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India’s government challenged Wikipedia’s legal immunity as a tech platform on Tuesday, issuing a notice questioning whether the online encyclopedia should be reclassified as a publisher. The move follows Delhi High Court warnings to suspend Wikipedia’… Continue reading India Issues Notice To Wikipedia Over Concerns of Bias
The ‘down the rabbit hole’ online-search behaviors of nearly 500,000 people from 50 countries has shed new light on how mood, education level, gender, background and culture influence how we sate our curiosity and seek out new knowledge. So we ask: Are… Continue reading What your Wikipedia browsing style says about you
A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” From a report: The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest… Continue reading The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
Jules Roscoe reports via 404 Media: Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but which conveniently has been edited to omit things that could cast the Russian government in poor… Continue reading Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: For 20 years, a loosely organized group of Wikipedia editors toiled away curating a collection of 15,000 articles on a single subject: the roads and highways of the United States. Despite minor disagree… Continue reading Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads
Researchers document the Wiki-Slack attack, a new technique that uses modified Wikipedia pages to target end users on Slack.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is remarkably transparent. Continue reading Elon Musk Still Doesn’t Understand How Wikipedia Works
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Twitter’s long history of fighting Turkish censorship has ended with Musk. Continue reading Free Speech Warrior Elon Musk Weaker on Government Censorship Than the Twitter Execs He Fired
Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says. From a report: Rebecca MacKinnon, of the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the website, says it would “violate our commitment to collect minima… Continue reading Wikipedia Will Not Perform Online Safety Bill Age Checks