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While the likes of Game of Thrones and The Crown were among the most viewed Wiki pages last year, the real intrigue lay in the articles that caused the most dispute
Last month, these enterprising editors attempted to delete the entire "Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party" page from the online encyclopedia.": "Having failed to remove the evidence of Labour's anti-Semitism outright, the activist editors moved instead to obfuscate it. A proposal was put forward to rename the page "Labour party (UK) antisemitism allegations," thus casting doubt on the existence of this well-documented prejudice in the party."; "Tellingly, the word "anti-Semitism" does not appear on Jeremy Corbyn's own extensive Wikipedia page, despite the fact that it has been a defining issue of his leadership tenure.
Fried, himself a Wikipedia editor since high school, knew it would get contentious. He flew back to campus from the Peach Bowl, checked the 2017 UCF Knights football team page, saw the disruption (at one point there was an edit every 97 seconds) and submitted a request for an administrator to block modifications from unregistered users.
Nearly every car has a page on Wikipedia, but the one for the Honda Ridgeline stands above most... It's deeply nerdy and lovely and wonderful. When I discovered this page, I had to know who was behind it all.
Where would the Zionist movement be without Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion? Where would the Hebrew language – a key force in cultivating Jewish national sentiment – be without the witty words of Sholem Aleichem or the army of neologisms forged by Eliezer Ben Yehuda? And where would the Jewish people be, of course, without ... Donald J. Trump?
My aim is to explore the representations of two of the largest sub-Saharan African cities, Lagos and Kinshasa, in their respective Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia has been described as the encyclopaedia anyone can edit, suggesting that it is open to multiple perspectives on any particular topic.
Okayama Prefectural Assembly members submitted reports with ... many of [which] included passages identical to those on Wikipedia, while more than half contained the same typographical error, suggesting the assembly members may have copied and pasted sections of their reports from internet sources...
Our analyses demonstrated that Wikipedia articles related to neurosurgical topics are associated with higher grade levels for reading and also below the expected levels of clear communications for patients.
A look back on five of the biggest cases of political bias that gripped the site in 2017 should discourage anyone from looking to Wikipedia as a source for reliable and neutral information on the political topics of the day.
Hard to miss, indeed. The pithy epizeuxis debuted in August and has spread across the lips of American masses. It was briefly listed as the official motto for Ames, Iowa, on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia searches do not reliably reflect its actual epidemiology. Celebrities with MS acting as testimonials might effectively increase public knowledge on MS.
Once you read the movie's Wikipedia page, which I presume was written by the filmmakers themselves, it's clear Tunnicliffe came up with a much larger mythology than he was able to fully convey onscreen. He himself plays a character named the Auditor, whom you might take for another Cenobite. But you'd be wrong! In fact, "he is part of a faction known as the Stygian Inquisition, who separate from the Order of the Gash (only one of many orders in Hell). He shares the faction with the Assessor, the Jury, the Butcher and the Surgeon. Other members, named the Bone Collectors, the Seamstress, the Sentinel, the Order of Exudation, and the Effluviam were set for introduction but were removed for budgetary reasons."
In theory, Jewish settlements in the West Bank constitute one of Israel's seven administrative districts. However, the so-called "Judea and Samaria District" may not actually be a district, or at least does not have the official status of one, according to a recent discovery by Hebrew Wikipedia editors.
There are Wikipedia sites in 300 different languages, with 46 million articles accessed by 1.4 billion unique devices every single month. An army of 200,000 editors and contributors patrol this repository of online knowledge every day.
A new initiative aimed at bringing Wikipedia to the ultra-Orthodox community is making waves in Israel due to what many take to be the crude manner it has edited out content deemed unsuitable for the community.
it is clear that an "editing war" erupted after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempted to explain the rise in the Engel's coefficient for those living in Japan in a Jan. 31 House of Councillors Budget Committee meeting. While one side sought to alter the entry to reflect the prime minister's explanation, the other side tried to block their efforts. The battle went for a total of 19 rounds, according to the editing history log.
In the days after the Parkland shooting, users flocked to Wikipedia to learn about guns. When users searched for "AR-15" — the style of gun used during the shooting — they were directed to the page for the "Colt AR-15." The page was viewed more than 200,000 times on the day after Parkland, a hundred times its usual traffic. But those users didn't find much information about mass shootings or political efforts. In fact, the Colt AR-15 page made no mention of gun control at all, instead spending over a thousand words describing the technical details of the gun's various parts.
A group of pro-gun Wikipedia editors tried to hide the true number of mass shootings associated with the AR-15 rifle in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.
The crowdsourced encyclopedia, in theory, offers a solution to the problem of representation; no single writer has control over the way in which a subject is presented. But still: They had to choose a single image to lead the human entry. And whatever photo they went with would inevitably leave out most of the diversity and cultural nuance that makes humanity beautiful and interesting. At first, they chose the Pioneer plaque, which stayed in its privileged position for about five years. But the editors weren't satisfied. Hundreds of pages of discussion reveal a group of people desperately trying to understand their own ignorance, and make amends for the known unknowns.
With more than five million articles, it is the world's go-to source for all kinds of information. However, the free encyclopedia's openness and anonymity leave it vulnerable to manipulation by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and racist academics seeking a wider audience for extreme views.
It is not clear how the Wikipedia unit will help during these kinds of breaking news events, since it will depend on YouTube being on top of new conspiracy theories emerging on the platform...
Google-owned YouTube is trying to combat the amount of misinformation spread on its site, announcing that it will link videos that promote conspiracy theories to "fact-based" sites like Wikipedia pages.
YouTube said Wikipedia links are just the first step in solving the problem and that it plans to do more, but it seems a little unfair to take advantage of a free resource when Google itself could be trying harder to flag or identify disinformation.
At SXSW yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform would start adding information from Wikipedia to conspiracy-related videos within the next few weeks.
The truth about the complicated racial legacies of both parties — and the Klan's influence on them in 1924 — has been perniciously contorted by activists deploying digital tricks, abetted (often unwittingly) by good-faith actors such as academics, journalists and volunteer Wikipedia editors. What's left is a fake historical "fact" that has been "verified" by powerful digital properties such as Google, Facebook, Wikipedia and various online publishers without being true. Which reflects one actual truth: Now, not only can partisans and malicious actors manufacture fake news, but they can falsify history as well.
Given that Wikipedia is still working out its own fact checking procedures, it may not be the cure-all YouTube thinks it is.
But the fact that YouTube sees Wikipedia as a reliable source is also, in a sense, a total validation of Wikipedia's mission. A encyclopedia, open to edits from anyone, could easily have been misused and abused. Instead, it's become the default place to find facts online.
Thirty-five percent of Wikipedia users sampled across the 14 languages in this study said they were on the site to find a specific fact. Thirty-three percent said they were looking for an overview of a topic, while 32 percent said they wanted to get information on a topic in-depth.
So I contacted Philip Freeman to review the Wikipedia entry. Freeman is a professor at Pepperdine University and the leading scholar on the historical St. Patrick. Freeman wrote back: "I looked over the Wiki page and actually think it's very good. It separates history from legends well. No suggestions on my part."
This week, however, Wikipedia's volunteer editors and the nonprofit that makes its work possible, the Wikimedia Foundation, suddenly found themselves in the news, tasked once again with providing a ground-level truth for a platform unwilling to provide one of its own.
The online technology magazine The Verge published the results of its investigation last week regarding the Wikipedia article on the AR-15 rifle, a current focus of the gun-control debate in the United States. The story, by Russel Brandom, showed how a small and dedicated group of gun enthusiasts managed to shape the article to fit their agenda, in a case that sheds light on how political interests groups can easily coalesce on Wikipedia.
YouTube can't just absolve itself of responsibility by pointing the problem away from itself and in Wikipedia's direction...
...YouTube's chief executive, Susan Wojcicki, announced that the company she leads would enlist Wikipedia's help to deal with the proliferation of conspiracy theories and misinformation on its platform.
Google has argued it doesn't play as big a role in spreading fake news as Facebook or Twitter. This is more than a little disingenuous.
From Twitter to Facebook, businesses now have plenty of avenues to drive torrents of traffic, generate tons of sales-ready leads and boost overall revenue. But here's the BIG QUESTION: Should businesses use Wikipedia for driving traffic, leads and sales? The ANSWER is a resounding YES!
We the constituents of Wikimedia, started an ambitious discussion about our collective future. We reflected on our past sixteen years together and imagined the impact we could have in the world in the next decades. Our aim was to identify a common strategic direction that would unite and inspire people across our movement on our way to 2030, and help us make decisions.
After media again highlighted falsehoods on Croatian Wikipedia, it removed a claim that Adolf Hitler attacked Poland in 1939 because Poles committed genocide against Germans in the country.
After revealing election-time operations by Russian-linked accounts, Facebook enlists Wikipedia to kill what it dubs as junk news – but is the crowdsourced encyclopedia enough?
Facebook is launching new tools to help users better assess news sources — by using the crowdsourced Wikipedia.
But there are several issues with this effort to provide users with more context. For one, the information about the publisher comes from Wikipedia. While the internet encyclopedia has become an increasingly reliable source of information, it's still crowdsourced, and can be edited to suit one bias or another.
Facebook is displaying a link to Wikipedia's smear-job description of Breitbart News next to all Breitbart articles shared on the site. The linked Wikipedia article describes Breitbart as a "far-right site" that publishes "falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and intentionally misleading stories."
Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort authorised a secret media operation on behalf of Ukraine's former president featuring "black ops", "placed" articles in the Wall Street Journal and US websites and anonymous briefings against Hillary Clinton.... The strategies included: Proposing to rewrite Wikipedia entries to smear a key opponent of the then Ukrainian president.
Breitbart News has declared war on Wikipedia, following Facebook's introduction of a new feature that uses the free encyclopedia to combat "fake news" being spread on the social media site. The Facebook tool, launched last week, poses arguably the greatest test in years to the volunteer-run online encyclopedia, constituting a massive threat to the internet's largest and ostensibly most trusted source of free knowledge.
An eagle-eyed Reddit user has discovered that Mocha Uson's Wikipedia entry now has a list of all the fake news and misleading information she has shared on her social media accounts.
Dubbed as the "fake news queen" by netizens, Uson has quite a record of fake news and misinformation, and Wikipedia seems to be keeping a list.
Presidential Communications Operations Office Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson's Wikipedia page has been edited to include a list of incidents of supposed false information attributed to her that circulated on social media.
The Wikipedia page of Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson has been locked down to prevent further revisions, following repeated attempts to amend or completely delete a subsection that recorded instances when Uson spread false news.
The Wikipedia page of Communications Assistant Secretary Margaux "Mocha" Uson is now locked from those who plan to edit it due to "persistent vandalism."
In 2017, Wales turned his attention to a new project, "WikiTribune", a news website, which was set up to promote what it calls "evidence-based journalism" in an attempt to combat fake news.
Dubai: Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, is running a monthlong photography campaign "Wiki Loves Emirates" in the UAE this April.
Using the circadian clock field as a case study, we discuss this scientific field's representation on Wikipedia. We traced the changes made to the articles for "Circadian clock" and "Circadian rhythm" and reviewed the debates that informed them over a span of a decade, using Wikipedia's native and third-party tools.
The situation shows how much major media outlets have come to rely on Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit that employs less than 300 people.
Wikipedia puts the world's collected knowledge within the reach of just a few mouse clicks. And now, thanks to a new feature called Page Previews, it takes even fewer.
Wikipedia added a useful new feature earlier this week: page previews. The Wikimedia Foundation says that it's "one of the largest changes to desktop Wikipedia made in recent years," and provides readers with a pop-up window that provides a bit of additional context for the article behind the link.
Anyone can edit Wikipedia. It says so right on the front page of the website, among the most visited on the planet. However, the definition of "anyone" gets iffy when a public employee uses public equipment to scrub from a Wikipedia page unfavorable references about his boss, who happens to be running for re-election.
According to Wikipedia, any external relationship its contributors hold – including a relationship with cryptocurrency – could present a conflict of interest.
In 2013, the artist Adrian Piper decided she didn't like her Wikipedia page. It was full of inaccuracies, she felt, and fell far beneath the editorial standards of a "real" encyclopedia or an academic journal.
Fallout and Skyrim director Todd Howard has had a Wikipedia page on lockdown for a quite a while. Over the last 24 hours, that lock temporarily lifted - and gamers made sure to take advantage.
Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia exactly a year ago, citing a "coordinated smear campaign" against Turkey by the free online encyclopedia. However, Haaretz can reveal there were four specific articles that got it banned, including one relating to the president's son-in-law.
Founded in 2001, Wikipedia is on the verge of adulthood. It's the world's fifth-most popular website, with 46 million articles in 300 languages, while having less than 300 full-time employees.
Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, I quickly deleted the Mexican army general's name, Ignacio Zaragoza, and replaced it with "Jimmy Lovrien."
When the Turkish government suddenly banned Wikipedia in late April last year, it came as little surprise to many people in the country. Access to platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and WhatsApp have been periodically restricted in Turkey numerous times since 2014, particularly after tumultuous events like mass demonstrations, suicide bomb attacks, or the failed coup attempt in July 2016. What's strange is that the ban stayed. As of this Sunday, Wikipedia has been blocked in the country for a full year.
The opposition İYİ (Good) Party on April 30 vowed to host the "reopening of Wikipedia," which has been banned in Turkey for over a year, a day after snap elections on June 24.
A group of Whitehorse volunteers learned to create Wikipedia pages about Yukon First Nations people, events and culture to ensure more Indigenous content was available on one of the most visited websites in the world.
A single academic paper, published by three Australian researchers in 2007, has been cited by Wikipedia editors over 2.8 million times—the next most popular work only shows up a little more than 21,000. And the researchers behind it didn't have a clue.
"Your grammar is frankly awful," said one editor while discussing filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's box. "This is just another throwaway, unreliable, unattributed pile of stinking horseshit," said another editor during a dispute about actor Cary Grant's box. Foul language flew. The arguments spiraled out of control. So another editor brought the matter to the online encyclopedia's top jurists.
An academic paper on global climate zones written by three Australians more than a decade ago has been named the most cited source on Wikipedia, having being referenced more than 2.8m times.
A battle over the use of macrons on the Wikipedia page for a small town in Kāpiti is sparking hot debate online, even from people who don't live there.
Within hours Hayward's Wikipedia had been strafed and apparently favourable references removed. Former ambassador Craig Murray is another who claims to have come under 'obsessive attack' with his page subject to 107 detrimental changes over three days. The journalist Neil Clark has a similar story about amendments and alterations.
The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes — and many of the most popular works are referenced more times in the online encyclopaedia than they are in the scientific literature.
A nonprofit with grand ambitions of setting up a library on the Moon is planning to send the entire English archive of Wikipedia to the lunar surface sometime within the next couple of years.
The mysterious 'Philip Cross' has raised the ire of Kremlin-backed media and far leftists, who accuse him of targeting their Wikipedia pages – even going as far as to offer a reward to anyone who can reveal his identity.
Wikipedia is open for improvement by anyone around the world and should be open to editors in Turkey, the Wikimedia Foundation has stated in a letter addressed to the government of Turkey, where the website has been banned for over one year.
Wikipedia editor Philip Cross is still waging war against the left. Some of those targeted by his vexatious edits have reported patterns between him and Times columnist Oliver Kamm.
Between 3:24 p.m. on April 27 and 5:24 a.m. on April 28 — or a total of 14 hours — a so-called editing war erupted on the Wikipedia page of Vice President Leni Robredo.
Among the jokes being shared was an 'update' to the Ambien Wikipedia page to include new 'side effects' to the sleep aid.
'We regret that vandalism on Wikipedia briefly appeared on our search results,' Google tweeted on Thursday in response to California congressman and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
After search results listed Nazism as the ideology of the California Republican Party, Google pointed the finger at Wikipedia. Wikimedia, the company behind Wikipedia, says "vandalism" is to blame.
Rosanna Brown and Nikki Katz host the "6 Degrees of Wiki" podcast, an online talk show that uses Wikipedia, the popular encyclopedic website with more than 6.5 million English-language entries, to connect seemingly unrelated topics in six steps.
Wikimedia's free online encyclopedia Wikipedia locked Reham Khan's page after more than eight attempts were made to vandalise and destroy the journalist's online presence.
Article 13 gets Wikipedia coming and going: not only does it create opportunities for unscrupulous or incompetent people to block the sharing of Wikipedia's content beyond its bounds, it could also require Wikipedia to filter submissions to the encyclopedia and its surrounding projects, like Wikimedia Commons. The drafters of Article 13 have tried to carve Wikipedia out of the rule, but thanks to sloppy drafting, they have failed: the exemption is limited to "noncommercial activity". Every file on Wikipedia is licensed for commercial use.
Hrishikesh Kanitkar, who played 34 ODIs and two Tests for India towards the end of the 90s, has had his Wikipedia profile page compromised with abusive reference to his name.
Funny stuff underway on convicted felon Jon Woods' Wikipedia page. Currently, no mention can be found there that he was convicted of taking kickbacks in the Eccelsia College scandal. Lots of mention of the supposed conflicts of people involved in his prosecution.
But did you know that only 17 per cent of Wikipedia's biographies are about women? It's a woefully inaccurate reflection of women's achievements - and it has to change. That's why, during this year's London Tech Week, which starts today, I have set up an 'Edit-a-thon' at Bloomberg's office in the capital to try and help redress the balance.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan penned an op-ed published Tuesday in which he argued there are not enough Wikipedia biographies about women or females editing the free online encyclopedia.
SADIQ Khan has been blasted for demanding Wikipedia close their "gender gap" - as another night of violent crime took place in London this week. Apprentice winner Michelle Dewbury called out the Mayor for his pledge to tackle the firm's unrepresentative biographies on its website, where just 17 per cent are about women.
Wikipedia is the world's largest, open repository of general information, but it is also a battleground.... Occasionally, this leads to "edit wars" in which Wikipedians go back and forth editing and re-editing a disputed piece of information (e.g., was Chopin Polish, French, Polish-French, or French-Polish?). This extremely prime internet beef can go on for years.
When Ira Matetsky '84 started editing articles on Wikipedia, he never expected that he would one day receive a shout-out on The Colbert Report.
In her new book, Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (ALA Editions) Merrilee Proffitt, a Senior Program Officer at OCLC and author of the new book, looks at how librarians today are connecting with Wikipedia.
A follow-up investigation by Haaretz reveals that Larson, a self-proclaimed "anarcho-capitalist" in his late 30s, who boasted online about having raped his ex-wife, and who served a one-year prison term for making death threats against President George W. Bush, also maintained a long-time presence on Wikipedia under a slew of different usernames – all of which were eventually banned.
Online propagandists stoke violence, data brokers sway elections, and our most intimate personal information is for sale to the highest bidder. Faced with these difficulties, big tech is increasingly turning to Wikipedia for support.
'Philip Cross' has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages. But in the process he's angered anti-war activists and critics of British and Western foreign policy, who claim he's been biased against them.
Cross has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages, the results of which have angered a wide range of people, who claim he's been biased against them.
Given the increased visibility of Wikipedia pages, it's conceivable that vandals could flock to the platform in order to troll multiple platforms with one edit
Nielsen's Google biography and Wikipedia link describes her as a 'a notorious child abuser currently serving as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.'
Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, has unceremoniously added this shameful chapter of American history to its lists of concentration camps.
A fierce battle is underway on Wikipedia after its "List of concentration and internment camps" article was updated to include the detention centers currently being used to house the children of undocumented immigrants arrested on the U.S. border.
Bookended by Guantanamo Bay and Vietnamese "political reeducation centers," the American detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border now appear on Wikipedia's list of concentration camps.
Wikipedia has a glaring gender disparity when it comes to editors. Less than 10% of them are women. In an effort to improve coverage of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center has held "Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon" workshops this year to teach local residents how they can contribute to the site.
Ocasio-Cortez defeated 56-year-old Joseph Crowley, a man who served ten terms and was the chair of the House Democratic Caucus. The weird part? Ocasio-Cortez didn't even have a Wikipedia page on Monday. But she has one now.
Americans are more overwhelmed than ever by the news landscape, but one researcher hopes a small step will help readers evaluate sources: creating Wikipedia pages for 1,000 local news organizations.
Wikipedia is appealing to its users to swing a knife-edge vote in the European Parliament – even though the crowdsourced encyclopaedia itself won a specific exemption from the legal changes the EU has proposed (PDF).
In the runup to the vote, the Italian, Spanish, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, French and Portuguese versions of Wikipedia have blacked out and replaced their pages with notes describing the directives and asking Wikipedia users to write to their MEPs.
Wikipedia's Italian and Spanish language versions have temporarily shut off access to their respective versions of the free online encyclopedia in Europe to protest against controversial components of a copyright reform package ahead of a key vote in the EU parliament tomorrow.
Wikipedia's Spanish, Italian, and Polish language versions blacked out in protest against new EU copyright reforms being voted upon on Thursday.
Wikipedia went down in at least three countries on Wednesday (July 4) in a protest at an upcoming European Parliament vote on a highly disputed law that could make online platforms legally liable for copyrighted material put on the web by users.
Italian Wikipedia blocked readers from its pages on Tuesday in protest over the future of EU online copyright law.
When conducting research for his Master's thesis in 2015, researcher Daniel Chong found that more than 60 percent of Malaysians read the English edition of Wikipedia as opposed to those in Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese.
Last week, a Wikipedia user deleted the section out of U.S. House candidate Lisa Brown's biography claiming that, 'in 1993, Brown voted in favor of one of the largest tax increases in the state's history.' That user? Brown's husband, local attorney Brian McClatchey.
But Wade has another, more unusual method to increase the representation of women in science: she writes Wikipedia articles about women scientists. One every day.
The Wikipedia page for Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana appears to have been tampered with, with it stating that the minister has little understanding of the department he controls.
The Telegraph found that 17 Wikipedia articles about prominent UK technology companies and investors have been erased in recent months.
Wikipedia is a vast, vast place. And, amidst all of the pages for TV shows, actors, books, and historical events, there are some Wikipedia pages that are a bit... well, explainably unexplainable.
Former CIA Director John Brennan's Wikipedia page was edited to describe the ex-spy chief in unflattering terms one day after he criticized President Trump for the statements he made that undermined his own intelligence officials.
While the myth of the 'clean Wehrmacht' has long been debunked in academic circles, one of the problems in changing the popular perception has been online representations, such as Wikipedia.
Academics have traditionally distrusted Wikipedia, citing the inaccuracies that arise from its communally edited design and lamenting students' tendency to sometimes plagiarize assignments from it. Now, Davis said, higher education and Wikipedia don't seem like such strange bedfellows. At conferences these days, "everyone's like, 'Oh, Wikipedia, of course you guys are here.'"
Wikipedia contributors are few in Africa. The custodians of the free online encyclopedia and other Wiki resources are gathered in South Africa to talk about "decolonizing the internet."
Among the changes were attempts to expunge Butina's page of potentially incriminating information about her ties to Alexander Torshin, a Russian central bank official on whose behalf Butina was allegedly attempting to influence and infiltrate U.S. political organizations.
For a few hours on Sunday, the Republican lawmaker from Utah was dead at the age of 83, according to Wikipedia.
Jess Wade is a scientist on a mission. She wants every woman who has achieved something impressive in science to get the prominence and recognition they deserve – starting with a Wikipedia entry.
The Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project has more than 120 volunteer editors from around the world … collectively responsible for some of the site's most heavily trafficked articles on topics like scientology, UFOs, and vaccines.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which manages Wikipedia, just released its ninth Transparency Report, which sheds light on the efforts to defend the website from any sort of censorship and user privacy invasion during the first half of 2018.
A Wikipedia editor placed one of the most influential libertarian Republicans on a list of "American White Supremacists" for three weeks before it was removed Wednesday.
When she's not working in a physics lab, one London researcher is making sure women in science get the recognition they deserve. And she's doing it one Wikipedia article at a time.
Thanks to its reliance on information from Wikipedia, the top Google search result for 'leader of the free world' is not the President of the United States, with whom the term is normally associated, but crisis-engulfed German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Quicksilver uses machine-learning algorithms to scour news articles and scientific citations to find notable scientists missing from Wikipedia, and then write fully sourced draft entries for them.
New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong's Wikipedia page includes no mention of her racist tweets that resurfaced after her new position with the newspaper was announced, apparently because activist editors for the free online encyclopedia won't allow any mention of her tweets.
I still think Wikipedia is, on balance, a good thing. This is even though its mysterious ruling council of Wikicrats have now banned me from taking any part in editing it.
What we know now is that Sarah Jeong has some powerful allies on the internet, even at Wikipedia, and they are out there, just waiting for someone not to notice.
The Tripura government on Monday denied that chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb was born in Bangladesh and asserted he was born in Tripura, contrary to the entry on his Wikipedia page.
PTI chief and prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan is not the only one with his own Wikipedia page; his dogs have one too.
The culture wars are coming for the best utopian project of the early internet. Can it survive the informational anarchy that's disrupted the rest of media?
After repeated removals led to the page being locked, leftist editors rigged discussion about the controversy, leading to a summary favoring Jeong.
Imran Khan's dogs have been given their own Wikipedia page after his victory in the Pakistani elections. The online encyclopedia said that the page was added after a surge in the number of searches for the prime minister-elect's pets.
The software scans news stories to find overlooked figures, and even writes a draft article about them.
Plenty of prominent scientists have Wikipedia pages. But while checking to see if someone specific has a Wikipedia page is a quick Google search away, figuring out who should be on Wikipedia but isn't—and then writing an entry for him or her—is much trickier.
A new AI program claims it can fix Wikipedia's gender bias by identifying – and writing articles about – deserving female scientists. But does data contain its own bias?
Marie Curie is one of the most famous women in science. But her first page on Wikipedia was shared with her husband — until someone pointed out that, perhaps, her scientific contributions were notable enough to warrant her own biography.
Banning Alex Jones isn't the only thing YouTube is doing to stem conspiracy theories on its platform. The company recently began linking to Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica articles below some videos that cover subjects that are often muddied by misinformation.
Meet the editors who race to be the first to declare a famous person dead.
So for some years I have stuck almost entirely to correcting errors of fact in the entry about me. These were small matters where I, probably alone in the universe, knew the truth.
The Wikipedia community, the free encyclopedia that is built from a model of openly editable content, is notorious for its toxicity.
In the era of information wars, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee is working to keep the internet honest.
Sometimes it's nice to go down a good old Wikipedia rabbit hole. You usually don't plan on doing it, but one minute you're watching The Crown, and the next thing you know you're knee deep in information about Zara Phillips' equestrian career.
Editors on Wikipedia, the site relied on by the Masters of the Universe for reliable and accurate information, have added President Trump to a list of advocates for the "white genocide conspiracy theory" due to his recent tweets about South Africa farm attacks and government land expropriation.
The online encyclopedia's openness has protected it, but a more concerted effort to interfere could turn that strength into a weakness.
Croatian Wikipedia has again amended its entry on the World War II concentration camp at Jasenovac – naming it a 'collection' and 'labour camp' and again disputing the broadly accepted name-by-name list of victims.
One of the things that I liked about the idea of doing this was that it's really easy to raise the profile of any artist or composer," Roche says. "You see someone has a Wikipedia profile and you take them more seriously.
Peter Dinklage has defended himself against a "whitewashing" backlash over his latest role, saying his critics have used incorrect information from Wikipedia as the basis for their claims.
It has been the butt of jokes for years, but the online encyclopedia represents mankind at its very best.
The items in the Museu Nacional in Rio may be gone, but Wikipedia doesn't want them to be forgotten.
New Zealand's first travelling Wikimedian Mike Dickison is leading a team of volunteers to build a community of Wikipedia editors in New Zealand.
Users had planted libellous material on his page to incite hate and religious intolerance. The changes made to Mazari's profile, however, included changing her name to "Shireen Mazari (aka Lady Taliban)" and changing her profile image to the villainous Ursula from The Little Mermaid.
Prior to the fire, Wikimedia Commons––a repository of public domain media which is uploaded, catalogued and curated by the same volunteer editors who write Wikipedia's articles––had a little over 200 images from the National Museum. Most of those were uploaded in 2015 by a user whose username is Dornicke. Now, they have thousands.
Had you noticed that Tate's website now no longer features its own biographical entries for artists, but simply takes text from Wikipedia?
The museum does 'not have the resources to create biographies for every individual' in its collection, spokeswoman says.
The site was seemingly hacked by an eager fan who is desperate for the 67-year-old Hollywood actress to be crowned this season's champ.
The online encyclopedia is a lopsided representation of the world. Should it break its non-profit taboo?
Up to 20 million artifacts are thought to have been destroyed in a fire that ravaged Brazil's National Museum in Rio de Janeiro last week. While those priceless items can never be recovered, Wikipedia is doing its part to preserve their memory in an online museum of sorts.
After Articles 11 and 13 — the link tax and piracy filter requirements– were revised, the lawmakers passed the copyright law 438 to 226 on September 12. The passage of the law generated harsh criticism from Reddit and the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia.
Duns and other critics, however, also think that some parts of Pilgrim Spy that provide background context are based on sizeable chunks of Wikipedia that have been copied almost verbatim without acknowledgement.
Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid finally has a Wikipedia page to his name. His appearance on the fifth most visited website in the world comes two years after his peers... Despite three of them coming into the news around the same time in 2016, why was Umar Khalid's Wikipedia page created only now?
Between 7 and 11% of prominent chemists, both living and dead, are women. That's according to the worldview represented on Wikipedia, anyway. Compared with employment and degree statistics for chemists today, these figures, extracted from the online encyclopedia, are low.
Last Monday, The Art Newspaper picked up a story broken a few days earlier by art historian Bendor Grosvenor, who noticed that Tate's online biographies for artists are now often literal Wikipedia entries.
The Dubliner got a good laugh when he realised that somebody changed details about himself on the page to say he was an "ardent supporter of Mayo GAA despite his Dublin roots".
The story of one of New Zealand's most celebrated leaders for social justice will reach more people around the world today - thanks to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is the place where we turn for information on topics large and small. And speaking of small, there's currently a heated debate going on about whether to include the president's penis on the Wikipedia page for the Nintendo character known as Toad. What a time to be alive.
After the Houston Texans dropped its third game in a row Sunday against the New York Giants, one person rubbed dirt on the wound by editing the team's Wikipedia page to call them 'an alleged' professional football franchise.
Amazon Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant used in devices including the Echo and Echo Dot, often recites information from online, crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia when asked to define a word or phrase, or to give some context on a topic.
Amazon has donated $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment, a fund that keeps the online encyclopedia Wikipedia running.
Someone on Capitol Hill, operating from a congressional IP address, decided to update Wikipedia to include an entry for '* 'Devil's Triangle', a popular drinking game enjoyed by friends of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.'
Three U.S. Senators were 'doxed' when an anonymous Wikipedia user edited the Republican lawmakers' pages, adding in phone numbers and home addresses. The information was quickly removed and aides contacted authorities. The doxing, done in a seemingly partisan fashion, took an increasingly caustic clash over Kavanaugh's nomination to its oddest front yet: the world of Wikipedia revision wars. The Wikipedia entries began circulating on Twitter thanks to an account called @congressedits, a social media 'accountability bot' that tracks edits to the online encyclopedia made from IP addresses assigned to the U.S. Capitol.
A Wikipedia article has become the centre of a dispute over the meaning of the phrase "devil's triangle" after Brett Kavanaugh's hearings at the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Personal information of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch were posted by an unknown person located in the House of Representatives on Thursday during the hearing of Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
During Thursday's emotional hearing with Brett Kavanaugh, the Wikipedia page for Devil's Triangle briefly changed to reflect the Supreme Court nominee's answer.
Most people have an intuitive sense that Wikipedia should not have an entry for Devil's Triangle that describes the 'drinking game enjoyed by friends of judge Brett Kavanaugh'—it just feels wrong for an encyclopedia. But why is it wrong?
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has rejected accusations that a member of her staff published the personal information of Republican senators Thursday on Wikipedia as they held a hearing on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Now more than 9 million URLs, on 22 Wikipedia sites, point to archived resources from the Wayback Machine and other web archive providers.
Carl Miller of the think tank Demos wrote for the New Statesman in August suggesting that a concerted Russian effort to subvert and bias Wikipedia is a real possibility that shouldn't be taken lightly.
The last thoughts on today's award are from Dr Amelle Zaïr from King's College London, who is a lecturer in advanced photonics and Dr Seirian Sumner, a behavioural ecologist and co-founder of Soapbox Science, ... Sumner says the fact that Strickland's Wikipedia page has only appeared today is telling.'It took a Nobel prize for Donna Strickland to be noticed enough to have a (short) Wikipedia page written about her. Another example of how womens' contributions to science go unnoticed and uncelebrated,' she says. 'It takes the science equivalent of an Oscar for a woman in Stem [science, technology engineering and mathematics] to get noticed!'
Today, optical physicist Donna Strickland received the Nobel Prize for her work on ultrashort lasers. As recently as May, Wikipedia editors weren't convinced that Strickland's work was significantly covered enough to merit an article on the site.
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Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart can't be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, "due to its unreliability."
The Internet Archive's broken link archiving could prove especially important in terms of Wikipedia's fact-checking capacity on YouTube. Earlier this year, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced (without warning Wikipedia) that the site would provide links to Wikipedia articles on videos that have content related to conspiracy theories, a prevalent issue on the site.
In 2001, Wikipedia erupted. It was the dumbest idea in history - that unknown amateurs anywhere in the world could write a reliable and useful encyclopedia with little supervision.
Wikipedia has long suffered from a broken link problem as old, referenced pages go offline. But luckily, stewards from the Internet Archive have been slowly resurrecting those millions of faulty links, using a software robot to replace 404'd pages with archived versions using the Wayback Machine.
The online encyclopedia's editors have long been encouraged to provide links to web-based sources. But the details can be lost if the third-party sites close or update their pages.
Back in May, Wikipedia rejected an entry on optical physicist Donna Strickland because she wasn't famous enough. Yesterday, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics. .... A scroll through the history tab of Strickland's page, which records the progress of her recognition in real time, 'feels like a metaphor for a historic award process that has long been criticized for neglecting women in its selection, and for the shortage of women's stories in the sciences at large,' says The Atlantic.
It has entries on the Radioactive Boy Scout, Oscar the death-predicting cat and the man with the longest beard in recorded history, but until yesterday, when Donna Strickland became the first woman for 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, Wikipedia wasn't convinced she merited her own page in the online encyclopedia.
In fact, Strickland was profoundly under-recognized prior to her Nobel Prize win. Some observers noted there wasn't even a Wikipedia entry about her until Tuesday morning.
Editors on Wikipedia voted last month to stop using Breitbart, the hyper-conservative website, "as a reference for facts" on the crowdsourced encyclopedia, according to a new report.
The Wayback Machine houses an archive of more than 338bn webpages, dating back to the very beginning of the world wide web. It can be difficult to manually search, so one Wikipedia contributor, Maximilian Doerr, created a program called IAbot (Internet Archive bot), which identified links that returned a 404 or 'page not found' error. Wikipedia community volunteer Stephen Balbach also played a crucial role in the project.
When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced the Nobel prize for physics this week, anyone wanting to find out more about one of the three winners would have drawn a blank on Wikipedia.
U.S. Capitol Police announced late Wednesday that a former junior Senate Democratic staffer has been arrested for allegedly posting private information about Republican senators on the Wikipedia Internet website.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Donna Strickland did not have a Wikipedia page until she became a Nobel laureate, and earlier attempts to write a page for her were rejected because she was not famous enough.
A man from Washington, D.C., has been accused of posting senators' private information on Wikipedia.
The Capitol Police arrested a 27-year-old former congressional staffer, who appears to have worked for a handful of Democrats on the Hill, for allegedly doxing Republican senators and editing their Wikipedia pages to include personal information, including their home addresses.
Wikipedia editors have had Breitbart News formally listed as an unreliable source, meaning it can not be cited for factual claims. Editors have responded by purging citations to Breitbart News throughout the online encyclopedia, a move no doubt designed in part to hurt Breitbart's search engine results ranking.
Wikipedia editors have voted to ban right-wing website Breitbart as a source of fact on any of its articles.
Back in March, someone tried to write a Wikipedia entry for one of the most important optical physicists on the planet, only to have their proposed entry deleted on May 23 by one of Wikipedia's volunteer editing crew because the "submission is about a person not yet shown to meet notability guidelines."
Her omission from the internet's encyclopedia prompted accusations of gender bias at Wikipedia, leading founder Jimmy Wales to conclude that the site "needs to change." But it's also a pointed lesson in the hazards of gender bias in media, and of the broader consequences of underrepresentation.
'She's a woman doing what many still consider men's work,' scientist says .... 'It's likely [Ms Strickland's] seminal contributions to science were not considered interesting enough because she's a woman doing what many still consider men's work,' said Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.
Despite Strickland's historic achievement, her biography was conspicuously absent from the world's fifth most popular website – Wikipedia. Her absence was not a mere oversight, but the product of systemic gender bias in the sciences, which trickles down to the encyclopaedia meant to provide "free access to the sum of all human knowledge".
Last week, Wikipedia hit the headlines after it was reported that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donna Strickland didn't have her own page until after her win. Back Home, a few dedicated Wikipedia editors are determined to close Wiki's gender Gap.
What does Tessy Thomas, the first woman to head a missile project in India, have in common with the late Justice Leila Seth, educator Mary Roy, hockey player Rani Rampal and weightlifter Yumnam Renu Bala Chanu? These women got a small mention on Wikipedia. Until recently.
As a biology professor who edits Wikipedia, Strickland's story did not surprise me: According to the Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, only 17 percent of the reference project's biographies were about women. What's more, I have seen the underlying dynamics of this gender gap play out in my undergraduate courses.
The popular online crowd-sourced encyclopedia was edited to suggest [U.S. Senator Susan] Collins voted to put 'attempted rapist' on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Wikipedia was quick to respond and removed the Nandamuri Balakrishna's death date from its page on the actor.
Wikipedia's popularity as an information source with everyone from grade-schoolers to those in their golden years, led Shane Greenstein, a professor of strategy at the Kellogg School, to investigate how faithfully Wikipedia adheres to a "neutral point of view."
A single capital letter has caused a lot of tension throughout this industry. After some debate, Wikipedia has decided to drop the capital S from "eSports," which was previously acceptable on the site.
It is true that Wikipedia has a problem if Donna Strickland, an accomplished physicist, is considered worthy of a page only when she receives the highest possible recognition in her field. But this problem reflects a far more consequential and intractable problem in the real world.
Thirteen new articles about women from the Isle of Skye have been added to Wikipedia to mark 100 years of women's suffrage
It may seem counterintuitive, but it's possible for trolling to reach an art form — think subtle and even sublime — especially when it happens via Wikipedia, the internet's open-source encyclopedia.
According to Factiva, no one in the mainstream media had ever interviewed Donna Strickland about her research before this week. No one had even written about her research. If there is sexism afoot, it's not on Wikipedia. It's in the press itself.
Encouraged to contribute information for Tamil Wikipedia for the past year, a secondary grade teacher from a government-aided school in Karaikudi, Pa Thendral said that such inputs are of great help for researchers and anyone can contribute to it.
Tyson Fury claims he was banned from Wikipedia after making changes to a page dedicated to Wladimir Klitschko.
When asked if the story was true, Fury told BT Sport: "Yes it is true, until I got banned from Wikipedia.
Beresford chose to focus his students on articles within the Soviet Union Wikipedia project, which includes many stubs and starts — Wikipedia articles that lack content and sources — that need beefing up. This pool of articles gives his students 1,642 pieces they could potentially edit and contribute to.
Often, multiple Wikipedia editors will disagree on certain changes to articles or policies. One of the main ways to officially resolve such disputes is the Requests for Comment (RfC) process. Quarreling editors will publicize their deliberation on a forum, where other Wikipedia editors will chime in and a neutral editor will make a final decision. Ideally, this should solve all issues. But a novel study by MIT researchers finds debilitating factors — such as excessive bickering and poorly worded arguments — have led to about one-third of RfCs going unresolved.
When editors disagree about an edit to be made on a Wikipedia article, they start by discussing it on the article's Talk page. When that doesn't result in a decision, they can open a Request for Comment (RfC). From there, any editor can choose a side or discuss the merits of whatever edit is up for discussion, and—in theory—come to an agreement.
On Nov. 3, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture at William & Mary organized a Wikistorm, a massive Wikipedia editing effort to add more pages about women to the site.
Wikipedian Mike Dickison types "Beverley Anne Holloway" into Google and hits enter. Only 10 minutes earlier, in this room among the compost bins at Wellington's Sustainability Trust, a volunteer editor pressed publish on a Wikipedia article she'd created about the New Zealand entomologist. Yet there it is, already at the top of Google's search results.
For all the shit Wikipedia gets for being an allegedly unreliable source, these moderators did a really fucking good job keeping Threatin off the site. And they did it eight months before the rest of the world had a clue.
...just as there's Wikipedia in French or German, why not prioritise articles about Asia to be in regional dialects to suit the reader; after all, English readers always have a page translation option. Enter Wikipedia Asian Month.
Declan Donnelly's Wikipedia page was edited by I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! viewers after his fellow host Holly Willoughby made a joke about his height.
The Association of Israeli Archivists has roundly condemned Wikimedia Israel, the local affiliate of the U.S. foundation that runs Wikipedia, for copying into its photo archive 28,000 photographs taken in pre-state Israel.
It turns out that somebody has been amending Hegerty's Wikipedia page to add in the existence of a husband who may or not walk this earth.
If you use an iPhone to ask Siri how old Donald Trump is, you'll be greeted with a picture of a penis instead of a photo of the President. At the time of writing, the penis picture keeps coming and going. Presumably, someone is editing the Wikipedia page associated with Donald Trump, or gaming the algorithm that Siri uses to source images.
I was inundated with abusive messages attacking me for editing Wikipedia under a pseudonym, or running a massive operation of others doing so, or of paying for such a task (the claims varied and were never very coherent).
It is far from the first time that Wikipedia has been used to make voice assistants like Siri read out questionable information. Last year, when Burger King ran a campaign that forced people's Google Home assistants to start talking, somebody edited the Whopper's Wikipedia page so that it said the burger contained "cyanide" and is "the worst hamburger product" it has ever made.
A few rogue Wikipedia editors may have caused Siri to show a lewd image when asked about Donald Trump during Thanksgiving.
Usually, the main image of the president on his Wikipedia page shows him smiling against a backdrop of the American flag, in an official White House portrait. But on Thursday, iPhone users who asked Apple's virtual assistant, Siri, the president's age were met with a graphic image of a man's genitalia, an English Wikipedia Administrator who asked to be identified by his username TheSandDoctor, confirmed to Newsweek.
In the grand library of the Auckland War Memorial Museum on a Saturday morning in August, a small group of new and slightly nervous Wikipedia editors gather for a day of training that will arm them to tackle New Zealand's lacklustre representation on the crowdsourced online encyclopedia.
In the escalating battle of tackle-terrorism, Trump's Wikipedia page has been hit at least five times, and the attackers have got increasingly sophisticated at smuggling the skin flute onto the page without arousing suspicion.
Apple's Siri, which draws information from Wikipedia, was then drawn into the debacle and began showing people a penis when they asked: 'Who is Donald Trump?'
Wikimedia Israel, the local branch of online free information service Wikipedia, has published some 28,000 pre-Israel photographs taken in and around the region which would eventually become the Jewish state.
Ever wonder what the "A" in Stephen A. Smith stands for? Well, if you Googled it on Friday, you may have found a funny answer. Thanks to Sports Illustrated's Jimmy Traina for spotting Smith's updated Wikipedia page where somebody did quite a number:
At the Parliament of the World's Religions conference in Toronto on Saturday — an interfaith gathering that attracted thousands — Hartung and other organizers held a workshop where they asked participants to brainstorm women they think should be added. They also encouraged them to become Wikipedia editors themselves.
Using Wikipedia as a case study, this article argues that everyone engaging with internet health information has ethical responsibilities. Those hosting and writing for health websites should ensure that information is evidence based, accurate, up to date, and readable and be transparent about conflicts of interest.
As Wikipedia becomes more powerful, it's facing a new vandalism problem. In recent weeks, the user-moderated online encyclopedia has experienced a string of rogue edits, most infamously when a user changed Donald Trump's lead picture to an image of a penis, an attack that was repeated for days afterwards.
Google will identify relevant Wikipedia articles that are only available in English and translate them into Bahasa Indonesia using its AI-powered neural machine translation system.
If you check out Kamm's own Wiki entry you'll see that it carries a health warning. "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require clean-up to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view." Who on earth could this be referring to?
Russia's Interior Ministry (MVD) has tried but failed to purge from Wikipedia reports that Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev possibly broke the law over the weekend by attending United Russia's annual congress.
And guess what, Wikipedia actually obliged. Within hours of release of DNA's video interview, Sara's date of birth was changed on her Wikipedia page. Now isn't this amazing!
The Wikipedia page for NRG Stadium, where the Houston Texans play, listed the owner as "T. Y. Hilton" for part of Monday.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said he was frustrated that he couldn't edit his Wikipedia page after ranting that the Southern Poverty Law Center stirs up "hate." (It doesn't.)
Hours before results were officially declared, Rajasthan's new CM was announced on Wikipedia.
What can we do? Like Jess Wade, a physicist and Wikipedia editor writing reams of pages for women in Stem, the Women's Classical Committee is looking to counteract the stranglehold men exert over English-language Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has proposed Kamal Nath as Chief minister of the Madhya Pradesh state without proper evidence.
In case you're having trouble keeping track of the criminal status of various associates to President Trump, Wikipedia is, as always, here to help.
Understanding the online encyclopedia's motivations to go nuclear requires a brief history lesson. Wikipedia's open platform has been challenged by vandalism since its founding in 2001. The bad edits range from the humorous (for example, suggesting actor Jeremy Renner is a velociraptor) to more serious (like the Siegenthaler biography incident).
There was a curious change to the Wikipedia page of U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows last week, just after reports surfaced that President Donald Trump was considering the Florida native and North Carolina Republican for his chief of staff.
Wkipedia is now so good that we don't tend to think about how good it is. It's just there, and it feels as if it's always been there. "Oh yes, the vast free repository of human knowledge, what about it?" But Wikipedia is remarkable. Astonishing, really. It's built on a model that exists almost nowhere else online. It's like nothing else in existence. And it gives us a bit of insight into how we might reform other platforms, even society itself.
Technology giants rely heavily on Wikipedia's extensive database to source information for their platforms. So it's only fair that they show interest in the long-term sustainability of the online encyclopedia.
To help ensure that the initial information web searchers encounter is up-to-date and accurate, NIOSH has been working since 2012 to expand and update occupational health and safety content on Wikipedia—a site for which users write entries and rigorously edit each other's work.