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|quote=Telugu Wikipedia has little to offer with no more than 72,000 pages of information. ... For this purpose, a team of specialists has been formed including a large number of volunteers who are active on Wikipedia since it is not easy to upload the entire information regarding the State. IIIT-H will provide technical support.
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|quote=Welcome to the often fascinating, occasionally frustrating, sometimes cursed rabbit hole known as the Wikipedia “personal life” entry. Actually, I don’t need to welcome you, because I’m sure you’ve been here. Many times.
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|quote=But does the encyclopedia live up to this vision, or is it playing a part in perpetuating and entrenching long-standing biases? The gender imbalances in both the editor population and the site’s biographies — both over 80 percent male — are well documented. But what of the backbone of the encyclopedia: the sources cited within its pages?
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|quote=The proposed changes to India's intermediary liability changes might "have serious impact on Wikipedia's open editing model, create a significant financial burden for nonprofit technology organisations and have the potential to limit free expression rights for internet users across the country," the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group that operates Wikipedia and a number of other projects, said in a letter to IT Minister [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]].
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|quote=[[Jason Sudeikis]] punching [[Baby Yoda]] in ''[[The Mandalorian]]'' [[Chapter 8: Redemption|season 1 finale]] is added to the actor's Wikipedia page.
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|quote=Wikipedia is still unaccessible in Turkey despite the country’s top court's decision to lift the [[Block of Wikipedia in Turkey|ban on the website]], [[Birgün]] daily reported on Sunday.
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|quote=Wikipedia cracks down on disinformation, and pro-Trump web sites are the first to go.
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|quote=[[Stuart Anderson (politician)|A new Tory MP]] appears to have edited his own Wikipedia page to remove references to funding that one of his companies received from the EU and information about illegal dividends that he was paid.
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|quote=By late Wednesday, access had been restored to most of the country, according to [[NetBlocks]], a group that tracks internet usage and cybersecurity.
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|quote=The Constitutional Court based its ruling on decisions by the European Court of Human Rights, European Council and UN about freedom of internet and expression. It underlined that Wikipedia had millions of users and helped all in their ability to access information.
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|quote=“As access to Wikipedia is still actively being restored across Turkey, some users in Turkey may experience restored access sooner or later than others,'’ [[T.C. Resmi Gazete|the website]] said in a statement
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|title=Wikipedia pages to change as Christchurch takes second place
|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118837945/wikipedia-pages-to-change-as-christchurch-takes-second-place
|newspaper=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]]
|date=January 16, 2020
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|quote=Hundreds of Wikipedia pages will need to be changed after [[Christchurch]] has taken the capital's crown as the second-most populous city in New Zealand.
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|quote=“Originally, I had to become a contributor because I had a high school friend who's a novelist, and his Wikipedia page said he's Italian, so I had to fix it. And then once I figured out, 'Gosh, I could fix the internet,' I had to fix it, and I couldn't stop,” Hayes said.
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|quote=Pune: Wikipedia India has urged medical professionals to contribute to the world’s largest encyclopaedia by writing articles from their field.
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|quote=Error stemmed from someone hacking into [[Reuven Rivlin]]'s Wikipedia page and editing its content.
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|quote=For conservatives, the concern is two-fold: in addition to concerns about security and veracity, it now appears anyone can update Siri using Wikipedia, a website with a known, apparent leftward tilt.
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|quote=[[Snøhetta (company)|Snøhetta]] has been selected by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] for its rebrand. The Foundation, which operates the 19-year-old Wikipedia is looking to update its visual identity, as well as focus their public persona less on the foundation and more on their principal project.
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|quote=MaltaToday is informed that an internal investigation showed that the consultant used a computer assigned to the Education Ministry to change [[Pieter Omtzigt]]’s Wikipedia profile sometime last year.
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|quote=The 6 millionth article is about [[Maria Elise Turner Lauder]], a 19th-century Canadian school teacher, travel writer and fiction writer.
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|quote=A former Education Ministry consultant who used a government PC to change the Wikipedia profile of Dutch MP Pieter Omtzigt is Labour stalwart Anthony DeGiovanni, who has admitted to carrying out "legitimate editing" of the page.
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|quote=Turkey has disabled Wikipedia because it is obligated to protect its image of state, therefore has the right to impose sanctions against any negative behavior, according to an expert.
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|quote=Following the English edition, which hit the five million-mark in late 2015, are the German version with about 2.3 million articles, and the French version, which has about 2.1 million articles, the report added.
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|quote=The world’s largest online multilingual encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has now crossed the milestone of having more than six million articles in English language.
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|title=Macrons and Wikipedia
|url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU2001/S00169/macrons-and-wikipedia.htm
|newspaper=[[Scoop (website)|Scoop]]
|date=January 26, 2020
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|quote=But one of the last bastions of [[Macron (diacritic)|macron]] resistance for place names is Wikipedia, one of the world’s most-viewed websites. That’s a concern, and some [[Kiwi (people)|Kiwi]] Wikipedians want to change this.
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|quote=A macron is used in [[te reo]] to indicate long vowels, and although Wikipedia currently adopts macrons for many words – including the word Māori itself – it does not use them for place names, long a bone of contention in New Zealand.
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|quote=The result, which mentions the "date of assassination" is for a [[Kobe Bryant|Wikipedia page]] about Bryant's life and career. The word "assassination" did not appear on the Wikipedia page, which does have a note that it is "being heavily edited because its subject has recently died."
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|quote=At the same time, it’s sobering because the strategies employed for Turkey seem unlikely to be effective in other countries where Wikipedia has been censored.
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|quote=The idea was first raised on Wikipedia discussion pages in 2007, with no clear consensus.
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|quote=Since access was restored, the local community has been keeping itself busy, and the most “active” article (in terms of editing and internal discussion) in Turkish Wikipedia the week after access was restored was the main entry for Wikipedia itself, followed by the article dealing with why it was banned.
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|quote=The Economic Survey 2019-20 has sourced certain data from Wikipedia, which is not considered as reliable source of information. Besides Wikipedia, the Survey has also relied on data from other private sources such as Bloomberg, ICRA, CMIE...
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|quote=During the Edit-a-thon, participants will learn how to become a Wikipedia editor before reviewing and editing articles on modernist women artists including [[Jessica Dismorr]], [[Jann Haworth]] and [[Prunella Clough]].
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|quote=A man named Bruce Halperin took to Wikipeadia {{sic}} to edit the US Senate page to announce its death and the death of American democracy.
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|quote=A prankster took a swipe at Donald Trump and declared the U.S. Senate to be 'dead' on its Wikipedia page after Senate Republicans voted to block witnesses from testifying in the impeachment trial of the president.
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|quote=So when this little fact about the Economic Survey came to light, Twitter went after the [[Government of India|central government]] and the [[Ministry of Finance (India)|finance ministry]].
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|quote=A prankster altered the U.S. Senate’s Wikipedia page to state that the governmental body was “dead” following the refusal of Republicans to allow witnesses to testify in the ongoing impeachment trial.
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|quote=With more than 100,000 editors working together to create and maintain millions of articles in hundreds of languages, Wikipedia has a good claim to being the greatest large-scale collaborative project in human history.
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|quote=South Africa pacer [[Dale Steyn]] on Tuesday took to Twitter to say that some important piece of information after the 36-year-old bowler was not true on the Wikipedia.
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|quote=While several users pointed out that Google has nothing to do with Wikipedia, another section reminded him that anyone is free to edit on the page.
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|quote=Hence, Twitter users got together to roast the South African speedster with some epic responses. Check out some replies below:
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|quote=She publicly called those editors out for systematic bias and the controversy made it into the UK press, highlighting the shadowy power plays that dictate what information ends up on Wikipedia.
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|quote=Within minutes, the [[Phillip Schofield|TV veteran’s]] Wikipedia page had been updated to reflect the announcement, with the initial choice of wording raising eyebrows and prompting laughs.
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|quote=By performing careful, large-scale analysis of automatic content, “we show how flood coverage in Wikipedia leans towards wealthy, English-speaking countries, particularly the USA and Canada”, the researchers claimed in their work.
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|quote=Stating that the articles in English Wikipedia are not India-centric, he opined that the goal must be to create Indian language Wikipedia content from Indian perspective.
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|quote=In short, Wikipedia has become central in how the [[2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak|ongoing health crisis]] is processed and discussed online. The flip-side of that is that Wikipedia's free-to-edit, open format can be easily used to spread disinformation.
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|quote=Two of the UK’s most prominent financial technology start-ups have been accused of doctoring their entries on Wikipedia in order to remove criticism.
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|quote=It was an amazing thing, Wikipedia. Unlimited knowledge at your fingertips, and you regret not donating a few bucks whenever they asked for money. You wish Wikipedia would go back to the way it was before the .org ___domain, the internet ___domain used primarily for non-profits, was purchased by a for-profit company.
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|quote=Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.
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|quote=The project is not without its difficulties, however, as entries to Wikipedia have to be "notable" enough to make it onto the platform. Scientists who have not been written about struggle to make it onto the site as Wikipedia required "inline citations" as a part of its verifiability process.
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|quote=Text-generating tool pinpoints and replaces specific information in sentences while retaining humanlike grammar and style.
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|quote=Wikipedia, a free multi-lingual online encyclopedia that provides information about almost everything, is seeking donation from the readers in India so it doesn't go under.
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|quote=As such, it's not surprising that someone would eventually suggest [[blockchain]] could solve all of Wikipedia's security problems. It's also not surprising that Wikipedia founder [[Jimmy Wales]] would rip the idea to shreds.
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|quote=In the appeal, which has been removed now, Wikipedia had urged the Indian users to donate money for the ‘unlimited access’. However, no such notice live on the Wikipedia homepage.}}
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|quote=In search of an autonomous solution, researchers at MIT have developed an system that uses AI and machine learning to address inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles.
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|quote=Health crises such as the recent [[2019–20 coronavirus outbreak|outbreak of coronavirus]] add a heightened level of urgency to the work that Wikipedia does on a daily basis, and so Marketplace’s Molly Wood sat down with [[Katherine Maher]], chief executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, to talk about the challenges of misinformation and the future.
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|quote=Instead of relying on volunteers to correct outdated information on Wikipedia, the reference site would soon use a text-generating system “that pinpoints and replaces specific information in relevant Wikipedia sentences, while keeping the language similar to how humans write and edit.”
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|quote=Why do Wikipedians perform these millions of hours of labor, some expended on [[Gävle goat|a giant straw goat]], without pay? Because they don't experience them as labor. “It's a misconception people work for free,” [[Jimmy Wales|Wales]] told the site Hacker Noon in 2018. “They have fun for free.”
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|quote=However, not everyone agrees. And one such disgruntled individual decided to make his indignation known by editing the [[65th Filmfare Awards|Filmfare]] page on Wikipedia, labelling ''[[Gully Boy]]''s awards as "paid."
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|quote=The campaign known on social media as #1Lib1Ref (“One Librarian, One Reference”), asks librarians from around the world to both update existing Wikipedia pages with valid references and create new posts altogether, in an effort to spread awareness and combat inaccurate online information.
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|quote=While Wikipedia itself is well into its second decade, the academic discourse around Wikipedia within the context of health is still young and the academic literature is limited when attempts are made to understand Wikipedia as a health information resource.
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|quote=Unlike Facebook, the Wikipedia social network isn’t designed to generate profit by leveraging user data.
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|quote=[[Michael Bloomberg|The Wikipedia]] article was also changed to indicate that his cause of death was Sen. [[Elizabeth Warren]] (D-MA).
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|quote=In reporting on the purported edits to Wikipedia’s Mike Bloomberg page, one news outlet suggested that a similar edit had been added to say that Bloomberg had been “stabbed by Warren, [Joe] Biden and [Bernie] Sanders”:
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|quote=According to a recent study, the 2018 Sudan floods are just one of many major floods in low-income countries — especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America — that either have truncated Wikipedia pages or lack pages altogether.
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|quote=62 விக்கிப்பீடியர்கள் தமிழ் சார்பாகப் பங்கெடுத்து 2942 (2959) கட்டுரைகளை எழுதி, தமிழ் இந்தாண்டு முதலிடத்தைப் பெற்றுள்ளது [This year [[Tamil language|Tamil]] gains first spot, as 62 [[Wikipedians]] participated for [[Tamil Wikipedia|Tamil]] and wrote 2942 (2959) articles].
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|quote=இந்நிலையில், போட்டிக்கான காலகட்டத்தில் அதிகபட்ச கட்டுரைகள் மட்டுமின்றி, பங்கேற்பாளர்களின் எண்ணிக்கையிலும் தமிழ் மொழி முதலிடத்தை பெற்றுள்ளது. [In this stage, within the specific time limit, not only in terms of more articles even in terms of number of participants too, [[Tamil language]] gains number one position.]
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|quote=The [[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art|Nelson-Atkins]] hosted its fourth annual Wiki Edit-A-Thon to add a bit more truth to those Wikipedia pages.
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|quote=Wikipedia comes in clutch, often. Using it as a source may be frowned upon by professors, but a short chat with most of them and they’ll say Wikipedia is an excellent place to start. The website is a tool, not a cheat code. It would be ignorant to ignore it, but if it’s used appropriately, maybe, just maybe, we could learn something about jellyfish.
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|quote=An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopedia's editors are, where they aren't, and why.
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|quote=For Wikimedia foundation, which runs Wikipedia, the new rules might mean projecting different content for different countries – something that the not for profit organisation is completely against.
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|quote=Several Wikipedia pages have been created during edit-a-thons on campus, including entries for influential feminist publisher and Ithaca resident [[Nancy K. Bereano|Nancy Bereano]] and 19th-century botanical illustrator [[Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft]].
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|quote=Wikipedia offers a wealth of knowledge on countless topics to those who know where to look, but therein lies the rub — navigating its database of over 6 billion articles requires some web-crawling finesse.
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|quote=Progressive commentator Kyle Kulinski claimed Wednesday that his Wikipedia account was deleted due to the actions of “neoliberal trolls.” “Neoliberal trolls successfully got my Wikipedia page deleted,” he tweeted. “That’s both hilarious and sad. If you’re not part of the club they do everything they can to erase you, quite literally.”
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|quote=On 5 March, the Belgian French-speaking public broadcaster [[RTBF]] will organise what it calls a “Wikithon” from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM, with the aim to create 100 new biographical profiles of women on Wikipedia.
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|quote=Wikipedia might not be accessible to Indian users if government approves new internet rules, ''Business Insider'' reported on Tuesday.
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|quote=Recently introduced laws and policies could completely change the way companies dealing with data, in this case Wikipedia, work. It also mandates that companies having more than 50 lakh users to set up a local office with a permanent registered office and address.
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|quote=Wikipedians strive for professionalism, but at a moment when slick internet tools can lend the gloss of high production value to every element of our overdocumented lives, it’s nice to encounter the work of a passionate hobbyist, even if ephemerally—knowing it could be sanded down by one of a thousand volunteer editors at any second.
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|quote=Reavis leads a research lab (think independent study but students can earn credit or do paid research) in which students are researching and publishing profiles about prominent women on Wikipedia. Her students have published 10 profiles so far.
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|quote=At the time of writing, the [[Joe Lycett|comic’s page]] opens with the words, “Hugo Boss (born Joe Harry Lycett; 5 July 1988) is a British comedian.” Before this, there was no mention of his original name and the opening line simply read “Hugo Boss, is a British comedian”, redundant comma and all.
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|quote=And Wikimedia Foundation, the parent company of Wikipedia, has confirmed to Business Insider that it recently began running tests on online donations in India, and looks forward to providing readers in India the ability to support Wikipedia.
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|quote=Wikipedia's [[Persian Wikipedia|Farsi-language website]] appears to be disrupted in Iran after [[Mohammad Mirmohammadi|a close confidant]] to the country's supreme leader died of the [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2|new coronavirus]], [[NetBlocks|an activist group]] said Tuesday, as the Islamic Republic suffers the highest death rate from [[2019–20 coronavirus outbreak|the epidemic]] outside of China.
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|quote= Yet while places like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to fend off a barrage of false content, with their scattershot mix of policies, fact-checkers, and algorithms, one of the web’s most robust weapons against misinformation is an archaic-looking website written by anyone with an internet connection, and moderated by a largely anonymous crew of volunteers.
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|quote=The appalling act of censorship was ostensibly done as a result of [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of scientists who disagree with the scientific consensus on global warming|a discussion]] on a proposal to delete the article.
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|quote=When we visited the Wikipedia page of [[Jyotiraditya Scindia]], it was, however, corrected, showing that he was an Indian politician. There were no mentions or expletives calling him a ‘donkey’ or ‘traitor’.
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|quote=Last year, Reavis, an associate professor of psychology at [[Earlham College]] in Indiana, recruited students in her research lab to develop Wikipedia pages for women in STEM. So far, they’ve created 10 pages profiling women from around the world.
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|quote=Tizzoni suggests that his team’s findings could help public health officials refine their crisis communication strategies, although further research is required to clarify whether this close pattern of synchronisation is similar across different disease outbreak scenarios, and in different countries.
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|quote=The cuts have been swift and the edits rapid as people make a thousand changes to shape the information on political issues fraught with polarising narratives.
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|quote=Wikipedia shows, however, that extreme circumstances, especially when related to public health, require different, more stringent rules, not better application of existing rules. The stakes are simply too high.
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|quote=Highlighting news about the pandemic arguably goes against another of the site’s content policies: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and “not a newspaper.” Then again, that distinction raises tricky questions, like, what’s the difference between a journalist and an encyclopedist who are both chronicling a pandemic in real time?
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|quote=A Christchurch man's campaign for Wikipedia to officially adopt the use of macrons in Māori words has been a success.
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|quote=In the final days of January 2020, Dekimasu, a professor who confirmed his identity to the Daily Dot but asked to remain anonymous, began helping populate the Wikipedia page for the emerging “[[Novel coronavirus]].”
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|quote=To ensure that only the right information is uploaded, especially for Wikipedia since it follows an open editing model that’s been designed to prevent bias, the platform has partnered with Swastha. Swastha is a branch of a much larger Wikipedia group, WikiProject Medicine, that includes doctors and experts from around the world.
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|quote=Ever find yourself down the Wikipedia rabbit hole of oddities and strange occurrences? The nearly 50,000 members of Cool Freaks’ Wikipedia Club have been there, too. In one of the last good things left on Facebook, self-proclaimed “cool freaks” are sharing the quirky Wiki discoveries that left an impression.
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|quote=In the wake of an initial teaser during the most recent bout of runway shows a few months ago, the collaboration between the Études label and the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has taken shape with the launch of a collection of ready-to-wear and accessories.
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|quote=[[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|Penn Museum]] faculty and students celebrated [[Women's History Month]] last week by creating and editing Wikipedia articles about notable women affiliated with the museum. ... “It would have been easy to say, ‘Oh well, we couldn’t do it',” Sharkey said. “But it seems more important to do it now as a way of building community when this pandemic has scattered us all.”
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|quote=Against all odds, Wikipedia's eccentric volunteer editors are holding back the tide of [[coronavirus misinformation]]
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|quote=For many people, Wikipedia is the first port of call to learn about these kinds of subjects, and misinformation on the Wiki can have grave consequences. That's why the organisation is putting extra resources towards limiting fake news circulation by offering information related to the virus and its disease in Indic languages through Project SWASTHA (an abbreviation of Special Wikipedia Awareness Scheme for The Healthcare Affiliates).
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|quote=Wikipedia is working on a new project called “SWASTHA” to fight misinformation relating to the [[2019–20 coronavirus pandemic|Covid-19 pandemic]], reports Gadgets360.
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|quote=It didn’t take long for some pranksters to have some fun, with some edits seemingly made to [[A.J. Styles|Styles]]’ Wikipedia page to reflect the outcome of the brawl. Naturally, everything is back to normal now, but for a short while his bio appeared to list 4 April as the day he died.
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|quote=Everyone is self-isolating and everyone is online – and Wikipedia is one of the beneficiaries. In Italy, [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in Italy|where the virus hit especially hard]], for example, many were using their down time to volunteer on Wikipedia and help enrich its local Italian-language content.
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|quote=When the so-called [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]] invaded Mosul [[Fall of Mosul|in 2014]], there was a significant threat of losing much of the knowledge made available to the population. With this, Iraqis secretly downloaded and shared countless Wikipedia pages.
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|quote=Five years ago, [[Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight|Stephenson-Goodknight]] didn't have her own Wikipedia page. For most of her life, she didn't contribute to the website at all. But Stephenson-Goodknight has become a superstar in the community, and a pioneer for gender equality on a platform deeply in need of articles about women. She has written over 5,000 articles for the website, nearly 1,400 dedicated to women specifically. That's not insignificant, given that only 18 percent of Wikipedia's biography entries are about women.
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|quote=Oxlaj Kumez is working with other activists to create a version of Wikipedia in [[Kaqchikel Maya]]n, as well as a translated version of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser.
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|quote=As far as I know, [[Edward Kosner|the entry]] had never been fiddled with since it was originally published in the open-sourced encyclopedia that, along with Google, is the modern resource of choice for checking each other out. Then, not long ago, I clicked on my page and suddenly read that I was a Jew.
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|quote=A Twitter user on Thursday, 16 April, alleged that Wikipedia had accepted payment to delete an article titled ‘[[2020 Tablighi Jamaat coronavirus hotspot in Delhi]]’. “How much will our media and woke intellectuals hide their wrongdoings?” she quipped in her tweet, which has more than two thousand likes and a thousand retweets – and some very baffled responses from Wikipedia founder [[Jimmy Wales]].
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|quote=Anyhow, the article has now been restored but with multiple sources, it seems.
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|quote=Wikipedia co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] schooled a user on micro-blogging site after she said the site was bribed to delete the “Tablighi Jamaat 2020 Coronavirus Hotspot” page.
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|quote=Social media users and platforms like Wikipedia, Quora and Twitter are waging a war against communalism in the wake of the [[2020 Tablighi Jamaat coronavirus hotspot in Delhi|Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi]] that spawned Covid-19 clusters across the country.
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|quote=Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with [[Wikimedia Ukraine]] NGO launches an initiative to counter disinformation about Ukraine and communicate unbiased facts about the country in various languages on Wikipedia.
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|quote=Ukraine's [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] in cooperation with Wikimedia Ukraine nonprofit is launching an initiative to counter disinformation about Ukraine and communicate unbiased facts about the country in various languages on Wikipedia.
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|quote=Around 4,504 Wikipedia pages have been created to record different aspects of [[2019–20 coronavirus pandemic|the pandemic]], its spread to different countries, the race to find a treatment and viral conspiracies. Of the total pages, the English-language articles on Wikipedia about the virus alone have registered over 240 million views.
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|quote=Great news. As of 22 April 2020, Wikipedia is a reliable source on whether or not a populated place is spelled with a [[Macron (diacritic)|macron]].
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|quote=The annals of Wikipedia are an irresistible rabbit hole - you enter looking for something as inane as a person's birth date, and next thing you know, you're 5 pages deep into the life and times of murderer [[Ted Bundy]]. There's also records of all kinds of strange and disturbing events on there, which are as interesting as they are unsettling.
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|quote=“Occupation” is a word that dominates most debate about Israel, but the truth is that pro-Palestinian propagandists are occupying Google and Wikipedia to keep debunked narratives alive.
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|quote=It isn’t just the TV news media that have covered the allegations so differently. A closer look at [[Joe Biden|Biden’s]] and [[Brett Kavanaugh|Kavanaugh’s]] Wikipedia pages and the discussion on the “Talk” pages for their entries (where contributors and editors discuss disagreements about what should be included in an article) shows their differing treatments.
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|quote=There was a goof-up in the Wikipedia profile of West Bengal BJP State President and MP [[Dilip Ghosh (politician)|Dilip Ghosh]]. On Thursday, Wikipedia mistakenly identified Dilip Ghosh as the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
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|quote=We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,070,641-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: [[List of impostors]].
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|quote=Despite the typo in [[Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act|the Wikipedia entry]], social media posts are circulating with screen grabs of the 2017 date say things like, “Check the dates.. PlanneDemic,” and “Clearly a PLAN – DEMIC.” But the posts prove no such thing. All they show is a typo on Wikipedia and a misrepresentation of the bill’s legislative history.
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|quote=In my eyes, they’re the unsung heroes, the ‘real MVPs’ of the internet, and a list commemorating their work is the least of what we should do for them. But let’s get to know who they are so that we know who to be thankful to while scrambling to meet that paper deadline in the wee hours of the morning.
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|quote=Much like WhatsApp, Facebook and more, Wikipedia has also jumped onto the bandwagon to provide people with accurate information with its Swastha initiative. Read on to know more about it.
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|quote=Attempts to make alterations to the Wikipedia page of Solicitor General [[Jose Calida]] appeared to fail this week, following his successful push to have the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) order media giant ABS-CBN to [[ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy|cease operations]].
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|quote=There's a lot of free time nowadays we can spend reading random stuff on the internet. Especially when it comes to he creepy and the bizarre, it's like this lockdown has awakened the horror lover in us all. Wikipedia has a bunch of extremely disturbing reads on all kinds of subject matter, perfect to dive into and while away the hours.
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|quote=He goes on to call [[Theresa Tam|Canada’s chief medical health officer]] a “major player in the corrupt World Health Organization,” while making allegations about her sexuality citing suspicions on Wikipedia.
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|quote=Taken together, the “blips” in Google and Wikipedia search records suggest a heightened curiosity about SARS/Coronavirus in early Fall 2019, one to two months before the first confirmed cases.
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|quote=On [[MasterChef Australia (series 12)|the page's]] elimination chart, a surprising additional contestant has been listed as being 'eliminated' after Chris Badenoch was sent home on Sunday night.
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|quote=We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the most fascinating Wikipedia pages about Old Hollywood. Here are the ones that'll keep you entertained for days.
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|quote=None of Houston’s former or current poet laureates have articles, nor do any of the rising female rappers we mentioned in a feature last year. A new series of free, online Wikipedia editing workshops aim to change that by training its participants in how to create and edit articles to increase the online exposure of Bayou City women artists.
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|quote=No reason was given for the decision to scrap the project, but it is likely to have been a result of a mounting economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus lockdown and a collapse in global prices for oil, Russia’s main export.
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|quote=[[Larry Sanger|Sanger]] – who is no longer with involved with Wikipedia – wrote that it has long forgotten its original policy of aiming to present information from a neutral point of view, and nowadays the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia “can be counted on” to cover politics with a liberal point of view.
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|quote=The Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that runs the site, voted on new measures that will be finalised by the end of the year.
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|quote=Wikipedia's pages on [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] and [[COVID-19 pandemic|the pandemic]] are viewed more than a million times a day, and edited almost every hour of the day.
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|quote=Wikipedia plans to crack down on harassment and other “toxic” behavior with a new code of conduct. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, which oversees Wikipedia among other projects, voted on Friday to adopt a more formal moderation process.
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|quote=Writing in the ''International Journal of Big Data Intelligence'', a team from Italy describe the 'Negapedia' system, which is an online public service that offers a more complete picture of the underlying layers of Wikipedia.
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|quote=In a statement on the foundation’s culture and that of its respective properties, the board made it clear that more can and should be done to create safer and more inclusive spaces.
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|quote=But today’s wealth of Wikipedia content will also be valuable to future parties. As scholar and Wikimedia program coordinator Liam Wyatt writes, the “text in Wikipedia’s archive will be of interest to linguists, historians or sociologists of the year 4000.”
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|quote=“Our analysis reveals that in practice almost none of the edits are partisan-political, and that many of the edits represent highly valuable contributions to public knowledge,” the authors write after analyzing over 800 @gccaedits tweets.
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|quote=Contributors are rethinking what Wikipedia’s commitment to neutrality actually means.
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|quote=A section of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood where protestors have built barriers and declared themselves autonomous has already made it into the history books—or at least onto Wikipedia.
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|quote=We’ve found the new feature can be fairly hit or miss, however. For starters, it doesn’t always recognize a search term as a proper title. A search for “joker,” for instance displayed a Wikipedia-powered information box for the movie. But a search for “parasite” failed to do so for the Oscar-winning title that in 2020 became the first non-English film to win Best Picture.
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|quote=As noted by SocialMediaToday, who was the first to note that the feature is being introduced, the feature is similar to Google's 'Knowledge Panels' which were added in 2012. ... For now, the feature is a pilot program, according to Techcrunch, and is live for English users with iOS, on desktop, or using mobile web.
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|quote=We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share their favorite Wikipedia pages about historical queer figures. Here are the fascinating results:
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|quote=In a request for comments (RFC) page created to debate the proper status of Taiwan in its Wikipedia entry, editors in May fiercely debated the merits of referring to [[Taiwan]] as a "state" or a "country."
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|quote= Health Minister [[David Clark (New Zealand politician)|David Clark's Wikipedia entry]] was today edited to include a new piece of information. As of earlier this morning, the entry about Clark on Wikipedia states that he is, as well as the Minister for Health, "an avid campaigner for throwing under the bus policy".
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|quote=At least one highly dedicated Wikipedia user has been scrubbing controversial aspects of [[Kamala Harris|Harris]]'s 'tough-on-crime' record from her Wikipedia page.
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|quote=An online battle has erupted over the Wikipedia page for Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., with a significant uptick in edits that reflects a pattern that's been seen ahead of past vice-presidential announcements and led Wikipedia to put the page under "discretionary sanctions."
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|quote=“[If we were to] live in a world where there is no [[Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act|Section 230]] in the United States, that changes things drastically,” Sherwin Siy, the Wikimedia Foundation’s senior manager for public policy, told Digital Trends.
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|quote=While we legally cannot, with 100% certainty, claim “[[NYPD|New York’s finest]]” tried to lazily edit their own entry on Wikipedia to be infinitely more flattering—signs point strongly toward them doing precisely that!
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|quote=The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Wednesday edited a portion of its Wikipedia page to try and gloss over references to police brutality and misconduct, according to a Twitter account that tracks NYPD changes to Wikipedia articles.
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|quote=自由編改的「維基百科」成為反對派抹黑武器，亦為戀殖播「獨」的溫床！記者發現，包括「佔中」發起人戴耀廷、前香港眾志秘書長黃之鋒、公民黨主席胡志偉、公民黨黨魁楊岳橋等多名反對派政客，於維基百科條目中的出生地一欄均為「英屬香港」。[Free encyclopedia "Wikipedia" has become a tool of the "[[Pro-democracy camp (Hong Kong)|opposition camp]]", and a hotbed of "colonial nostalgia" and "[[Hong Kong independence]]"! I find that in Wikipedia, the birthplace of many "opposition camp" politicians, such as [[Benny Tai]], [[Joshua Wong]], [[Wu Chi-wai]] and [[Alvin Yeung]], is "[[British Hong Kong]]".]
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|quote=The reelection campaign for Charleston County Sheriff [[Al Cannon]] paid a sheriff's office employee to create his Wikipedia page during his off-duty hours.
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|quote=A former editor at Wikipedia says that the online encyclopedia engaged in a multiyear smear campaign against conservative radio host [[Mark Levin]].
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|quote=There are more than 5,200 articles about Covid-19 on Wikipedia. One defines [[Coronavirus disease 2019|the disease]], and another [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2|the virus that causes it]]. Articles describe the virus’s impact on everything from [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disc golf|disc golf]] to [[Human rights issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic|human rights]]. [[Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic|Timelines]] abound; you can follow Covid-19’s progress day by day, or country by country.
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|quote=Lord Melville described the [[Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville|Dundas Wikipedia entry]] as a “rag-doll being pulled in different directions”.
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|quote=In the 2000s, [[Andrew Schlafly|he]] was one of many volunteers to edit Wikipedia, but he gave up, feeling that it attracted what he calls “a mob of mostly young men who… have been allowed to bully others and enforce a certain liberal point-of-view.
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|quote=While Wikipedia is now available in [[Kurmanji]], [[Sorani]] and [[Zazaki]] dialects, only Kurmanji has a Wiktionary page (‘Wikifereng') which allows users in Turkey and beyond to delve deeper into their own language, and access translations to others.
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|quote=The Wikipedia community recently engaged in a spirited debate over whether [[Fox News]] is a reliable enough source to use as a citation in entries on the encyclopedia. Dozens and dozens of editors, all of whom are volunteers, weighed in for what was a [[Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#RfC:_Fox_News|lively online discussion]].
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|quote=The online encyclopedia is urging its users in India to donate a sum ranging between ₹150 to ₹5,000.
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|quote=A social media campaign, spearheaded by prominent right-wing personalities accusing Wikipedia of being 'anti-Hindu', began trending Saturday, three days after the open-source information website asked Indian users to donate to 'defend Wikipedia's independence'.
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|quote=The only section that makes Wikipedia better than an encyclopedia
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|quote=“As someone who studies misinformation and disinformation, it’s kind of a ray of hope in a sea of pollution,” West added. “It’s almost like people’s passion to get things right and to be these curators of human knowledge makes them even more careful.”
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|quote=If you’re a [[Penn State]] student, chances are you’ve got a close relationship with good ol’ Wikipedia.
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|quote=It's unclear whether [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] is aware or not, but a silent culture war is being fought in the digital theatre. Wikipedia is one of the main battlegrounds.
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|quote=With this latest decision, Wikipedia offers a promising model for digital platforms.
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|quote=Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation has said that the Hausa language topped the list of articles created by language category on Wikipedia women writing contest.
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|quote=“Many of the articles are skimpy and do not rise to the standard of other artists. By simply enumerating the Black women artists whose articles could be improved, we made an important step forward in correcting the invisibility of these artists.”
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|quote=For nearly a decade I had been taught one simple truth, Wikipedia was a place that truth went to die. What changes were made within the website to create a newfound trust among teachers?
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|quote=Because Wikipedia pages tend to appear high in Google search results, it is worth checking your stations’ articles to see if there is incomplete or missing information, both in the new infobox and the article.
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|quote=Once the news broke, many of the first edits to [[Kamala Harris|Harris]]’s Wikipedia page were the sort of structural maintenance done by veteran editors on the site: citing sources, attaching categories, improving captions, and adding a notice that Harris was “a person involved in a current event,” and as such, “information may change rapidly as the event progresses.”
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|quote=The fundraising drive sparked heated debates amongst social media users — some of whom questioned whether one of the world’s most popular websites really needed donations to stay afloat.
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|quote=Google's John Mueller said on Reddit that links from Wikipedia not only have no SEO value but also those links "will do nothing for your site" from a Google search perspective.
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|quote=For editors creating or editing Wikipedia content on those marginalized within Wikipedia’s vast database, it can be frustrating to write topics in for which secondary sources are scarce—a problem well-documented by contributors like mathematician Marie Vitulli, who has worked to write women mathematicians into Wikipedia.
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|quote=...I have never been to Scotland, do not know anyone from Scotland, and do not speak Scots. However, my editor then dropped this Reddit post into our Slack and thus, I fell headfirst into the [[Scots Wikipedia]] rabbit hole.
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|quote=Wikipedia users claimed this had led to thousands of articles written in “Scotched English” featuring made up words and “gibberish”. Some users called for the page to be deleted entirely. “The only real answer is to nuke it,” one said.
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|quote=As one of the few substantial online resources that claims to be in Scots, its error-strewn pages are used for translation and language services offered by tech companies. A Facebook tool, free for other programmers to use, lists Scots as one of the languages it can process based on Wikipedia.
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|quote=A wikipage is only as neutral as its contributor and its administrator. The more arcane the subject matter the fewer active Wikipedia enthusiasts there are in that field. Not every area of human discourse has a dedicated team of referees to police how it is presented online.
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|quote=However, help is now at hand. As a result of the recent discussions around this issue, the Scots Language Centre was approached for advice and director Dr Michael Dempster offered to mediate, co-ordinate and bring interested parties together. It was soon discovered that there is a strong desire by many in the Scots-speaking community to come forward and help in a constructive way.
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|quote=“I don’t think people necessarily realize how important Wikipedia is for training all of our language technologies,” said David Yarowsky, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University.
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|quote=However, a completely different trend emerged from the analysis of Wikipedia’s Bhojpuri pages — the most visited page was the one about “bur”, the local word for vagina. And searches about female genitalia and sexual positions, the report says, led Bhojpuri searches for the entire seven-month analysis period.
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|quote=To their credit, the admins said that they would not reinstate the page, in part because it was a 'serious' violation of Wikipedia's rules around [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|<!-- link is original to quoted text -->Biographies of Living Persons]].
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|quote=A meeting in Mangaluru in 2014 and the subsequent formation of Karavali Wikipedia Users’ Group in early 2017 gave fillip to Tulu. The 23rd Indian language to have a Wiki edition went live in 2016 (after eight years of being in incubation), and has 1,350 articles now.
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|quote=[[Michal Rosen-Zvi|Rosen-Zvi]] discovered that thousands of people were crowdsourcing global information about Covid-19 in the most unlikely, but obvious, ___location: Wikipedia.
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|quote=Wikipedia’s top ten longest pages are on various subjects that are both relevant to current times and also unexpected. [[Donald Trump]]‘s page comes in at No. 9 with 476,573 bytes while [[Presidency of Donald Trump|his presidency]] page ranks at No. 8 with 478,194 bytes.
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|quote=If there is any reason to think the situation with Scots Wikipedia will improve over time, it might simply be that Wikipedia editors themselves are quite industrious—and, relatively speaking, more forgiving.
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|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/back-your-backyard/122736748/nz-tourisms-wikipedia-problem-fox-glacier-page-dominated-by-deaths-rural-nz-nonexistent
|newspaper=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]]
|date=September 12, 2020
|access-date=September 14, 2020
|language=en
|quote=New Zealand has a Wikipedia problem, according to Wikipedian at Large Dr [[Mike Dickison]].
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|quote=Not everyone can have them because they are expensive and time consuming to create. However, having them improves your future career prospects, credibility and connection with your audience.
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|quote=An experiment by economists at the [[Collegio Carlo Alberto]] in Turin, Italy, found that a few simple edits to a Wikipedia page could lead to an extra £100,000 a year in tourism revenue for a small city, underscoring the power of the free online encyclopaedia. ... Most of the content added was simply translated over from the Spanish Wikipedia into either French, German, Italian.
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|quote=The press service suggested that the moderators decided to "rename" [[Kyiv|the article]] because of the growing use of "Kyiv" in English-language sources.
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|quote=Wikipedia couldn’t change the mistake earlier because it just displayed the spelling that is most popular among prestigious international media outlets, the Ukrainian representative office of Wikipedia said.
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|quote=[[Jimmy Kimmel|Kimmel]], however, apparently often likes to alter Wikipedia pages as pranks...
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|quote=Now, the overall look of Wikipedia on desktop is getting a makeover for the first time in a decade to make the site more approachable for new users.
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|quote=Six years later, Valentine and Hart have introduced more than 1,200 entries on Black artists and institutions to Wikipedia, while modifying the existing entries of far more.
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|quote=Edit-a-thons help to revise and improve Wikipedia pages about a specific topic or type of content. The first edit-a-thon, which was held Thursday, had a “Constitution Day” theme, selecting from [[American Archive of Public Broadcasting|AAPB]] archives and exhibits that concern free speech and protests as they relate to the U.S. Constitution.
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*{{cite news
|last=O'brien
|first=Peter
|title=Something Wiki This Way Comes
|trans-title=
|url=https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2020/09/something-wiki-this-way-comes/
|newspaper=[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]
|date=September 29, 2020
|access-date=February 21, 2021
|language=en
|quote=I had noticed that the Wikipedia article on Pascoe made no mention of my book Bitter Harvest, which is the most authoritative, almost the only, counter to his blatant nonsense, misquotation and fabrications. I had also noticed that the article canvassed the issue of his dodgy Aboriginality and so it occurred to me that there might be a place in the article for a mention of the existence of Bitter Harvest...etc
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*{{cite news
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|access-date=September 30, 2020
|language=en
|quote=China’s move to deny observer status for San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia’s parent, at the Geneva-based [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (Wipo) dovetails with Beijing’s long-standing policy of limiting international recognition of the self-governing island.
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|access-date=October 2, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The museum archivist, Stephanie Crawford, will guide participants in helping to bring women artists currently missing or misrepresented on Wikipedia onto the pages of the digital encyclopedia.
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|access-date=October 2, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Beyond documenting [[Al-Aqsa Intifada|the intifada]] itself as it happened, the article also documented something no less important: the battle over the narrative of the [[Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]. This skirmish proved pivotal to Wikipedia’s own history.
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|access-date=October 5, 2020
|language=en
|quote=I know enough about most celebrities so there are only parts of their lives for which I need to fill in the blanks. That specialized information is usually contained in two parts of Wikipedia’s biographical format: the “Early Life” and “Personal Life” sections. In Early Life, I learn about their parents, education and factors that molded their lives. In Personal Life is the juicy stuff: marriages, divorces, affairs, squandered wealth and scandals.
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|access-date=October 5, 2020
|language=en
|quote=However, it was clear during the research that there is one major snag in using Wikipedia in this way—the site doesn't allow commercial gain (it is famously advert-free) and relies entirely on public contributions and volunteers to update the site.
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|language=en
|quote=An edit-a-thon, hosted by the [[Ypsilanti]] District and University of Michigan libraries, is a virtual event to help boost the city of Ypsilanti and related Wikipedia pages to be more representative of the community, said Sam Killian, community relations coordinator at the Ypsilanti library.
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|language=en
|quote=Students are often warned against using Wikipedia in their work: it’s commonly referred to as an unreliable source, particularly because anyone can edit an article. Offering an alternative view is one of [[UCT]] Libraries’ Wikibrarians, Ingrid Thomson, who shared the many benefits of using Wikipedia in teaching and learning.
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|language=en
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201009165929/https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/sushant-singh-rajput-suicide-wikipedia-conspiracy-theories.html
|archive-date=October 9, 2020
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|access-date=October 13, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Katherine Maher dispels the darkness of our minds and enlightens us about the inner workings of Wikipedia and her goals for the organization.
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|access-date=October 14, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The Wikipedia page of Sushant Singh Rajput shows the cause of death as 'Suicide by hanging' and it has not gone well with his family friend Smita Parikh.
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|access-date=October 18, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Messages such as “onemanonewoman” have been removed from editor ‘userboxes’ on the online encyclopaedia.
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|access-date=October 20, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia’s articles can no longer include on their profile page any “userbox” — a badge expressing their beliefs — that is against gay marriage. For example, one such userbox states, “This user believes marriage is between one man and one woman.”
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|access-date=October 19, 2020
|language=en
|quote=One administrator even said during the discussion that he considered a userbox supporting the [[Black Lives Matter|BLM movement]] acceptable, one stating "All Lives Matter would be...deeply problematic" in his opinion.
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|access-date=October 19, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Journalist [[Jeffrey Toobin]]’s Wikipedia page was briefly updated with a section titled 'Zoom Dick Incident' on Monday to reflect a recent controversy in which he exposed himself during a virtual meeting.
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|url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a34412278/wikipedia-at-20/
|newspaper=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]
|date=October 20, 2020
|access-date=October 20, 2020
|language=en
|quote=You could make a strong case for suggesting that Wikipedia is the most valuable single site online, and the most eloquent and enduring representative of the internet as a force for good.
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|access-date=October 22, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The health agency will license much of its material to the online encyclopedia, allowing the information to be reposted widely into almost 200 languages.
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|access-date=October 24, 2020
|language=en
|quote=We examine specific mechanisms that produce political bias in Wikipedia, with a focus on administrative decisions at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard. We also discuss how this bias ultimately affects the site's content.
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|access-date=October 28, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers Wikipedia, announced today a collaboration to expand the public’s access to the latest and most reliable information about [[COVID-19]].
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|url=https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/522350-wikipedia-and-who-collaborate-to-provide-better
|newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]
|date=October 22, 2020
|access-date=October 28, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The partners said by allowing WHO’s resources to be freely used, Wikipedia’s 250,000 volunteer editors can build on and expand the site’s COVID-19 coverage, which currently offers more than 5,200 coronavirus-related articles in 175 languages.
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|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/wikipedia-sichuan-pepper-misinformation.html
|language=en-US
|quote=Then, while reading lazy half-truths about [[Sichuan pepper]] at my kitchen counter, it was as if I received some librarian version of the bat signal, a single round peppercorn outlined against the night sky. Here, I was needed. Here, I could do something. It was easy to begin. The barrier to entry for editing Wikipedia is low, and I already had a Wikipedia account.
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|access-date=October 26, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The encyclopedia is determined to emerge from the insanity of a pandemic and a polarizing election with its information and reputation intact.
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|access-date=October 27, 2020
|language=en
|quote='We are in an embarrassing situation where a [[Theresa Greenfield|clearly notable politician]] who appears poised to win a seat in the US Senate doesn't have an article—a complete failure of our mission to deliver high quality information to the world,' [[Jimmy Wales]] wrote, using his Wikipedia alias Jimbo.
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|access-date=October 28, 2020
|language=en
|quote=[[Theresa Greenfield|Greenfield]] is an uniquely tricky case for Wikipedia because she doesn’t have the background that most candidates for major political office typically have (like prior government experience or prominence in business). Even if Wikipedia editors could recognize she was prominent, she had a hard time meeting the official criteria for notability.
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|access-date=October 28, 2020
|language=en
|quote=A scenario where nefarious users attempt to edit Wikipedia pages with unofficial or even entirely fabricated election results seems entirely plausible, if not expected. Wikipedia is preparing itself for this. We’ll see if it's effective next week.
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|access-date=October 28, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The obsession with secrecy also led to a Wikipedia editing war in September.... By the end of the day, the Wikipedia editors lost, and Patriot Front no longer appeared on the page. <!-- It's not clear from the article, but I contacted the author and this is all referring to [[2020 United States racial unrest]] -->
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|trans-title=
|url=https://www.inlander.com/spokane/something-wikipedia-this-way-comes/Content?oid=20525857
|newspaper=[[Inlander (newspaper)|Inlander]]
|date=October 29, 2020
|access-date=October 29, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Horror is such a crucial part of American culture, the foundation of so many references and homages, that completely covering my eyes is hardly a solution. I'm left with the same sort of foolish curiosity that plagues the victims in these movies: I know I shouldn't go in there, but some dark force still compels me to find out what happens. Enter Wikipedia.
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|access-date=October 29, 2020
|language=en
|quote=We're really worried about coordinated actors ... trying to find a way to disseminate information ... in a way that could cause people, for example, to choose not to vote or to influence the outcome of the election based on something that was not true.
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|access-date=October 30, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia is a key channel to enable sharing of climate change information between the scientific and policy communities, as well as the general public.
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|access-date=October 30, 2020
|language=en
|quote=I’ve tried to set the record straight, but it’s a smear that just won’t die because it sits right at the top of [[Toby Young|my Wikipedia page]]. For lazy journalists, Wikipedia is the only thing they read when ‘researching’ an article.
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|access-date=November 1, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia is looking for your photos of historical sites. They're calling it "the world's largest photography contest" and it ends October 31st. [[Montana]] has over 1,000 nationally recognized historic sites and Wikipedia breaks them down by county. Odds seem pretty good that you likely have a good picture of at least one of these historic places in Big Sky Country.
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|access-date=November 1, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Staffers at Wikipedia's parent organization and the volunteer editors who maintain its millions of pages have a plan to ensure that election-related entries aren't improperly edited.
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|access-date=November 2, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang recently detained and warned an internet user after they were detected using a circumvention tool to read information on Wikipedia, which lies outside China's complex network of blocks, filters, and human censorship known as the Great Firewall.
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|access-date=November 1, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The company, known as Percepto (formerly Veribo), allegedly edited Wikipedia entries having to do with a [[WE Charity|Canadian charity]] that later became embroiled in a scandal involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-09-27/Special_report|Signpost article]].
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|access-date=November 2, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Dozens of people across [[Wikimedia Foundation|the foundation's]] security, product, legal and communications teams have set up protections for the website, guiding the hundreds of unpaid volunteers who edit its pages.
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|language=en
|quote=This will be the sixth presidential election in Wikipedia’s lifetime, and the site’s all-volunteer army of thousands of editors has used those years of experience to develop and refine methods of combating lies and inaccuracies during prominent breaking new events while also identifying and deleting anything incorrect or poorly sourced that happens to make it onto their pages.
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|access-date=November 4, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia editors, in an article in their online newspaper, said the Israeli firm was working for [[WE Charity]] when its employees modified the WE-related articles, making some of them more promotional. But in response to questions from The Globe and Mail on Monday, a senior WE executive denied the allegation and said the charity had never heard of Percepto until a media report this week.
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|trans-title=
|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-culture-war
|newspaper=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]
|date=November 3, 2020
|access-date=November 4, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Three local editors say that in recent months, there has been “a push by the right wing to prove Wikipedia has a particular bias”, as Subhashish puts it. Wikipedia articles on everything from [[Brahmanism]] and [[Islamophobia in India]], to [[Jai Shri Ram]] and the [[2020 Delhi riots]] have been beset by massive edit wars.
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|language=en
|quote=So, while some facts I learned long ago might not have stuck, I did learn one important strategy early in life: how to research. I learned how to find answers and check their validity. It was for these reasons that I fell in love with Wikipedia.
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|access-date=November 10, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia is everything. But when it comes to Indian languages there is a whole lot of distance to cover.
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|language=en
|quote=New Zealand’s only "Wikipedian at Large", Dr [[Mike Dickison]], recently finished a six-week-long West Coast visit, funded by Development West Coast, to boost the region’s presence on the platform.
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|access-date=November 24, 2020
|language=en
|quote=...the consensus is that Wikipedia is ''the'' major success story of the Internet era. A ridiculously simple principle—'Anyone can edit'—has produced a more or less responsibly curated, perpetually up-to-date, and infinitely expandable source of information, almost all of it hyperlinked to multiple additional sources.
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|url=https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/wikipedia-september-11-breaking-news.html
|newspaper=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]
|date=November 17, 2020
|access-date=November 19, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The availability and timeliness of Wikipedia content around topics of general interest would prove to be critical for its own sustainability in addition to complementing other platforms’ need to serve relevant and up-to-date content.
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|language=en
|quote=Canada Border Services Agency Superintendent Sanjit Dhillon said he spent five to 10 minutes reviewing the Wikipedia article and it 'gave rise to suspicion' that [[Meng Wanzhou]] could be involved in subverting the Canadian government.
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|language=en
|quote=“Did you check the reliability of this information?” Duckett asked, adding if Dhillon was also aware of the open-sourced nature of Wikipedia information that anyone can edit.
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|language=en
|quote=Professor Ian Hall, from Manchester University and deputy chair of SPI-M, said: “The public may be surprised that we were using Wikipedia to get data very early on in the pandemic, but that was really the only data that was publicly available that we could access.”
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|access-date=November 20, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Members of the Government’s [[Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies]] (SAGE) turned to the free online encyclopaedia when compiling their reports on possible outcomes of the pandemic. Wikipedia pages can be edited and managed by members of the public. This meant forecasts given to the Prime Minister in mid-March could have been based on inaccurate data – which could have contributed to a delay in the national lockdown.
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|access-date=November 21, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The government’s scientific advisors had to rely on Wikipedia to gather data in the early days of the pandemic in what critics say was a sign of how unprepared Britain was for coronavirus.
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*{{cite news
|last=Still
|first=Jennifer
|title=How to create a Wikipedia page for a person, place, company, or any notable topic
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-create-a-wikipedia-page?r=US&IR=T
|newspaper=[[Business Insider]]
|date=November 25, 2020
|access-date=November 26, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Unfortunately, while the platform is open and collaborative, you can't just create a page for anything. Wikipedia has notability requirements — mainly that the subject of a new page must have been written about in verifiable publications such as books, magazines, or academic journals, and not previously written about on Wikipedia.
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*{{cite news
|last=
|first=
|title=Wikipedia Homepage Exposure For New MPs
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2011/S00195/wikipedia-homepage-exposure-for-new-mps.htm
|newspaper=[[Scoop (website)|Scoop]]
|date=November 25, 2020
|access-date=November 26, 2020
|language=en
|quote=[[53rd New Zealand Parliament|The new Parliament]] will have its first sitting day on Wednesday and Aotearoa will welcome 42 new MPs. Wikipedia will mark this event by featuring 19 of those new MPs on its homepage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) from 1pm on Wednesday for 24 hours.
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*{{cite news
|last=Cope
|first=Rebecca
|title=This is the surprising person The Crown viewers Googled the most after this series
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/margaret-thatcher-most-searched-for-person-on-the-crown
|newspaper=[[Tatler]]
|date=November 25, 2020
|access-date=November 26, 2020
|language=en
|quote=That said, audiences still find themselves Googling the storylines of each episode hungrily after watching, with Wikipedia reporting a surge in activity on its site in the past week.
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*{{cite news
|last=Benjakob
|first=Omer
|title=On Wikipedia, Israel Is Losing the Battle Against the Word 'Apartheid'
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-on-wikipedia-israel-is-losing-the-battle-against-the-word-apartheid-1.9330590
|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]
|date=November 26, 2020
|access-date=November 27, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia has had an article on “[[Israel and the apartheid analogy]]” for almost 15 years. However, editors active in this arena told Haaretz that [[West Bank bantustans|the new entry]] directly comparing Israel’s control of the West Bank to the [[Bantustan|Black-only enclaves set up in South Africa]] indicates a possible shifting of balance in the encyclopedia, where facts are decided by consensus between different groups of volunteer editors.
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*{{cite news
|last=Still
|first=Jennifer
|title=What is Wikipedia? Here's what you should know about the crowd-sourced and openly edited online encyclopedia
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-wikipedia?r=US&IR=T
|newspaper=Business Insider
|date=November 27, 2020
|access-date=November 27, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Anyone can sign up for a Wikipedia account and create a page about anything, even themselves. Here's everything else you should know before you start using the online encyclopedia.
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*{{cite news
|last=Kovalev
|first=Alexey
|title=Unreliable sources
|trans-title=
|url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/11/27/unreliable-sources
|newspaper=[[Meduza]]
|date=November 27, 2020
|access-date=November 28, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Before U.S. president-elect Joe Biden formally announced [[Antony Blinken]] as his pick for Secretary of State, an anonymous Wikipedia editor took it upon himself to edit Blinken’s Wikipedia page.
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*{{cite news
|last=Mack
|first=Eric
|title=Liberal Bias of Wikipedia Called Out in 5 Studies
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.newsmax.com/us/wikipedia-liberal-activist-website/2020/11/29/id/999156/
|newspaper=[[Newsmax]]
|date=November 29, 2020
|access-date=December 2, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The studies have concluded Wikipedia is even more left-biased than the [[Encyclopedia Britannica]], left-wing indoctrination is pushed harder by leftist editors, liberal media is more pronounced in the mentions on that site...
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*{{cite news
|last=Kauntia
|first=Nishant
|title=The Edit Wars: How Wikipedia earned the ire of the Hindu Right
|trans-title=
|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/media/wikipedia-earned-ire-hindu-right
|newspaper=[[The Caravan]]
|date=November 30, 2020
|access-date=December 9, 2020
|language=en
|quote=The [[Hindu right|Hindu Right]], however, has long been harbouring frustrations against the encyclopedia. In the past year, these frustrations found a voice. Once perceived as an apolitical platform, Wikipedia has now turned into a new front in India's culture wars.
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*{{cite news
|last=Fiorillo
|first=Chiara
|title=Why is Wikipedia asking for money?
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13348098/wikipedia-asking-for-donations/
|newspaper=[[The Sun (United Kingdom)]]
|date=December 1, 2020
|access-date=December 2, 2020
|language=en
|quote=Wikipedia says it needs donations because they do not carry advertisements, therefore they do not have any ad-related revenue.
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* {{cite news
|date=3 December 2020
|access-date=3 December 2020
|title=Govt orders Wikipedia to remove link showing incorrect map of India, says sources
|language=en-IN
|work=[[The Hindu]]
|agency=[[Press Trust of India]]
|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-orders-wikipedia-to-remove-link-showing-incorrect-map-of-india-sources/article33238465.ece
|issn=0971-751X
|quote=They added that the government can take legal action against the company, including blocking access to the entire platform, in case it does not make the changes.
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*{{cite news
|last=Lehman
|first=Olive
|title=Wikipedian-in-residence discusses information activism on Wikipedia with online talk
|trans-title=
|url=https://thegatewayonline.ca/2020/12/wikipedian-in-residence-discusses-information-activism-on-wikipedia-with-online-talk/
|newspaper=[[The Gateway (student magazine)]]
|date=3 December 2020
|access-date=4 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=The online talk discussed how the reliable source guidelines of Wikipedia act as barriers for racialized, feminist, and minority voices.
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*{{cite news
|last=Harrison
|first=Stephen
|title=Twitter Wants to Use Wikipedia to Help Determine Who Gets a Blue Checkmark
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|url=https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/twitter-checkmark-verification-wikipedia-notability.html
|newspaper=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]
|date=4 December 2020
|access-date=5 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=Now that Twitter has caught onto Wikipedia’s notability guideline, perhaps somebody should teach them [Citation needed].
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|last=Vago
|first=Mike
|title=Here are a few of Wikipedia’s most surprisingly controversial topics
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|url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/few-wikipedia-most-surprisingly-controversial-071000493.html
|newspaper=[[Yahoo! Lifestyle]]
|date=4 December 2020
|access-date=5 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=Over the years, we’ve come across Wikipedia articles that fascinated or amused to some degree, but were too short to write a full column about.
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*{{cite news
|last=Folsom
|first=Geoff
|title=Folsom: Who's Notable (at Least According to Wikipedia)?
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|url=https://www.emissourian.com/local_news/union/folsom-whos-notable-at-least-according-to-wikipedia/article_094e187e-399b-11eb-b528-ebb19c796ffd.html
|newspaper=[[Emissourian.com]]
|date=10 December 2020
|access-date=10 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=You see, I'm the kind of person who, whenever I hear about a high school, I have to go to Wikipedia to see who its “notable alumni” are. I'll even drive by a school in a major city and ask my wife to immediately look up who went there.
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*{{cite news
|last=Shendruk
|first=Amanda
|title=The most-read Wikipedia page on each day of 2020
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|url=https://qz.com/1946765/the-most-read-wikipedia-page-on-each-day-of-2020/
|newspaper=[[Quartz (publication)]]
|date=18 December 2020
|access-date=18 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=While they tend to highlight the events, concerns, and people of the year, there are a few unexpected twists, like ''[[Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood|Johnny Bravo goes to Bollywood]]''. Let’s take a look:
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*{{cite news
|last=Dhondy
|first=Farrukh
|authorlink=Farrukh Dhondy
|title=Researching Wikipedia on the origins of toxic words
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|url=https://www.asianage.com/opinion/columnists/181220/farrukh-dhondy-researching-wikipedia-on-the-origins-of-toxic-words.html
|newspaper=[[The Asian Age]]
|date=18 December 2020
|access-date=19 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=The triviality of what I resort to Wiki for will or may, gentle reader, prompt you to judge me harshly. Today it occurred to me that I had never investigated the origins of the phrase “oopsy daisy”!
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|title=Pakistan threatens Google, Wikipedia over 'sacrilegious content'
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|url=https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-threatens-google-wikipedia-over-sacrilegious-content/a-56061236
|newspaper=[[Deutsche Welle]]
|date=18 December 2020
|access-date=19 December 2020
|language=en
|quote="Complaints were also received regarding hosting of caricatures of Holy Prophet (PBUH) and dissemination of misleading, wrong, deceptive and deceitful information through articles published on Wikipedia portraying [[Mirza Masroor Ahmad]] as a Muslim," the [[Pakistan Telecommunication Authority|PTA]] said in a statement published on its official Twitter handle.
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*{{cite news
|last=Verma
|first=Akarsh
|title=Wikipedia's top read list shows COVID-19 also ruled virtual world in 2020
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|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/wikipedia-s-top-read-list-shows-covid-19-also-ruled-virtual-world-in-2020-1753187-2020-12-25
|newspaper=[[India Today]]
|date=25 December 2020
|access-date=28 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=Here’s a list of the top 10 most read Wikipedia articles in 2020. Take a look:
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*{{cite news
|last=Bhatt
|first=Madhur
|title=Pakistan regulatory body issues notices to Google, Wikipedia for ‘disseminating sacrilegious content’
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|url=https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/12/pakistani-regulatory-body-issues-notices-to-google-wikipedia-for-disseminating-sacrilegious-content/
|newspaper=[[JURIST]]
|date=27 December 2020
|access-date=28 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Saturday issued notices to Google and Wikipedia for “disseminating sacrilegious content” through their platforms.
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*{{cite news
|last=Turner
|first=Amy-Mae
|title=22 facts you never knew about Wikipedia
|trans-title=
|url=https://mashable.com/article/surprising-wikipedia-facts/?europe=true
|newspaper=[[Mashable]]
|date=28 December 2020
|access-date=28 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=21. Wikipedia has an asteroid named after it. The [[274301 Wikipedia]] is a Vestian asteroid orbiting in the inner region of the asteroid belt.
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*{{cite news
|last=
|first=
|title=What was 'most read' on Wikipedia in 2020?
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.geo.tv/latest/326880-what-was-most-read-on-wikipedia-in-the-year-2020
|newspaper=[[Geo News]]
|date=28 December 2020
|access-date=28 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=In 2020, people read the most about the COVID-19 pandemic and the US presidential elections.
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*{{cite news
|last=Wodinsky
|first=Shoshana
|title=2020's Most Popular Wikipedia Pages: Pandemics, Politics, And Parasite
|trans-title=
|url=https://gizmodo.com/2020s-most-popular-wikipedia-pages-pandemics-politics-1845956930
|newspaper=[[Gizmodo]]
|date=28 December 2020
|access-date=30 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=“This is my sixth annual post sharing the list of Wikipedia’s most popular articles of the year” Erhart wrote. “And, as with most things this year, the list was very different.”
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*{{cite news
|last=Stopera
|first=Matt
|title=The Top 40 Most Read Wikipedia Pages Of 2020 Perfectly Capture The Hellscape That Was 2020
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/most-read-wikipedia-pages
|newspaper=[[BuzzFeed]]
|date=29 December 2020
|access-date=30 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=40. [[Shooting of Breonna Taylor]]
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*{{cite news
|last=Jackson
|first=Peter
|title=Finding facts in a post-truth world
|trans-title=
|url=https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/canada/finding-facts-in-a-post-truth-world-535664/
|newspaper=[[The Chronicle Herald]]
|date=29 December 2020
|access-date=30 December 2020
|language=en
|quote=There was a time when the user-generated site Wikipedia was considered an unreliable source of information. Times have changed.
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