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Wikipedia, one of those who put up the photo, argued it didn't have to take down the picture because Slater, having not actually shot the photo, didn't own the rights
George Bush is the most edited Wikipedia entry after 15 years with almost 46,000 edits
What Wales doesn't want you to know
Wikipedia editor Calamondin12 has found the longest-running hoax article in the online encyclopaedia's history.
federal staff have edited more than 5,500 articles on Wikipedia since 2003 – 1,500 in the past five years – mostly concerning the Swiss air force, the Swiss intelligence service and asylum issues.
The Court of Appeals (CA) defended its use of online sources, particularly Wikipedia, in relation to its ruling on one of the worst mining disasters in the Philippines.
"Why not join us?" he adds. "We've already gotten the Wikipedia page [virtual office] partially re-written (but not public yet), and we're trying our darnedest to be neutral.
Several hundred million revisions or contributions don't fall together as a high-quality encyclopedia just by accident.
Because the data is completely free, Angolans are hiding large files in Wikipedia articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia site (Angola is a former Portuguese colony)—sometimes concealing movies in JPEG or PDF files. They're then using a Facebook group to direct people to those files, creating a robust, completely free file sharing network.
A spokesperson for Rep. David Jolly's Senate campaign has admitted to editing the Florida Republican's Wikipedia page
Wikipedia reaches almost one-third of the total mobile population each month
[Canadian] Civil servants are permitted to edit Wikipedia entries on job if pages are 'work related'
Not the least of Wikipedia's wonders is to have done away with the drudgery that used to be synonymous with the writing of reference works. An army of anonymous, tech-savvy people – mostly young, mostly men – have effortlessly assembled and organized a body of knowledge unparalleled in human history.
More Wikipedia edits originate in Hong Kong than in all of Africa combined.
The Seattle office of the Online Computer Library Center has been awarded $250,000 as one of the winners of the Knight News Challenge on Libraries for a project aimed at making library resources more accessible to Wikipedia editors.
In sum, more than 14,000 students have created or edited 35,000 Wikipedia articles as part of a program run by the Wikipedia Education Foundation.
On Thursday morning, Pereira was removed from the group's Wikipedia page.
This would all justify remembering the Meow Wars today, but its page was wiped from Wikipedia after being nominated for deletion several times. The argument is made, fairly, that there are no objective sources: There is no "One True History of Meow" because everyone involved was a likely a troll. The debate directly questions the value of archiving online history, and even of writing–like this column–which examines internet culture. Several Wikipedians argued to preserve it: "This isn't just another flamewar," one member wrote. "This is the flamewar."
It appears most of the controversial One Nation party's policy on medicinal cannabis has been copied from Wikipedia, the internet's free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Listeners' asked us to champion a pioneering nurse called Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, as there was very little information on her on the internet. Now there is after one listener created a Wikipedia page for her. Read about Kofoworola Abeni Pratt on Wikipedia here.
It's a neat way to make actually exploring Wikipedia more fun and relevant to every day life, rather than just stumbling upon articles you're curious about on your own.
It's an abstract reinvention of Wikipedia's knowledge banks, but it's surprisingly useful to couch the site's billions of articles in a more visual form
Edits to articles act like magnets to attract other editors, and the edits performed by the new editors attract even more edits, and so on.
If Wikipedia is meant to be "the sum of the world's knowledge," it should be written and edited by a diverse set of voices. The quickest path toward that is the most obvious: finding more women and minority Wikipedia editors.
...but alongside Google Translate (with 104 languages) it makes Wikipedia one of the most ambitious language projects today.
Over on Wikipedia, editors have been engaged in an edit war, after the page was changed to say that the anthropomorphic frog is associated with Trump, white nationalism, and the alt-right.
Wikipedia includes so little content about indigenous peoples that the foundation that runs the encyclopedia is inviting people to help improve its coverage.
on my Wikipedia page, one of the first things is my identity. I hate that.
Part of that quest was creating the WikiProject Medicine group, where 320 like-minded editors work on the site's health content. Heilman estimates about half are medical professionals.
NEVER mind the fact the NSW Electoral Commission has yet to declare a winner, Wikipedia had the Orange byelection signed, sealed and delivered to Phil Donato on Thursday. Wikipedia's page for the Orange electorate, which can be updated by the general public, had the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers candidate listed as the incumbent and "the party's first lower house seat at the 2016 Orange byelection".
Wikipedia won't often steer you wrong even on controversial subjects. You should obviously approach politics on Wikipedia with skepticism, but sections on touchy topics like Donald Trump's White House transition, or Hillary Clinton's health are refreshingly devoid of conspiracy theories and hasty conclusions.
According to the BBC, only 17 percent of the English-language Wikipedia biographies were about women and just 15 percent of Wikipedia's volunteer editors are female.
Highest number of entries about women added to Wikipedia in a single event, with more than 400 new or updated profiles
The gamechanging inventor Margaret E Knight is summed up in only 500 words on the site, where men make up 83% of notable profiles – and most of the editors too