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Vladimir Putin Explains Why State Media Is Better Than Wikipedia
In the latest salvo in Putin’s long running crackdown against the free encyclopedia, Russia’s president explained why his own experts are better sources of information.
I Look For the Weirdest and Wildest Things on Wikipedia. Here’s What I’ve Learned.
From a tortoise that saved his species by having lots of sex to killings attributed to a Frank Sinatra song, “Depths of Wikipedia” digs up the most bizarre Wiki facts.
Wikipedia Editors Very Mad About Jimmy Wales’ NFT of a Wikipedia Edit
Wikipedia editors agreed that Wales’ post about the auction violated the site's rules about self-promotion.
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.