Wired: One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
Wired: One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia. “[Ksenia] Coffman can’t recall exactly when her concern set in. Maybe it was when she read the article about the SS, the Nazi Party’s...
View ArticleThe Pitch: KCPL’s new Wikipedian in Residence gives us the tools to edit our...
The Pitch: KCPL’s new Wikipedian in Residence gives us the tools to edit our own stories. “In June 2021, the Kansas City Public Library announced a new staff position that reimagines the ‘traditional’...
View ArticleAnalytics India: Google Releases Wikipedia-Based Image Text (WIT) Dataset
Analytics India: Google Releases Wikipedia-Based Image Text (WIT) Dataset. “Google recently released a Wikipedia-Based Image Text (WIT) dataset, a large multimodal dataset created by extracting various...
View ArticleWikipedia’s next leader on preventing misinformation: ‘Neutrality requires...
New York Times: Wikipedia’s next leader on preventing misinformation: ‘Neutrality requires understanding.’. “Last week, the Wikimedia Foundation, the group that oversees Wikipedia, announced that...
View ArticleDiff Wikimedia Blog: Content translation tool helps create one million...
Diff Wikimedia Blog: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles. “The Content Translation tool, which was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation Language team in 2014 to...
View ArticleABC News (Australia): Wikipedia ‘edit-a-thons’ set to amplify Australian...
ABC News (Australia): Wikipedia ‘edit-a-thons’ set to amplify Australian music scene’s Wikipedia presence . “The Record — Australian Music on Wikipedia is holding the first of four events as part of...
View ArticleClimate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia (BBC)
BBC: Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia. “Wikipedia has for so long been plagued by climate change denial. But a group of dedicated volunteers around the world is...
View ArticleThe Map Room: Hal Jespersen’s Civil War Maps
The Map Room: Hal Jespersen’s Civil War Maps. “Freelance cartographer Hal Jespersen has created more than 200 maps for various Wikipedia articles on battles in the U.S. Civil War.”The post The Map...
View ArticleDesignboom: wikipedia votes against classifying NFTs as art
Designboom: wikipedia votes against classifying NFTs as art. “a group of editors on wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has voted against categorizing nonfungible tokens (NFT) as a form of art. it...
View ArticleMakeUseOf: 5 Wikipedia Apps to Discover Interesting Articles and Browse...
MakeUseOf: 5 Wikipedia Apps to Discover Interesting Articles and Browse Wikipedia Better. “Wikipedia is one of the greatest free resources on the internet, with almost 6.5 million articles in the...
View ArticleSlate: How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English,...
Slate: How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia. “With deadly explosions in Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv and a developing refugee crisis, it...
View ArticlePenn Today: Bridging Wikipedia’s gender gap, one article at a time
Penn Today: Bridging Wikipedia’s gender gap, one article at a time. “A new study co-authored by Isabelle Langrock, a Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, and Annenberg associate...
View ArticleThe Verge: Wikimedia says it ‘will not back down’ after Russia threatens...
The Verge: Wikimedia says it ‘will not back down’ after Russia threatens Wikipedia block. “The Wikimedia Foundation has issued a statement supporting Russian Wikipedia volunteers after a censorship...
View ArticleThe Verge: A top Wikipedia editor has been arrested in Belarus
The Verge: A top Wikipedia editor has been arrested in Belarus. “The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus (GUBOPiK) has detained prominent Wikipedia editor Mark...
View ArticleMashable: Russians are downloading Wikipedia en masse as possible ban looms
Mashable: Russians are downloading Wikipedia en masse as possible ban looms . “Reporting for Slate, writer Annie Rauwerda dove into Kiwix’s public stats and found that the number of downloads of the...
View ArticleWiley and Wikipedia: Powering Discovery Together (Wiley)
Wiley: Wiley and Wikipedia: Powering Discovery Together. “By partnering with the Wikipedia Library, we allow top Wikipedia editors – qualified on a basis of frequency, volume, and quality of updates to...
View ArticleMashable: The secret Wikipedia prank behind the Pringles mascot’s first name
Mashable: The secret Wikipedia prank behind the Pringles mascot’s first name. “The name ‘Julius Pringles’ — which Kellogg’s claims as officially trademarked, though a search of the United States Patent...
View ArticleHow-To Geek: How to Download Wikipedia for Offline, At-Your-Fingertips Reading
How-To Geek: How to Download Wikipedia for Offline, At-Your-Fingertips Reading. “Have you ever wished you could download Wikipedia in its entirety, and have a copy of it for yourself? There are a...
View ArticleNew York Times: Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further.
New York Times: Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further.. “The Instagram account shares bizarre and surprising snippets from the vast, crowdsourced online encyclopedia, including amusing...
View ArticleopenDemocracy: Belarus is locking up Wikipedia editors over Russia’s invasion...
openDemocracy: Belarus is locking up Wikipedia editors over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Over the past month, the authorities have detained two Wikipedia editors in the country. The reason for their...
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