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Italy Wikipedia shuts down in EU protest
The pages go dark ahead of a vote on controversial new rules on website uploads and links.
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Wikipedia Added US Border 'Detention Centers' to Its List of Concentration Camps
Alongside Dachau and Japanese internment camps.
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Turkey marks one year without Wikipedia
Authorities said the ban was instituted when Wikipedia declined to take down content alleging that Turkey had provided support for terrorist groups. Since the ban, all language versions of the site have been inaccessible to Turkish IP addresses. A screen saying that the browser cannot make a secure connection to the server comes up when trying to reach the site.
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What Wikipedia can teach us about blockchain technology
The technology behind blockchain remains a mystery to many, but the it shares many common features with the popular online encyclopedia with which most web users are very familiar.
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YouTube Will Link To Wikipedia Below Conspiracy Theory Videos
"Information cues" — links to Wikipedia — will appear alongside videos about topics that have inspired significant debate, like the moon landing and chemtrails.
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Evolution Deniers Are Mad at Wikipedia for “Censoring” Intelligent Design
David Klinghoffer, a senior fellow at the Intelligent Design-promoting Discovery Institute, just announced its winner for the Censor of the Year award, given to the media outlet or publisher that refuses to acknowledge the other side of a story. This year’s winner? Wikipedia. Because apparently the article about Intelligent Design doesn’t treat the concept on par with evolution.
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Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
When Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales, an entrepreneur who cut his teeth linking to internet porn in the 90s, its stated objective was to "compile the sum of all human knowledge" and make it freely available to the world. Sixteen years later, the free encyclopedia and fifth most popular website in the world is well on its way to this goal. Today, Wikipedia is home to 43 million articles in 285 languages and all of these articles are written and edited by an autonomous group of international volunteers.
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The Troll Taunter
A young editor withstood a decade of online abuse. Now she’s fighting back — on Wikipedia itself. By Andrew McMillen.
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Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship
Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic. By Daniel Oberhaus.
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Federal Court Revives Wikimedia’s Challenge to N.S.A. Surveillance
A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a high-profile challenge to the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of internet communications as they enter or exit the United States. By Charlie Savage.
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Wikitribune venture will not address journalism's underlying issues
Jimmy Wales’s crowdfunded venture seems to intend to use practices already happening elsewhere
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Turkey blocks Wikipedia under law designed to protect national security
Turkey has blocked Wikipedia, the country’s telecommunications watchdog has said, citing a law that allows it to ban access to websites deemed obscene or a threat to national security. The move is likely to further worry rights groups and Turkey’s western allies, who say Ankara has curtailed freedom of speech and other basic rights in the crackdown that followed last year’s failed coup.
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Wikipedia founder to fight fake news with new Wikitribune site
Crowdfunded online publication from Jimmy Wales will pair paid journalists with army of volunteer contributors
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Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site
We've all heard anecdotes about trolling on Wikipedia and other social platforms, but rarely has anyone been able to quantify levels and origins of online abuse. That's about to change. Researchers with Alphabet tech incubator Jigsaw worked with Wikimedia Foundation to analyze 100,000 comments left on English-language Wikipedia. They found predictable patterns behind who will launch personal attacks and when.
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Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source
Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”. The move is highly unusual for the online encyclopaedia, which rarely puts in place a blanket ban on publications and which still allows links to sources such as Kremlin backed news organisation Russia Today, and Fox News, both of which have raised concern among editors.
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Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is donating $500,000 to help curb harassment on Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation announced Thursday that money from the Craig Newmark Foundation and Craigslist's Charitable Fund will go toward tools for Wikipedia's staff and volunteer editors to reduce harassment on the user-generated encyclopedia site. The Wikimedia Foundation says online harassment faced by Wikipedia contributors impedes their ability to write and edit the site's entries.
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Continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will ultimately lead to "Philosophy"
There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use more general terms. And here is a tool that confirms this claim - https://xefer.com/wikipedia
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Julian Assange confirms he is willing to travel to US after Manning decision
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he stands by his offer to travel to the US following Barack Obama’s decision to release whistleblower Chelsea Manning from prison. Speaking from the Ecuadorian embassy in London during a web broadcast on Thursday, Assange said there were many discussions about his future that could happen before Manning left prison in May, adding: “I have always been willing to go to the United States provided my rights are respected.”
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Wikipedia Announces The Most Edited Articles Of 2016
Wikipedia's most edited articles of 2016 range from the obvious to the outlandish.
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The slow and steady battle to close Wikipedia’s dangerous gender gap
As online information fractures into alternate realities, Wikipedia is fruitlessly trying to quash its gender biases.
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