Profile a Black Female Scientist Shows Its Diversity Problem
The site has acknowledged its systemic bias before. By Claire L. Jarvis.
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Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia
Steven Pruitt has made nearly 3 million edits on Wikipedia and written 35,000 original articles -- all for free
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Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools
Google is pouring an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade to more than $7.5 million, the company announced at the World Economic Forum Tuesday. A little over a third of those funds will go toward sustaining current efforts at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, and the remaining $2 million will focus on long-term viability through the organization’s endowment.
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Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools
When the tech giant helps Wikipedia, it’s also helping itself.
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Wikipedia Editors: Breitbart 'Should Not Be Used, Ever' as a Reference for Facts
Wikipedia editors voted to ban Breitbart as a source of fact in it articles. The consensus, reached late last month, agreed that the outlet “should not be used, ever, as a reference for facts, due to its unreliability.” Wikipedia editors also decided that InfoWars is a “conspiracy theorist and fake news website,” and that the “use of InfoWars as a reference should be generally prohibited. Breitbart, a far-right conservative media website, has come under scrutiny—such as when it vehemently supported Alabama politician and alleged pedophile...
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Amazon donates $1M to Wikimedia
Back in March, we asked the question “Are corporations that use Wikipedia giving back?” The answer was kind of, sort of, with one key exception, noting, “Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google all contributed around $50,000 by matching employee gifts.
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Wikipedia seeks photos of 20 million artifacts lost in Brazilian museum fire
Wikipedia is fighting to preserve the memories of the 20 million artifacts lost in Sunday's Brazilian museum fire. The Museu Nacional in Rio -- one of the largest museums in the Americas -- was consumed by fire and irreplaceable objects like the oldest human fossil found in Brazil and a 5.5-ton meteorite found in 1784 are believed to have been lost.
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