As the recent paid editing scandal on Wikipedia shows, companies will pay people significant sums to edit the open-source encyclopedia. The practice is frowned upon by Wikipedians, as it raises ...

Jada Franklin has used Wikipedia more times than she can count. But she's never been on this side of the controls, writing and editing entries. Until now. It's a little before 11 a.m. on a weekday, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The English version of Wikipedia is creeping closer and closer to 7 ...

This Spring saw a deluge of Wikipedia edit-a-thon events. Spurred partially by outrage over Amanda Filipacci’s New York Times blog post that Wikipedia editors had been quietly moving American women ...

Tensions are brewing at Wikipedia over the war in Gaza as volunteer editors have launched “edit wars” to manipulate the slant ...

On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia’s most prolific medical editors, was standing watch over the online encyclopedia’s entry for a back procedure ...

January 9, 2023 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google There’s no mincing words here: The backlog of Wikipedia articles that need attention is almost unfathomably long ...

Mahatma Gandhi was famously said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” The anti-colonial nationalist/Indian civil rights leader successfully starved his way into leading a path for ...

The Anti-Defamation League has paused a project in which its staff members edited Wikipedia using pseudonyms after coming under fire from Wikipedia editors for potentially violating rules regarding ...

Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit." Unless you want to edit the entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China or Christina Aguilera. Wikipedia's come-one, come-all ...

A map of the United States shows the percentage of households editing Wikipedia by county. (Analysis of Wikipedia IP editor activity) But as part of my research in producing Print Wikipedia, I ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. At a Monday press conference commemorating Wikipedia’s 20 th birthday, Jimmy Wales joked, “We were never as ...