Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales Is Auctioning His First Wikipedia Edit As an NFT
“There’s going to be a lot of stupid stuff and lots of bad stuff,” the Wikipedia co-founder said of NFTs. “But there is something quite interesting in all of it as well."
Wikipedia and Google Identified Wrong Man as a Serial Killer for Years
After a Discovery show displayed his booking photo in an episode about a serial killer, Nathaniel White's image spread across the internet.
Why Is This Flower on Wikipedia Suddenly Getting 90 Million Hits Per Day?
After India banned TikTok, Wikipedia's servers were hammered for requests to look at this specific flower.
The English Language Wikipedia Just Had Its Billionth Edit
The free, open-source encyclopedia is a monument of human cooperation and collaboration.
Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English
Scots is an official language of Scotland. An administrator of the Scots Wikipedia page is an American who doesn't speak Scots but simply tries to write in a Scottish accent.
You Can Download the Entirety of English Wikipedia to Browse Offline
This is good news for users of Kiwix, an offline browser for web content.
Iran's Answer to the Coronavirus Outbreak: Cut the Internet
Iran is scrambling to control the coronavirus narrative after a prominent adviser to Supreme Leader Khamenei got infected and died.
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.'
We Asked a Wikipedia Contributor Why Everyone Thinks They're Unreliable
"Wikipedia is a gateway to more knowledge," he said.
The North Face Secretly Vandalized Wikipedia to Improve its Google Search Ranking
It was a not-so-clever ploy to insert North Face products into Wikipedia articles of famous tourist destinations.
A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs
Research out of MIT sheds light on why some discussions never get resolved.
Wikipedia Bans Right Wing Site Breitbart as a Source for Facts
Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart—as well as progressive website Occupy Democrats—a can’t be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, “due to its unreliability.”