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Wikipedia

Illustration featuring Wikipedia’s globe puzzle logo, stylized text fragments reading “WIKI,” and an abstract human head filled with geometric shapes—suggesting the transformation of human knowledge into machine-readable form.

Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit.

Wikipedia has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid conversations with Observer, two Wikimedia executives explain why ChatGPT and its competitors can’t function without Wikipedia—and why that dependence might destroy it.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Editors on Wikipedia Don’t Believe NFTs Count As Art

Crypto artists are speaking out on social media in protest.
By Helen Holmes

National Museum of Women in the Arts to Host Wiki Edit-a-thon Focused on Women of Color

The National Museum of Women in the Arts has held a Wikipedia edit-a-thon every year since 2014. This year, it goes virtual and focuses on correcting disparities in its own collection.
By Karen Chernick

Elon Musk Says His Wikipedia Page Is ‘Insanely’ Inaccurate

By Sissi Cao

This Fourth of July, Wikipedia’s Founder Wants You to Boycott Social Media

By Gabriela Barkho

Physicist Donna Strickland Had to Win a Nobel Prize to Get on Wikipedia

By John Bonazzo
Missoula Independent

Montana Alt-Weekly Shutdown Mirrors Demise of NYC Media Outlets

By John Bonazzo
A massive fire engulfs the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro.

Wikipedia Has Received Thousands of Images for Their Archive of Brazil’s Museum Fire Losses

By Clayton Schuster

This Company Wants to Put a Record of Human Civilization on the Moon

By Neel V. Patel

Why Each Myers-Briggs Type Is Mad at You

By Heidi Priebe
Is Wikipedia right about the Daily Mail?

YouTube’s Wikipedia Partnership Doesn’t Solve Either Site’s Fact Checking Issues

By John Bonazzo
Neil deGrasse Tyson will interview up-and-coming tech titans on Facebook Watch.

10 Facebook Watch Shows That Are Perfect for Tech and Science Geeks

By John Bonazzo
Don't bet your money on that.

Wikipedia Thought Australian $100 Bills Were Called ‘Jolly Green Giants’

By John Bonazzo
Copies of the "One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopaedia" are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16, 2008. The volume is made up of 50,000 of the most-searched terms on the German language edition of Wikipedia, and represents the first print version of the now-famous online encyclopaedia. Turkey is guest of honour at the 60th edition of the book fair, which takes place from October 15 to 19, 2008. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkey Can’t Block This Copy of Wikipedia

By Brady Dale
In this picture taken on July 22, 2012, Afghan women use computers at the Young Women For Change internet cafe, Afghanistan's first women-only net cafe, in Kabul. Ten years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned modern technology as un-Islamic, social media in Afghanistan are booming as politicians, warlords -- even the militants themselves -- rush to get their message across.

Wikipedia Is Not Free in Nepal Because of a Cellphone Company

By Brady Dale
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

This New Chrome Extension Makes Protesting Trump Easier Than Ever

By John Bonazzo
An Art+Feminism editing session in Stockholm.

Feminist Artists Combat Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance Through Editing Sessions

By John Bonazzo
Is Wikipedia right about the Daily Mail?

Wikipedia Bans the Daily Mail as a Source Because It’s ‘Unreliable’

By John Bonazzo
Is acupuncture real medicine? Wikipedia doesn't think so.

There’s a Major War Brewing Over the Acupuncture Wikipedia Page

By John Bonazzo
Is Wikipedia right about the Daily Mail?

How Wikipedia and Stuxnet Can Help Humans Prepare for the Future

By John Bonazzo
The Girlfriends team, Cassie and Sam Tarakjian and Ana Winger-G...

Wikisonnet Composes Poetry With Your Wikipedia Contributions

By Brady Dale
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to guests and supporters during a rally at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on April 20, 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana. There are 57 delegates at stake in Indianas May 3 primary.

Donald Trump Has a Bulkier Wikipedia Entry Than Either Presidents Bush or Obama

By Brady Dale
Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean Failed to Drop His Album on Time, Again—So Where Are the Jokes?

By Sage Lazzaro
The feud continues.

Taylor Swift’s Wikipedia Page Set to Admin-Only After Vandals Fill It With Kanye Jokes

By Sage Lazzaro
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