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A sharp drop in Wikipedians, the volunteers who write and edit the online encyclopedia, is a disturbing and inevitable trend, the Toronto man who was once its top contributor said Monday.
When a Wikipedia contributor creates, or significantly improves, an entry, they can add it to the project’s list. January’s list includes 182 entries, most of them new, covering women of the ...
Like it or not, Wikipedia has evolved into a major go-to destination for those in search of knowledge. Whether it’s to swot up on the films of Laurel & Hardy, or discover what E=MC2 really means ...
13. Three Wolf Moon Three Wolf Moon was such an iconic moment in internet culture that Wikipedia has deemed it worthy of its own relatively lengthy entry.
The perils of WikipediaIn an entry below I offer that the citation of a Wikipedia reference is not reliable, and I can't take responsibility if someone changes the entry between my link and your click ...
The software sources the facts needed to write missing entries from a collection of 500 million news articles and feeds them into a system trained to generate biographical entries from past examples.
Wikipedia is everyone’s go-to source. Even scientists. A new study shows how science on Wikipedia may end up forwarding science itself.
For some time now I've been following a Twitter bot that sends out updates every time a known Government of Canada IP address is used to make anonymous edits to Wikipedia entries. Finally, this ...
Last year, for example, Wikipedia temporarily blocked access from some computers assigned to Congress after a series of partisan pranks. In one, the entry on Sen. Robert Byrd was altered to give ...
He explained that Wikipedia entries currently reflect the strengths and expertise of its writers. Entries on USB standards, for example, are far superior to less techie topics such as early ...
Wikipedia already has procedures in place designed to alert readers to potential problems with an entry. For example, one of Wikipedia’s volunteer editors can review an article and tag it as ...