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Be wary of Wikipedia, say scientists
Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, contains errors in nine out of 10 of its health entries, and should be treated with caution, a study has said.
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The Era of Fake Knowledge: Why It’s Never Been Easier To Fake What You Know
"You can pop open a Wikipedia page and within a few minutes feign competence."
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Wikipedia Is Smoking Out Paid Editors
In 2012 Wikipedia endured a voluntary 24-hour blackout to advocate for a free and open Internet. It made a powerful statement, but probably the biggest accomplishment was simply reminding everyone of just how often they consult the site. And such a prominent source of information needs to be accurate.
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Salvin's Albatross
Found this on wikipedia's featured picture of the day. Check it out on their homepage!.
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This Robot Has Written More Wikipedia Articles Than Anyone Alive
You might think writing 10,000 articles per day would be impossible. But not for a Swede named Sverker Johansson. He created a computer program that has written a total of 2.7 million articles, making Johansson the most prolific author, by far, on the "internet's encyclopedia." His contributions account for 8.5 percent of the articles on Wikipedia, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Smerinthus cerisyi
Late afternoon moth sighting here in Western Massachusetts. Not nearly as large as yesterdays moth but just as beautiful. (From Wikipedia): The One-eyed Sphinx or Cerisy's Sphinx (Smerinthus cerisyi) is a moth of the Sphingidae family.
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Russia spotted editing Wikipedia page about downed Malaysia Airlines jet
A Twitter bot that keeps watch on Wikipedia pages edited by those inside the Russian government spotted major changes to an entry about yesterday's crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which killed all 298 people on board. The Telegraph reports that a Russian language page about Boeing 777 accidents that mentioned flight MH17 initially included language pointing to "terrorists" before being changed to "Ukrainian soldiers."
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Wikipedia blocks US Congress edits
Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following "persistent disruptive editing".
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I accidentally started a Wikipedia hoax
I jokingly edited an author's page five and a half years ago. Today, it's still there, and cited by numerous well-respected sources.
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Wiki wars: Wikipedia's inner battles
As WikiMania, the annual conference for the Wikipedia faithful, gets under way, there is bound to be much back-slapping over the successes of an encyclopaedia that has become, in the words of one devotee, "part of the assumed plumbing of society". But behind the scenes, or rather behind the screens, lies a world of incessant cyber-bickering, in which some editors of the site conduct "battles to the death for insanely low stakes" - as veteran contributor David Gerard puts it.
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Wikipedia swears to fight 'censorship' of 'right to be forgotten' ruling
Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales has revealed new details about what he describes as the site’s “censorship” under the EU’s “right to be forgotten” laws.
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Google Removes More Than 50 Links to Wikipedia Content
Wikipedia has revealed that more than 50 links to content on its website have been removed from Google's search results under the controversial Right to be Forgotten ruling. In response to this development, Wikipedia has created a dedicated page where it will be posting notices about attempts to remove links to the Wikimedia Foundation websites, which includes Wikipedia.
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Google makes us all dumber: The neuroscience of search engines
As search engines get better, we become lazier. We're hooked on easy answers and undervalue asking good questions
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The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia
What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together.
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Demon core - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The demon core was a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb; 1 st), 3.5-inch-diameter (89 mm) subcritical mass of plutonium which went briefly critical in two separate accidents at the Los Alamos laboratory in 1945 and 1946. Each incident resulted in the acute radiation poisoning and subsequent death of a scientist. After these incidents the spherical plutonium pit was referred to as the "demon core."
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Theban alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Theban alphabet is a writing system with unknown origins which first came into publication in the 16th century.
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A Wikipedia Editor Wants Users To Buy Him $6000 Worth Of French Cheese And Cameras
A Wikipedia editor wants to buy at least 200 of France’s estimated 500 types of cheese so they can be eaten, photographed and catalogued. Wikimedia France, a group of editors recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation as a chapter, not only want their readers to buy the cheeses, but also the photographic equipment needed to snap them. It’s nearly reached the $6000 it says it needs via crowdfunding site Kisskissbankbank.
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One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake
On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference. Maryana Pinchuk and Steven Walling addressed a packed room as they answered a question that has likely popped into the minds of even the most casual users of Wikipedia: who the hell edits the site, and why do they do it? Pinchuk and Walling conducted hundreds of interviews to find out. They learned that many serious contributors have an independent streak and...
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The NYPD is editing the Wikipedia pages of Eric Garner, Sean Bell
Edits to the Wikipedia entries of several high-profile police brutality cases, including those of Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, and Sean Bell, trace back to the headquarters of the New York Police Department, Capital New York reports this morning. The pages have been edited to cast the NYPD in a more favorable light and lessen allegations of police misconduct. The edits are currently the subject of an NYPD internal review.
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The Sexists at the Top of Wikipedia
By Mark Devlin
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