Frager, Ray (8 January 2016). "Court rules that monkey whose selfie went viral doesn't own rights to photo". FoxSports.com. Retrieved 9 January 2016. Wikipedia, one of those who put up the photo, argued it didn't have to take down the picture because Slater, having not actually shot the photo, didn't own the rights
Kleinman, Zoe (15 January 2016). "George W Bush tops Wikipedia 15th birthday list". BBC. Retrieved 15 January 2016. George Bush is the most edited Wikipedia entry after 15 years with almost 46,000 edits
"Wikipedia blocks Swiss officials over editing". swissinfo.ch. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016. federal staff have edited more than 5,500 articles on Wikipedia since 2003 – 1,500 in the past five years – mostly concerning the Swiss air force, the Swiss intelligence service and asylum issues.
"CA defends use of Wikipedia in decision vs mining firm". rappler.com. 6 March 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016. The Court of Appeals (CA) defended its use of online sources, particularly Wikipedia, in relation to its ruling on one of the worst mining disasters in the Philippines.
"Alliance Virtual Offices Calls for Wikipedia Definition Overhaul". Officing Today. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016. "Why not join us?" he adds. "We've already gotten the Wikipedia page [virtual office] partially re-written (but not public yet), and we're trying our darnedest to be neutral.
Lafrance, Adrienne (16 March 2016). "Wikipedia and the Momentum of Tiny Edits". The Atlantic. Retrieved 18 March 2016. Several hundred million revisions or contributions don't fall together as a high-quality encyclopedia just by accident.
Lafrance, Adrienne (11 May 2016). "The Internet's Favorite Website". The Atlantic. Retrieved 17 May 2016. Wikipedia reaches almost one-third of the total mobile population each month
Thonemann, Peter (25 May 2016). "The all-conquering Wikipedia?". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 28 May 2016. Not the least of Wikipedia's wonders is to have done away with the drudgery that used to be synonymous with the writing of reference works. An army of anonymous, tech-savvy people – mostly young, mostly men – have effortlessly assembled and organized a body of knowledge unparalleled in human history.
Friedman, Uri (21 June 2016). "The Lopsided Geography of Wikipedia". The Atlantic. Retrieved 6 September 2016. More Wikipedia edits originate in Hong Kong than in all of Africa combined.
Schlosser, Kurt (24 June 2016). "Seattle-based project to make librarians Wikipedia stars wins $250K in Knight News Challenge". GeekWire. Retrieved 6 September 2016. The Seattle office of the Online Computer Library Center has been awarded $250,000 as one of the winners of the Knight News Challenge on Libraries for a project aimed at making library resources more accessible to Wikipedia editors.
Kiberd, Roisin (2016-07-08). "Twenty Years Ago, Trolling Was Repeatedly Posting 'Meow' in Usenet Groups". Vice. Retrieved 2017-10-29. This would all justify remembering the Meow Wars today, but its page was wiped from Wikipedia after being nominated for deletion several times. The argument is made, fairly, that there are no objective sources: There is no "One True History of Meow" because everyone involved was a likely a troll. The debate directly questions the value of archiving online history, and even of writing–like this column–which examines internet culture. Several Wikipedians argued to preserve it: "This isn't just another flamewar," one member wrote. "This is the flamewar."
Lopez, Napier (28 July 2016). "Wikipedia is pivoting into news with its redesigned Android app". thenextweb.com. Retrieved 7 September 2016. It's a neat way to make actually exploring Wikipedia more fun and relevant to every day life, rather than just stumbling upon articles you're curious about on your own.
McCormick, Rich (17 August 2016). "Wikiverse lets you explore Wikipedia like a human spaceship". The Verge. Retrieved 5 September 2016. It's an abstract reinvention of Wikipedia's knowledge banks, but it's surprisingly useful to couch the site's billions of articles in a more visual form
Snyder, Bill (August 22, 2016). "For Wikipedia's Army of Volunteer Editors, Content Begets Content". Stanford Business. Retrieved August 25, 2016. Edits to articles act like magnets to attract other editors, and the edits performed by the new editors attract even more edits, and so on.
Paulas, Rick (August 24, 2016). "Can librarians fix Wikipedia's gender gap?". The Week. Retrieved August 25, 2016. If Wikipedia is meant to be "the sum of the world's knowledge," it should be written and edited by a diverse set of voices. The quickest path toward that is the most obvious: finding more women and minority Wikipedia editors.
Blakemore, Erin (30 September 2016). "Wikipedia Wants You to Improve Its Coverage of Indigenous Peoples". smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 2 October 2016. Wikipedia includes so little content about indigenous peoples that the foundation that runs the encyclopedia is inviting people to help improve its coverage.
McClurg, Lesley (8 November 2016). "Should I Trust Wikipedia With My Health?". NPR. Retrieved 8 November 2016. Part of that quest was creating the WikiProject Medicine group, where 320 like-minded editors work on the site's health content. Heilman estimates about half are medical professionals.
Cetinski, Danielle (17 November 2016). "Jumping the gun: Wikipedia calls byelection for Phil Donato". Central Western Daily. Retrieved 18 November 2016. NEVER mind the fact the NSW Electoral Commission has yet to declare a winner, Wikipedia had the Orange byelection signed, sealed and delivered to Phil Donato on Thursday. Wikipedia's page for the Orange electorate, which can be updated by the general public, had the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers candidate listed as the incumbent and "the party's first lower house seat at the 2016 Orange byelection".
Pearl, Mike (25 November 2016). "A Wikipedian Explains How Wikipedia Stays Reliable in the Fake News Era". Vice.com. Retrieved 10 December 2016. Wikipedia won't often steer you wrong even on controversial subjects. You should obviously approach politics on Wikipedia with skepticism, but sections on touchy topics like Donald Trump's White House transition, or Hillary Clinton's health are refreshingly devoid of conspiracy theories and hasty conclusions.
Thompson, Rachel (8 December 2016). "The Wikipedia gap is the gender gap you might not know about". Mashable. Retrieved 10 December 2016. According to the BBC, only 17 percent of the English-language Wikipedia biographies were about women and just 15 percent of Wikipedia's volunteer editors are female.
Eggert, Nalina; Buckley, Sarah; McDermott, Josephine; Taylor-Coleman, Jasmine; Low, Harry (8 December 2016). "As it happened: Wikipedia edit-a-thon". BBC. Retrieved 10 December 2016. Highest number of entries about women added to Wikipedia in a single event, with more than 400 new or updated profiles
Bates, Laura (9 December 2016). "Where are all the women, Wikipedia?". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2016. The gamechanging inventor Margaret E Knight is summed up in only 500 words on the site, where men make up 83% of notable profiles – and most of the editors too