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|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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|title=How 9/11 Shaped Wikipedia
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|url=https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/wikipedia-september-11-breaking-news.html
|newspaper=[[Slate (magazine)]]
|date=November 17, 2020
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|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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|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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|title=CBSA official only consulted Wikipedia on research into national security concerns surrounding Meng Wanzhou
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|url=https://biv.com/article/2020/11/cbsa-official-only-consulted-wikipedia-research-national-security-concerns
|newspaper=[[Business in Vancouver]]
|date=November 18, 2020
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|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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|title=Scientists advising the Government on pandemic lockdown relied on WIKIPEDIA to make predictions
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|url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13238012/scientists-advising-government-lockdown-wikipedia/
|newspaper=[[The Sun (United Kingdom)]]
|date=November 19, 2020
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|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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