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Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2024, sorted chronologically. Per WP:PRESS, this page excludes coverage exclusively on a single WP-article, coverage of (some aspect of) the project overall is wanted.
It's not surprising that Oxman wouldn't credit Wikipedia in her doctoral dissertation: While Wikipedia is generally accurate, anyone can edit it, so teachers regularly tell their students that they should not cite the website as an authority.
In one case, key details were removed about the Iranian regime's mass executions. The fact that current senior officials in the regime were involved in the 1988 death commissions, in which thousands of political prisoners were killed, was also deleted.
Is this plagiarism?" Mr Ackman asked on X. "Let's assume that in writing her dissertation Neri used Wikipedia as a dictionary for these terms and it is deemed to be plagiarism, does it any way affect the quality and originality of the research in her dissertation? I think that's worth an important discussion among the experts.
Collaboration is not a safeguard of quality per se, however. Rather, the quality of Wikipedia articles rises with the number of editors per article as well as a greater diversity among them. Here, we address a not yet documented potential threat to those preconditions: self-selection of Wikipedia editors to articles.
At the top of each page on the Arabic-language version of Wikipedia is a black banner showing the Wikipedia globe logo enveloped with a Palestinian flag and a keffiyeh. Next to the icon is a note accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. This banner appears on every page on Arabic Wikipedia, even today's featured article, one for the prehistoric reptile deinosuchus.
These rather blatant pro-Palestinian pages appear to stand in contrast to Wikipedia's own declared standards of covering events from a "neutral point of view," which emphasizes "representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views" on a topic.
Russia has said it was not yet planning to block Wikipedia - one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian courts, however, have handed the online encyclopaedia a series of fines over Ukraine-related content since.
It appears the 'wiki' part of its name lives up to its promise, as users usually track down the information they're searching for within a few clicks, despite the website having more than 62million articles in more than 300 languages.
Furthermore, the "Electronic Academy" department`s direct involvement and initiative resulted in the generation of 471 articles on Wikipedia, including 258 in Azerbaijani, 69 in English, 72 in Turkish, 53 in Russian, 8 in Persian, 10 in German, and 1 in Uzbek.
The scenario of Iran's regime utilizing Wikipedia as a battleground for narrative control highlights the necessity for individuals to approach online information, particularly on sensitive topics like Iranian politics, with a discerning mindset. Navigating the vast sea of data demands meticulous fact-checking, logical analysis, and an appreciation of historical contexts.
Within the academy, it's considered a bit lazy for a scholar to cite any encyclopedias, including Wikipedia, which are considered to be indirect, tertiary sources rather than direct sources of information. "An academic probably shouldn't be citing Encyclopedia Britannica either," said Blum.
The problem extends beyond Iranian politics. Similar occurrences involving China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia infiltrating Wikipedia have been documented.
The articles, some of which have versions in English as well, are written in a manner that in no way can be considered unbiased, with some presenting unconfirmed reports or even blatant lies as facts.
A government campaign to replace Wikipedia Russia with a more pliant alternative seems near completion.
The current Russian-language Wikipedia has about 12,000 regular editors, and many of them live outside of Russia and tend towards having opposition views. Russia's register of banned sites already includes more than 120 Wikipedia articles, mostly to do with the war in Ukraine. If Ruwiki or another pro-Kremlin project can prove its worth, we can expect the original Wikipedia to be banned.
So these are officially the UK unis that are the most popular, according to Wikipedia views:
But the challenge lies in the constant upkeep of Wikipedia articles. They require regular updates, clarifications, and error corrections. In Russian Wikipedia alone, around 700,000 corrections are made to 330,000 articles each month, with approximately 7,000 new articles created monthly. It's a substantial undertaking.
Many people in Iran and abroad read Persian Wikipedia, and many from different countries refer to English Wikipedia. Few understand how much of what they read, all of which has the illusion of verifiability, is biased or fake.
Dr. Butz assigned students to contribute to "Wiki Project Women Scientists" or "Underrepresentation of Science and Women in Africa", two projects that aim to correct the gender bias on Wikipedia. The requirement was to write an article about a woman scientist who does not have a Wiki page.
I'm not sure there is an answer to life, the universe and everything. But when someone figures it out, I'll know where to find it — and you can bet there'll be footnotes.
It is impossible to know whether these were done by MSPs or their staff, which could breach a Wikipedia ban on people or employees editing pages about themselves.
According to the presidential aide, 99% of the articles on Wikipedia are "absolutely neutral and even interesting," hence they could be used for a Russian analog. ... Medinsky called the remaining 1% of articles "enemy slander," which are "severely moderated." "You'll never get a word of truth in there," he added.
The problem here is that with millions of articles on any given topic, the majority of people are likely to read smaller articles as fact regardless of any increased bias or lack of impartiality.
The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group has also collaborated with Mr. Macaroni, a multi-award-winning Nigerian comic skit maker and actor with millions of followers on various social media, to produce a short comic skit to promote the Yoruba language on Wikipedia. The skit was viewed by millions of Nigerians. These efforts, among others, have helped to increase the traffic and readership level of Yoruba Wikipedia.
"I'm happy when I can take a look at a piece of history and find out someone has praised the entry or even added something. That's what makes me happy," Kadnerova said. "A friend of mine once told me I wasn't doing enough for mankind. So I finally am," she added.
From 2015 to February 2024, BTS has dominated at #1 with 90.5 million views as the most-viewed group and K-pop act overall, while Kim Taehyung, aka V, ranks as the most popular solo artist at #3 with 42.5 million views.
While Wikipedia's traffic didn't shift significantly during ChatGPT's meteoric rise, the site has seen a general decline in visitors over the last decade as a result of Google's ongoing search updates and generational changes in online behavior.
Martin Wilson, head of content at T&F, added: "Wikipedia is the first port of call for so many of us when we want to find out about a new topic and Wikipedia editors do an amazing job helping to keep it as accurate and up to date as possible. We hope this extended partnership with The Wikipedia Library will make Taylor & Francis Online an even more useful resource for supporting that work."
Wikipedia's source guidelines now provide this striking table that sums up the site's view on CNET: that it was reliable until it was acquired by Red Ventures, unreliable for the period it was caught using AI, and that since 2020 it's suffered a "deterioration in editorial standards."
As of this writing, Wikipedia's Perennial Sources list currently features three entries for CNET broken into three time periods:
Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean you can write whatever you want. For one, a subject has to be notable. Your grandma's "famous" cookie recipe can't have an article unless it's actually famous. The site isn't a place for personal opinions, either.
Considering that CNET has been in the business since 1994 and maintained a top-tier reputation on Wikipedia up until late 2020, this change came after lots of debate between Wikipedia's editors and has drawn the attention of many in the media, including some CNET staff members.
The banner, which is featured on every Arabic-language Wikipedia page, reads: "In solidarity with the right of the Palestinian people, no to genocide in Gaza, no to killing civilians. No to targeting hospitals and schools. No to deception and double standards. Stop the war and spread a just and comprehensive peace."
A UK academic who has completed a project creating a Wikipedia page for a woman in every country in the world is calling for more women to contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia.
The article provides a detailed view of the gender gap on Wikipedia and it stresses the importance of addressing this problem to guarantee a more equal and diverse platform.
A recent paper from Oxford Internet Institution researchers specified that while incumbents' Wikipedia pages are more likely to receive higher traffic volumes during an election, pageviews for challengers are significantly more predictive of success — especially for candidates that voters perceive as "viable."
In response to the historic underrepresentation of women in Wikipedia articles, the Stanley Museum of Art will host a virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon throughout March.
Since 2021, India has seen a steady growth rate of 13 per cent in content related to women on Wikimedia projects because of the efforts of individual contributors as well as collective initiatives.
As women have been left out of historical narratives and traditional sources of knowledge, the issue is further reflected on Wikipedia, where women remain significantly underrepresented.
"We, therefore, urge everyone to join us and play their parts in ensuring that we begin to see more women in the world's largest encyclopedia," added Olushola Olaniyan, President, Wikimedia Nigeria User Group.
Wikipedia depends on the availability of existing published sources to verify the facts in its articles. But in many places around the world, women have been left out of historical narratives and traditional sources of knowledge.
The dictionary definition of heroism does not usually extend to people who work away anonymously, and for no money, for the reputational benefit of others. But this is what growing numbers of largely female researchers have been doing, in an attempt to rebalance the historical record on Wikipedia in favour of women.
"It is inspiring to see the progress made across the African continent to improve gender equity on Wikipedia and beyond," said Masana Mulaudzi, Senior Manager of Campaign Organizing at the Wikimedia Foundation.
The source of the conflict lies in a debate over the "deadnames" – or morinoms in French – of trans people. Should these names that are no longer in use, such as birthnames, be mentioned on Wikipedia? If so, in which cases and under what conditions?
Who is the party leader? This was one of the most confusing questions to answer for contributors to Wikipedia's page.
Wikimedia Nigeria is organising the WikiGap Nigeria Online Challenge, which is open to the public, to create new articles for notable women and improve existing articles about women on Wikipedia, with a focus on English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Tyap Wikipedias.
Romany Craig, professional librarian at the university, shared how she got the idea to hold this workshop by reading about the Wikipedia edit-a-thon which involved individuals coming together to edit around a theme making information more accurate.
All it takes is a free account. You can also contribute anonymously. Write about anything, including important women of Southern Africa and their world contributions.
The articles biased against Israel are mostly closed to editing, and it is impossible for an individual to change them without having made 500 edits, which leaves many Israelis unable to edit articles about which they have great knowledge.
The WJC report recommended corrective measures to re-establish the neutrality of Wikipedia, authored by Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir, Ph.D., senior fellow researcher at Bar Ilan University and the University of Haifa.
Types of bias the report identifies include delegitimizing terminology, lack of context, omission of significant details, one-sided sources, emphasizing negative examples and linking to pages like "genocide."
The report claims that English Wikipedia has an anti-Israel bias that spreads disinformation and perpetuates negative stereotypes of Jews and Israelis.
"By the internet's standards, it's a very high-quality source of text and sources of facts about the world," he said, adding that it's the reason researchers give "extra weight" to data from Wikipedia when training language models even though the website makes up a small part of the internet.
"Recently a Tulu article of mine related to Karnataka coastal belt's Siri Aradhane (Siri cult of worship) went to English from where it travelled to the German language," Badikana pointed out. He has written 113 articles for both Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia from December 1, 2023 alone in addition to a number of articles written earlier.
Wikipedia catalogs the edits made to every page. Supervisors running for election, including Connie Chan, Preston and Aaron Peskin — who is contemplating a run for mayor — have seen an uptick in the number and scale of edits made to their pages in recent months.
Wikimedia communities in Africa, and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, are some of the fastest-growing around the world. Although people living in Africa remain underrepresented among Wikimedia contributors, a 2020 report found that new contributors to Wikimedia projects are three times more likely to come from Africa than other regions.
"We learned that a lot depends on the teacher. If teachers trust Wikipedia and tell students about its dangers and shortcomings, it reflects in the students' activities," Remmik pointed out.
"If you know how to navigate the site, Wikipedia is a uniquely transparent knowledge-sharing platform," Perkins said. "So students get to see how the articles are developed in ways that are typically black-boxed in academia's peer-review process or in what happens in the office of news media organizations.
Most often, the Ruwiki pages are substantially shorter than their Wikipedia counterparts; the sexual and plagiarism scandals of Russian representatives, for instance, are often excised.
By the end of the event, the MDI ultimately championed feminist rage as a tool for activism and achieved its goal of closing gender gaps by recruiting 25 new Wikipedia editors.
The article quotes an expert on Wikipedia who says some of them may have never wanted an entry to be made but someone did and now they have to try to get control of the message.
But as is the case in Israeli politics, nothing is that simple in Wikipedia's politics, certainly not in Hebrew Wikipedia when it comes to Netanyahu.
Multiple on-campus organizations and undergraduate students put their heads together to expand accessible knowledge on Wikipedia of six underrepresented Black artists last Friday.
Much of the free information available on Wikipedia has succumbed to such sensationalist news and recentism. More and more editors take on particular causes that they proudly display on their user pages using current events and sources to promote that cause.
Although Wikipedia may have gone woke, it is probably not in the pocket of intelligence agencies. Still, it would be naive to imagine that the bosses at the Wikimedia Foundation aren't at least trying to use Wikipedia as a tool to propagate their social-justice agenda.
Last week, the Minister of Digital Development, Maksut Shadaev, said that Russia does not yet intend to block Wikipedia. But that the calls for a shutdown have increased, while a lot of investment is being made in the Russian copy. - Ruwiki filters Wikipedia articles from lies. It is important that we create our own resources where our citizens can obtain objective information cleaned of propaganda, says Gorelkin on Telegram.
Beyond its internal mechanisms, Wikipedia fosters a culture of fact-checking among its volunteer editors and patrollers.
For now, Ruwiki exists alongside Wikipedia's Russian-language version, which continues after Wikimedia RU's closure, although it's anyone's guess as to how long that will stay true. Wikipedia is a regular target of attacks by the Russian government, and although the state said it had no plans to block the website in April last year, that was before Ruwiki got off the ground.
I am a professional writer and editor, and so it may seem odd that I now spend time putting Catholic sisters' biographies on Wikipedia instead of, say, into standard Oxford University Press reference works, but I do it because of the impact.
But should we not seek the truth? Yes, of course. Nonetheless, as Maher said, like the volunteer writers of Wikipedia, we also must focus on "the best of what we can know right now." That is a statement of intellectual humility, not of relativism. Complex topics and problems do not lend themselves to easy assessments of truth in real time. Through broad sourcing, the Wikipedia model in theory moves us to closer approximations of what is true.
And with generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT scraping Wikipedia for copyright-free material to use as grist for their responses, Sancinito says it is more important than ever that the site be trustworthy. "I would rather AI be scraping Wikipedia than someone's conspiracy theory, but it means we have to make sure what we're putting out there is reliable," she says.
The analysis indicates that 11% of all references linked on Wikipedia are no longer accessible. On about 2% of source pages containing reference links, every link on the page was broken or otherwise inaccessible, while another 53% of pages contained at least one broken link.
This article argues for the significance of Wikipedia for medievalists in terms of how it may shape research, pedagogy, and public-facing work.
I have been investigating Wikipedia for more than three years, having talked to many Wikipedians about how the site's mechanisms have created a self-sustaining system of left-wing and anti-Israel bias.
In its current form, Wikipedia is hostile to Indigenous peoples. Its long-time editors, administrators, policies, and structure, refuse, are not equipped, or are not designed to make the adjustments necessary for meaningful change to occur.
One notable success story is the Santali language Wikipedia, which has experienced an increase in content creation since the deployment of AI tools, leading to an overall increase of 30% in the number of articles.
Wikipedia acknowledges the vast differences between different-language editions of the same subject, stemming from independent editing communities, the availability and use of sources in different languages, cultural and political contexts influencing perspectives, and others.
As it turns out, it's not always clear how to apply Wikipedia's traditional rules to as polarizing a figure as Trump.
While Europe agonises over a possible rise of authoritarianism and greater control of the online information space, organisations like Wikimedia are ambassadors to true internet freedom, maintaining access to information via the people's encyclopaedia.
Note: Content created on Wikipedia needs to be supported by reliable published sources, such as newspaper articles. This can create another barrier for women and racialized people, whose stories can be overlooked by mainstream media.
She's often watched in awe as her sentences ricochet across the internet. "Over the years I've seen lines that I wrote used all over the place, repeated over and over in articles," she said. "The influence you have is tremendous."
While most Wikipedia pages are open to any registered user to edit, an exception is made for certain articles that are locked or "protected" to prevent "disruptive editing on controversial pages", the Wikipedia homepage explains. When pages are locked, the new settings limit and slow down the number of edits made to the pages.
Edit wars have been occurring on Wikipedia for a number of years and for a variety of articles. A 2011 PCWorld article detailed that edit wars had been waged on articles on Nikola Tesla, Star Wars and Chinese Basketball player Yao Ming.
Moreover, in a near consensus, dozens of Wikipedia editors involved in the discussion said they believe the ADL should not be cited for factual information on antisemitism as well because it acts primarily as a pro-Israel organization and tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism.
The editors also cited controversial statements by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who has claimed student protests were proxies of Iran and compared the Palestinian keffiyeh head scarf to the swastika.
As The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports, debate about the ADL has been ongoing for months among the dedicated team of volunteer editors whose work is viewed in more than 15bn monthly visits from web users around the world.
After formal declaration, the decisions will add the ADL to the list banned and partially banned sources.
In a statement, the ADL said the Wikipedia decision was part of a "campaign to delegitimize the ADL."
If Wikipedia's editors are distancing themselves from the ADL, that could suggest media, academic and partnering advocacy organizations will think twice about how they approach ADL data in their own efforts to inform their audiences on antisemitism.
The real problem that the Wikipedia designation points out with the ADL is that there is an inherent contradiction between doing serious research and engaging in advocacy.
A study from the Manhattan Institute, a right-leaning think tank, says it has uncovered 'evidence of political bias embedded in Wikipedia articles.'
Wikipedia editors' decision to categorize the ADL as "a source that is generally unreliable" means that from now on, it will not be possible to quote data or statements from the ADL in articles posted on Wikipedia, except in exceptional cases.
"This discussion contained a range of perspectives, ranging from those who enthusiastically defended the ADL in all contexts, to those who viewed it as categorically unreliable," the three Wikipedians who closed the discussion wrote. "Most editors, however, favored some middle ground between those extremes."
A leading anti-hate organization that tracks reports of antisemitism is fighting back after a group of anonymous volunteer editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia declared the group 'generally unreliable' to provide information on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. … Greenblatt accused Wikipedia of a lack of transparency about its review process and noted that the ADL was never formally notified of the editors' decision. The first ADL heard about the ruling was when it was contacted by news organizations, he said.
Despite these challenges, there are ongoing efforts to counteract bias and ensure a more fair representation of the Palestinian narrative on Wikipedia. The hidden narrative battles for Palestine on Wikipedia highlight the broader struggle for control over historical and contemporary narratives. In the ongoing battle for truth and justice, every edit counts.
"Yes, of course there are a lot of users who support Palestine," said McGrady, who said he has used ADL data in his own media research in the past, "and no shortage of users who support Israel."
In a strongly worded letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, a group of more than forty leading Jewish organizations, such as the Jewish Federations of North America, B'nai B'rith International, and HIAS, voiced their discontent over Wikipedia's recent evaluation of the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) reliability on matters of antisemitism.
The US Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said they 'express concern and dismay with Wikipedia's attack on ADL's reliability on the topic of antisemitism and other issues of central concern to the Jewish community.'
In its attack on the Anti-Defamation League, Wikipedia is "stripping the Jewish community of the right to defend itself from the hatred that targets our community," 43 Jewish organizations wrote to the Wikimedia Foundation board in a letter on Monday.
The ADL criticized Wikipedia's decision regarding its credibility when it was first announced last week. The civil rights organization called the decision "a sad development for research and education" and "devastating for the Jewish community and society."
In a response to an inquiry from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the foundation did not address the content of the letter but appeared to reject its very premise.
The decision of Wikipedia to label the ADL as an "unreliable source" on its site with respect to anything related to Israel generated a letter of protest from 43 of the largest and most influential American Jewish organizations, including a sampling of groups on the center, left and right.
Wikimedia underscored that the foundation has no input on the content. 'This independent relationship is crucial to ensuring Wikipedia remains neutral and free from institutional bias. The Foundation has not, and does not, intervene in decisions made by the community about the classification of a source,' per the statement.
The Wikimedia Foundation, however, issued a statement on Wednesday supporting its editors' decision and the volunteer-led processes that "ensure that neutral, reliable information is available for all."
In deeming ADL reporting as "unreliable," this subset of Wikipedia's editors has ignored all these forms of antisemitism that have emerged over the last eight months.
This is where Maximatic Media's expertise comes into play, crafting pages that not only go live but remain intact against the scrutiny of Wikipedia's dedicated community of editors and administrators.
I think there are a lot of overlooked topics. There's room for us to add. They're trying very hard to identify gaps and recruit people to fill those gaps to sort of help out with some of those biases. They're taking action to try to make things more equitable.
According to a recently published article in Nature, currently, only about 19% of the English-language Wikipedia's 1.5 million biographies feature women.
Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Management, guided participants in learning the basics of Wikipedia article creation and editing. She then led the group in a collaborative effort to enhance entries on notable Mi'kmaw people and organizations.
While the Wikipedia definition of rape is largely consistent across cultures, its interpretation in various languages and contexts can be problematic. The Arabic talk page of the entry "Israel-Hamas war in Gaza" reveals a disturbing picture of denial and misinformation.
Despite long-running disagreements, Russian authorities have not yet blacklisted Wikipedia as they have dozens of other media. For the time being the two exist side by side. But the heavy investment in RuWiki suggests that Wikipedia's days are numbered.
ANI has argued that Wikipedia is a significant social media intermediary under the meaning of Section 2(1)(w) of the Information Technology Act, 2000:
Wikipedia has "faced trouble" from the Kremlin since the start of the Ukrainian war in 2014 , said The Economist, and is now one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia.
The case pits, potentially for the first time in such a significant way, Wikipedia's volunteer-centric editorial norms against Indian regulations like the IT Rules, 2021, which require all loosely defined internet "intermediaries" to take action against content online if it is, among other things, defamatory, and a court or government order is issued against them.
Wikipedia does note that the feature is currently experimental, with a "high likelihood of experiencing issues". As of writing, there has been no indication of whether the option will make its way to the desktop version of the website.
The point is that no matter how robust the rules of Wikipedia's neutral point of view and good-natured ethos of volunteer editing, it is only as a good or as bad as its community. This is perhaps why more people should edit Wikipedia, contribute hours, learn the rules (even though they rarely matter), and put in effort to improve the encyclopedia.
One possible reason funding for the Great Russian Encyclopedia was cut off is the emergence of RuWiki — a Russian-language version of Wikipedia that fully complies with Russian legislation and censorship.
Wikipedia and Telangana IT department's joint venture with Swecha, Hyderabad, which is part of a free software movement of India, will see exchange of data between Wikipedia and the proposed chatbot.
That's where Golf Digest's Jamie Kennedy comes in. He's been compiling some of the wildest Wikipedia major grids. And on Tuesday, he shared them in a thread that was the perfect meshing of Wiki and Twitter. Have a look for yourself:
If one of the world's most influential conduits of knowledge decides it wants to turn itself into the Big Soviet Encyclopedia, that's its prerogative.
Hosted by Franklin Women, an organisation that supports women entering and working in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine, the event trained 30 women to become Wikipedia editors, or "wikimedians".
"The Wikipedia Flood" editor argued that editors have "stacked the deck" by axing various pro-Israel sources while allowing anti-Israel sources like Al Jazeera, The Guardian and the U.N.
Wikipedia's tracker for bugs and issues, Phabricator, shows a "Provide a dark / night mode skin or theme" ticket going back to June 22, 2010. Things really start picking up in early 2022, and the discussion goes lots of places, including accessibility, machine learning, and color-coded map keys. The broad task was marked as "Resolved" on July 12, though many subtasks remain.
Caddie Brain began her time as a Wikipedian working as a journalist in the Northern Territory – and once she started, she couldn't stop. "In my mind, it's absolutely one of the greatest volunteer movements of all time," Brain said.
In a rare move, Agudath Israel of America has posted a statement on X, slamming Wikipedia for its censorship of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The Agudah decried the leftist platform's decision to "delegitimize citing to the ADL in its characterization of Hamas' attacks, and potentially on antisemitism generally".
And for most gender inequalities that you see in the world, you can't do anything about it, but for Wikipedia, you really absolutely can.
While all the South African languages are important, the project kicked off with a special focus on isiNdebele, which had 11 articles on Wikipedia. Thanks to the SWiP Project series of training workshops across South Africa during Phase One of the project, this number has jumped to an impressive 128 articles in less than a year.
To build collaborative efforts to enhance Santali language content online, Wikipedians joined hands together to commemorate the 6th anniversary of Santali Wikipedia.
For many years, the general consensus among Wikipedia editors was that any individual who participated in the Olympics was presumably notable and therefore eligible for an encyclopedia article on the site. However, after extensive community discussions in 2021 and 2022, Wikipedia editors decided to discard this participation-based standard.
Wikipedia's antisemitism is practically ubiquitous across the website. It features an extensive article accusing Israel of "war crimes," "indiscriminate attacks" and "genocide" as Israel seeks to eliminate the Hamas terror organization.
Amid fretting over social-media addiction and disinformation, Wikipedia is one of the internet's great successes.
A "massive culture shift at Wikipedia" has been "precipitated by the rise of a new social-justice-minded power structure at Wikimedia Foundation," reports Ashley Rindsberg at Pirate Wires.
If you visited the Wikipedia website on mobile in July, you might have seen a pop-up indicating that dark mode is ready for prime time. Here is how you can turn it on mobile:
Furthermore, the title of "Wikimedian of the Year" is bestowed upon individuals within the Wikipedia community and other Wikimedia endeavors as a yearly honor for their valuable contributions to the advancement of open knowledge.
The theme of Wikimania 2024 was 'Collaboration of the Open.' The conference can be watched via the Wikimania website.
With more than 16 billion visits per month, Wikipedia's prestige is beyond question. That's why it's the best place to insert disinformation or marketing messages from companies or individuals.
So, in the middle of summer, a group of strangers — a hodgepodge of professors, filmmakers, retirees, and students — sacrificed precious weekend hours to spend it among the archives, microfilm, and stacks to learn how to write a Wikipedia post centered around Santa Barbara's history.
I like to spend this time reading, and my content of choice is the Wikipedia page dedicated to the country or city I'm about to travel to. I won't board that plane until I've made it all the way down to "See also."
No matter how much professors tell you not to use it, Wikipedia will be a part of that journey, mostly working unseen in the code of search results and ChatGPT questions. Harrison shows us the risks of corrupting that shared truth that is guiding us all.
It'd be fair to say that Wikipedia's visitors are innately curious, choosing to go beyond just the result of their search engine keywords in a slightly deeper pursuit to expand their knowledge. Nowhere is this more visible than in India.
The Wikimedian of the Year is selected personally by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who started the platform in 2002, a year before Clover was born.
I have reached out to museums, astronomy clubs, science podcasts, and more. I often either don't hear back or they hand-wave me off, explaining that no one uses Wikipedia for science education. They couldn't be more wrong!
Your teachers may have told you that Wikipedia is not a solid source for academic essays. But that doesn't mean it's not a good source to have a laugh or two.
But despite many of us using Wikipedia on a regular basis, there are things we still don't know about it. For example, there's a really easy way to simplify articles.
For many, including tech journalists and policymakers, it may come as a surprise to learn that Wikipedia is in the same DSA category as some of the best known for-profit social media websites, such as Facebook, TikTok, X (Twitter), and YouTube.
For example, did you know that you can actually shorten lengthy articles and make them easier to read? It's a total game-changer when you're short on time and don't want to wade through swathes of text.
In the end, the only real conflict arose in the education group, where a debate erupted among the eleven members over whether to send funds to Wikipedia. ... Things got tense.