A look at debates by Wikipedia editors over citing Fox News, deemed a “marginally reliable” source for politics and science and now cited in 16,000+ articles
Samuel Breslow / Slate : Tweets: @sdkb42 and @sdkb42 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Samuel Breslow / @sdkb42 : Wikipedia is built on its sources. And if those sources can include @FoxNews, its view of t...
A look at Wikimedia's Wikifunctions, expected to launch in 2022, which could help partially unify information across the 323 individual-language Wikipedias
Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. — For instance, Jasenovac … Tweets: @harrisonstephen , @bhecht , @slate , and @vrandezo Tweets: Stephen Ha...
A look at the decade long struggle to bring the script of Tulu, an Indian language, into Unicode, and the problem of keeping languages alive in the digital age
Varsha Bansal / Rest of World : Tweets: @xor , @restofworld , @mvzelenks , @restofworld , @restofworld , @cengizyar , @dlberes , @raju , @varshaabansal , and @restofworld Tweets: Parker Higgins / @xo...
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain
Translate this page; This page contains changes which are not marked for translation. Liam Wyatt / Diff : Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Wikipedia Will Star...
A look at the raging debate inside Wikipedia, where neutrality is prized above all, on what to call the attack on the Capitol
‘Storming’? ‘Insurrection’? ‘Riot’? ‘Attempted coup’? On Wikipedia, where neutrality is prized above all, volunteers are still searching for the words. Tweets: @bkeegan , @fuzheado , @harrymccrack...
2021 is shaping up to be a challenging year for the Wikimedia Foundation, which is finalizing a code of conduct that aims to diversify its community of editors
women, people of color, and queer people—by having them speak out publicly against their abusers and risk retaliation.” https://www.wired.com/... Raju Narisetti / @raju : A challenge in timely impleme...
Wikipedia to protect its main 2020 election page with expanded measures, like stopping new editors from making edits, that it has used to stop COVID-19 misinfo
The encyclopedia is determined to emerge from the insanity of a pandemic and a polarizing election with its information and reputation intact. Tweets: @krmaher , @raju , @backchnnl , @mr_dudders , @ar...
WHO grants Wikipedia free use of its published data, allowing it to be reposted widely in almost 200 languages and starting with COVID-19 information
making its work openly available for reuse, resharing, and importantly, for translations. #openaccess https://www.nytimes.com/... Anusha / @anushaa100 : So proud of this collaboration between @WHO and...
The Wikipedia page of a Bollywood star has become an internet battleground as editors dispute if it should reflect conspiracy theories about his cause of death
Stephen Harrison / Slate : Tweets: @nowme_datta and @harrisonstephen Tweets: Naomi Datta / @nowme_datta : This is a great piece. How Wikipedia was not spared by SSR conspiracy theories. And how edits...
“Neutral point of view” is a core principle of Wikipedia but racial justice protests are sparking debates among contributors on what neutrality actually means
Contributors are rethinking what Wikipedia's commitment to neutrality actually means. Tweets: @brianlzw , @iethics , @rhyslindmark , @futuretensenow , and @wikimedia Tweets: Zewen Liang / @brianlzw : ...