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Surfacing Geographic Bias in Wikipedia
A new site lets you surface possible geographic bias in Wikipedia. “A new website lets you uncover geographical biases in Wikipedia articles by tracking down where editors of different languages source...
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The Lancet – Medical journals and Wikipedia: a global health matter
From The Lancet: Medical journals and Wikipedia: a global health matter. “Wikipedia is particularly relevant for LMICs [Low-income and Middle-Income Countries – TJC], where internet access is often...
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What Were the Most-Read Articles on Wikipedia in 2016?
What were the most-read articles on Wikipedia in 2016? “In 2016, people around the world turned to Wikipedia for facts about all kinds of things, but especially celebrities who died, television shows,...
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Wikimedia Gets a Big Grant to Get Organized With Structured Data
Wikimedia is getting money to get organized. “Today, the rich images and media in Wikimedia Commons are described only by casual notation, making it difficult to fully explore and use this remarkable...
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Wikimedia: Algorithms and insults: Scaling up our understanding of harassment...
Wikimedia: Algorithms and insults: Scaling up our understanding of harassment on Wikipedia. “Early last year, the Wikimedia Foundation kicked off a research collaboration with Jigsaw, a technology...
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The Guardian: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source
The Guardian: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source. “Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the...
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Newswise: Wikipedia Readers Get Shortchanged by Copyrighted Material
Newswise: Wikipedia Readers Get Shortchanged by Copyrighted Material. “When Google Books digitized 40 years worth of copyrighted and out-of-copyright issues of Baseball Digest magazine, Wikipedia...
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Ars Technica: Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse...
Ars Technica: Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site. “We’ve all heard anecdotes about trolling on Wikipedia and other social platforms, but rarely has anyone been...
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Boing Boing: Watching Wikipedia’s extinction event from a distance
Boing Boing: Watching Wikipedia’s extinction event from a distance. “After being a major contributor for many years, I’ve cringed as Wikipedia slowly devolves like a dying coral reef. Today’s example...
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NPR: What Students Can Learn By Writing For Wikipedia
NPR: What Students Can Learn By Writing For Wikipedia. “Today, educators are among those more concerned than ever with standards of truth and evidence and with the lightning-fast spread of...
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Gizmodo: Bots on Wikipedia Wage Edit Wars Between Themselves That Last For Years
Gizmodo: Bots on Wikipedia Wage Edit Wars Between Themselves That Last For Years. “As a new study published in PLOS ONE reveals, Wikipedia’s bots don’t always get along, frequently undoing each other’s...
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Broadly: Gynopedia Is About to Become the World’s Go-To Source for Women’s...
A new Web site aims to be a Wikipedia-like resource for women’s health around the world. “The concept of Gynopedia is simple: It’s an online, open-source, nonprofit health care database in the style of...
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BBC: Burger King advert sabotaged on Wikipedia
That Burger King / Google Home trick looks like it was a massive backfire. From the BBC: “The ad triggered the devices to read out information about the burgers from online encyclopaedia Wikipedia....
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TechCrunch: Jimmy Wales’ Wikitribune to combat fake news with wiki-powered...
TechCrunch: Jimmy Wales’ Wikitribune to combat fake news with wiki-powered journalism. “With fake news continuing to dominate the discussion about the future of the media and role of social networks in...
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Motherboard: Turkey Has Blocked Wikipedia and Is Censoring Twitter
Motherboard: Turkey Has Blocked Wikipedia and Is Censoring Twitter. “President Erdoğan’s crackdown on voices of dissent is expanding to the internet. Emboldened after his slim win in a referendum to...
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Vice: China is recruiting 20,000 people to write its own Wikipedia
Vice: China is recruiting 20,000 people to write its own Wikipedia. “Known as the ‘Chinese Encyclopedia,’ the country’s national encyclopedia will go online for the first time in 2018, and the...
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TorrentFreak: New Torrent Search Engine Abuses Wikipedia to Get Traffic
TorrentFreak: New Torrent Search Engine Abuses Wikipedia to Get Traffic. “Getting a torrent site off the ground is no easy feat in the current environment but doing so by misleading the public isn’t a...
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Phys.org: Turkish court rejects Wikipedia appeal on ban
Phys.org: Turkish court rejects Wikipedia appeal on ban . “A Turkish court has rejected an appeal filed by Wikipedia against a ban in Turkey on its website. Turkish authorities blocked access to the...
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Wikipedia can pursue NSA surveillance lawsuit: U.S. appeals court (Reuters)
Reuters: Wikipedia can pursue NSA surveillance lawsuit: U.S. appeals court. “A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a Wikipedia lawsuit that challenges a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) program...
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Harvard: Analyzing Accessibility of Wikipedia Projects Around the World
Harvard: Analyzing Accessibility of Wikipedia Projects Around the World . “This study, conducted by the Internet Monitor project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, analyzes the...
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