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Computers traced back to the New York Police Department’s Internet Protocol (IP) addresses have been aggressively editing the details on the Wikipedia entries of many of the city’s most high ...
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 ...
For example, Wikipedia teaches us that Boston’s four major sports teams have won 32 championships, more than any city other than New York (which totally doesn’t count because they have at ...
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.
When big events happen like the Japan tsunami, and the 2011 Tucson shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, entries pop up immediately. But for many, the best part of Wikipedia is its extensiveness.
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 ...
WASHINGTON — Angry Internet users barraged an entry about U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan on Wikipedia.org after The Sun’s report that Meehan’s staff had deleted unflattering facts, and th… ...
For example, entries about Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in March 2014, differ depending on the language. DW's fact-check team analyzed the German, Russian and Ukrainian entries.
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 ...
A Wikipedia user tags a page on Wikipedia as a candidate for deletion. We upload all pages which have these tags to a temporary store. As of May 2008, this store holds about 10 GiB of data.
Web encyclopedia says church -- and critics -- made self-serving edits. May 29, 2009 — -- Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia anyone can edit, has decided to block contributions from ...
Reworking Wikipedia health entries is not a trivial task. A 2014 study found about 25,000 pages of health-related articles in the English language. That number is now up to 32,000, Heilman says.