Bloomberg: Wikipedia is blocked in Pakistan over ‘sacrilegious’ content
Bloomberg: Wikipedia is blocked in Pakistan over ‘sacrilegious’ content. “Pakistan has blocked Wikipedia services in the South Asian nation after the platform failed to remove ‘sacrilegious’ content....
View ArticleChapman University: Research Reveals Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of...
Chapman University: Research Reveals Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust . “New research by Chapman University and the University of Ottawa shows how a small group of...
View ArticlePress Trust of India: Company Employees With Fake Profiles Created False...
Press Trust of India: Company Employees With Fake Profiles Created False Praise About Gautam Adani, Says Wikipedia. “For more than a decade, sockpuppets – some of them being company employees – created...
View ArticleBoing Boing: The cryptid complications of Wikipedia’s editing policies
Boing Boing: The cryptid complications of Wikipedia’s editing policies. “This is (apparently) a great war simmering between Wikipedia editors and cryptid hunters. Cryptid enthusiasts, such as those who...
View ArticleReuters: Russian court fines Wikipedia over military ‘misinformation’
Reuters: Russian court fines Wikipedia over military ‘misinformation’. “The Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million roubles ($27,000) by a Russian court on Tuesday after the authorities accused it of...
View ArticleKyiv Independent: Russia fines Wikipedia for second time over article about...
Kyiv Independent: Russia fines Wikipedia for second time over article about war in Ukraine. “A Moscow court again fined Wikipedia for refusing to remove an article in Russian about Russia’s full-scale...
View ArticleEuronews: EU targets Google, Facebook, Twitter and other ‘very large’ tech...
Euronews: EU targets Google, Facebook, Twitter and other ‘very large’ tech companies with stricter rules. “Social media giants, Google, Alibaba, Amazon and Wikipedia are among the big tech companies...
View ArticleCity A.M.: Wikipedia won’t comply with Online Safety Bill if passed, its...
City A.M. (UK): Wikipedia won’t comply with Online Safety Bill if passed, its charity warns. “Wikipedia will not comply with aspects of the Online Safety Bill if passed, the website’s charity has...
View ArticleNatural History Museum: Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help...
Natural History Museum: Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help save wildlife. ” Monitoring changes in how people view the natural world could prove invaluable in gaining support for...
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New Version of Gossip Machine Available at SearchGizmos.com
I’ve made v2 of Gossip Machine and it’s about 1000% better! I made the first version of Gossip Machine last summer. It uses Wikipedia pageview data to find days when Wikipedia articles got especially...
View ArticleSmashing Magazine: Behind The Curtains Of Wikipedia Redesign
Smashing Magazine: Behind The Curtains Of Wikipedia Redesign. “The Wikipedia team shipped a redesign of the ubiquitous and one of the most visited websites on the web. Alex Hollendar and Jon Robson led...
View ArticleBoing Boing: Wikipedia updates its Creative Commons license
Boing Boing: Wikipedia updates its Creative Commons license. “Wikipedia is moving to the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, from the old version it’s used for years. What’s the difference? It means that other...
View ArticleScroll .in: Delhi court issues fresh summons to BBC, Internet Archive and...
Scroll .in: Delhi court issues fresh summons to BBC, Internet Archive and Wikimedia in defamation case. “A Delhi court on Friday issued fresh summons to the BBC, non-profit body Wikimedia and digital...
View ArticleBloomberg: Russian Wikipedia’s Top Editor Leaves To Launch A Putin-Friendly...
Bloomberg: Russian Wikipedia’s Top Editor Leaves To Launch A Putin-Friendly Clone. “The new site is called Ruwiki, a common shorthand for Russian Wikipedia. It’s the work of Vladimir Medeyko, the...
View ArticleDaily Beast: GOP Lawmaker Banned From Wikipedia After Self-Editing Spree
Daily Beast: GOP Lawmaker Banned From Wikipedia After Self-Editing Spree. “Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) is a notable alumnus of Manhattan College—at least according to the Bronx liberal arts school’s...
View ArticleSwissInfo: Swiss National Library starts collecting Wikipedia articles
SwissInfo: Swiss National Library starts collecting Wikipedia articles. “The Swiss National Library is building a digital collection of Wikipedia articles related to Switzerland. The articles are to be...
View ArticleAssociated Press: Russia fines Google $32,000 for videos about the conflict...
Associated Press: Russia fines Google $32,000 for videos about the conflict in Ukraine. “A Russian court on Thursday imposed a 3-million-ruble ($32,000) fine on Google for failing to delete allegedly...
View ArticleSearch Engine Land: TikTok quietly adds Wikipedia snippets to its search results
Search Engine Land: TikTok quietly adds Wikipedia snippets to its search results. “TikTok now serves Wikipedia snippets in some of its search results. This is the first time that the platform has...
View ArticleABC News (Australia): Why Wikipedia users document the history, cultures and...
ABC News (Australia): Why Wikipedia users document the history, cultures and wildlife of Western Australia. “With 55 million articles in 309 languages, and almost 7 million alone in English, Wikipedia...
View ArticleVice: Wikipedia Editor Who First Noted Henry Kissinger’s Death Has Become an...
Vice: Wikipedia Editor Who First Noted Henry Kissinger’s Death Has Become an ‘Instant Legend’. “Wikipedia users are celebrating the first user to edit Henry Kissinger’s Wikipedia page after the...
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